In the kitchen with Elise

This blog is made solely to help you better your cooking skills, techniques and come up with new creative ideas in making well, anything in the kitchen. There are many emails I receive from blog viewers world wide sharing their cooking experiences on how they have grown and developed in the cooking field by simply reading my blog posts and actually putting it into practice. Not just looking at all the pictures and thinking "wow what a creative idea", or "mmmm…. that looks so yummy". These people are actually reading the posts and getting to work and improving their skills. Thats why they are actually improving, bettering their skills, adding another talent to their board and adding health to their bodies with the consumption of home cooked delicious meals made from scratch at home rather than purchased pre made or pre frozen, pre-cooked or pre- whatever you want to call it  imitations of food . Here are 3 of my blog viewers who made a delicious something and ema...

Just rinsing off your fresh fruits and vegetables with water will not do the job. Just like taking a shower with only water won't clean you up you need to use soap right??? The same with your fruits and vegetables. But you shouldn't use soap. You should use 'veggie wash' which is a type of soap like formula made from acidic fruits just for fresh produce. It cleans away all the  dirt. For instance I washed my grapes in plain water and then I used this veggie wash and washed it again just to see if it was still dirty and look… Still really nasty and dirty. Now imagine if you weren't using this veggie wash? Check it out and buy it at your local grocery store. It could be under another name if you are in another Country but the concept remains the same. Washes away dirt and germs from fresh produce and is made with citric acids. From my kitchen to yours Elise

Kale, is a really healthy vegetable that is really versatile to use. You can have it raw in your salad, in your sandwich in the place of lettuce, in your sautées, soups or whatever else. I tried it all of these ways; and honestly whether cooked or raw it tastes great to me. Kale is a much better option to use in the place of your lettuce in your sandwich because lettuce is not really doing anything to you… I mean yea, its better to use lettuce than to not use any at all because after all it  is a vegetable but.  'The greener the vegetable the better it is for you' Having a choice between lettuce and kale or something else like spinach. that would be the better choice in any situation. So remember this line above ' the greener the vegetable the better it is for you ' and try to incorporate that into your lifestyle.  By adding fresh kale to your sandwich, it brings on a whole new flavor to your ordinary turkey sandwich or whatever sandwich you make ...