welcome to spirit of cooking seattle's only cooking show featuring psychic cooks airing on channel seventy seven slash twenty three in seattle and seventy seven in everett and on the internet and see how community media dot your work today on our show we are going to discuss ways to extend your food budget and we would like to share them with you today so i want you to join us while we celebrate life love and good company if you would like to have a copy of our household tips spend just tips e mail us at cooking at a spirit of cooking t v dot com you can also download our e book for free at spirit of cooking t v dot com so let's get started because fall is here there's going to be an abundance of vegetables and people want to stock up on them so what we're going to do is show you some way to store the vegetables the ones that have been cutting up so that they can extend over  several weeks but before we do that i would like to get in to some of the books said i find they're really helpful in the kitchen the first mate is a kitchen companion and this is the ultimate guide to cooking in the kitchen and also talks about cooking where and you know how to start things and how to cut things best so that they look really well when you're serving them for your gas or for your family the next one and another favorite of mine is called the wonderful world of natural cookery and this has a whole lot of information and there if you're going to do a lot of organic cooking her i've tried many of her recipes her recipes have been very good and this book that's been printed in hundred seventy s has a lot of good information in there that you don't find in a cookbooks today because a cookbook stone where all they do to show you a bunch of recipes and pretty pictures now another one that i have here it's things you always hat must you stop frozen turkey in a refrigerator and then explain skew what you need to do and everyone should have a book like this now this is a little bit different and the companion one this will g recipes and how to cook things and how to put it together this answers your very basic questions about the different products you know how to to keep it when you get it when you get your  are bagels jewish now she says no although most people think of bagels as jewish food it's true polish and australian juice bought down to the united states it was a vietnamese baker who first conceived the if you go to some estate sales i'm sure you'll pick up a lot of different a lot of different tack cookbooks you know and they have some interesting illustrations janet just about everything you need to know to have a well run kitchen another book i found recently is called the silver palate cookbook now this was published nineteen seventy nine in a sense that these two authors and cooks own a restaurant in new york they have come out with another one called the basic cookbook and that has a lot of nice pictures and i'll show you some of the wonderful things and on this site they have some you know professional tips so secret trade say trade secrets near a lot of nice  pictures the thing that i found out with was cook's cookbooks on the market yes you can find which one the book that has been most helpful to me since i have tried to find different kinds of recipes i have a lot of books i went through the basic good housekeeping cookbook has of all and i have all the uses for a long time i put my recipes in here and it has nice pictures too  does explain a lot of things the pictures as you can tell are very old fashioned coloring but i have to get the idea of what the product looks like this is i think one of the best cookbooks out there and la that least if you really want to extend your budget you can make your own grocery groceries now there is another book out there because this one is make more of make your own groceries did i have it i don't know what happened to it might move but this is a very good book and if you're or have a lot of time on your hands or not so much time on your hands that's a real simple recipes and here for you to make and well more like i said it has shows you how to do many diagram in here and this has a lot of recipes on how to make things from scratch which if you like to buy things spices and that you could make curry sprite she could make a lot of different things so anyway these are some of the books that i use and i think that you would find a big enjoyment out of  container for eggs and if you have children that like eggs you could put you know eggs and here or maybe you could put sticks a salary or care and here and it would fit really nice in the corner of their backpack but i find that these are very very handy but now this one is a container that i pod actually it had a thing some little peanut butter crackers with cheese on it and after i entered the container is not this is really nice what do i do with that now i a couple or so i put my cell phone in there so if someone is calling i can you know i can see who it is and then turn it off or or just let it rain and i find that this is really handy because if you have it in your pocket to put my paper where to put my garbage and this is a perfect container it's also very clean and neat now i want to talk you out of plastic expression when it comes to story vegetables they're not a very  good product to use for your starting your vegetables so i will show you how to store gets the balls they will last for several weeks in a refrigerator so when you go to the store and you buy a week's worth of issuance you don't take them home and feel fakes because when they make cereal or crackers they want to be able to ship them and so when you open them they want them to be they want them to be fresh so that when you take your crackers up they each day for my night of salad or for my aches and i extended the pepper saw that it was nice and chris for approximately three weeks and i know that's really stretch it but what i do is i take a paper towel or a i don't eat a lot of radishes and they're a little bit while but if i decided to fry them up in butter they would still be edible and you will notice that as you get more sure you will get these little fight scenes here on the paper and so  bad in the refrigerator and stinks after trigger is i mean now i've been using this for a couple days actually it's probably been a week so what i do is i put paper towel in the bottom but i'm you know i'm here and you can see it accumulates open up to you know like disease or whatever i can get so i what i do it is i'll take my sisters and i cut off the bad stuff i don't wash them i just cut off anything that looks pretty bad because when you put something that looks really bad like that it goes all the the rest of them that shows so i mean sure that everything looks ok and if it looks ok and then i go ahead and start in the refrigerator so i think it's good to have these little leaves on here and the grocers nowadays say go ahead and bring the sour and they just slap the top off but like the lady i pricked my wrist told me today they come like that of vegetables this is a good way of doing it now i'm also taking these franks and cheese and i'm now with cheese when you put these in the fray it will keep the air out  it so now we've got this here i want to give you a few little things that i come across and i would like to mention to you so i pick up some trade secrets here and  gravel and you want it to be nice and tender let the meat rest for twenty minutes in the refrigerator then take it out then make your patties and then cook and be nice and tender so if you are our fresh herbs like from the salary you're going to be making a soup or one of the things that you want to do with your fresh herbs and put it in the last two minutes of cooking and then goes with garlic too because garlic has a tendency to get better and so no my last chapter is where you're making soup or stew and you have a lot of water in the soup or the stew the way to get it out is just don't add more meaning to it is to put it in an oven at two hundred fifty to seventy five for about fifteen minutes and then the extra water in there will evaporate and then your soup will be nice and thick and see that that's the thing about it kind of people put too much water and there and then and if you it is too dry then you can add a little bit water back but you have more control over it ok thank you where now that is our tips for today but i have one more tip and i think it's really important when you are cooking in a pam and saying like a chicken or pork chop or something like that and you want to be nice and tender you don't want to cook it real on ge pork chops because purchase of chicken don't take that long and sometimes if they get overcooked you know you don't want to overcome them so you want to last cocoa then this is what you need to keep the cooking process going to get keep them tender so i like you 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