Tips from the Kitchen: How to Choose Fresh Fish!

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As a university student who has to do a lot of grocery shopping, I often find myself at a loss when it comes to the seafood aisle. Am I getting ripped off because they know I'm a student? Is the sale worth it? 

I stumbled upon this great article on Food52 on how to choose the freshest fish and thought it'd be great to share it with all of you!

Tips from the Kitchen: Umami - the lost fifth flavour?

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I'm sure many of us grew up learning the four different tastes: sweet, sour, bitter and salty. But in the recent couple of years, a new flavour is being recognized: umami. But what is it exactly?

Tips from the Kitchen: How to Eat Chicken Wings

Now, if anyone knows me, I will go to extreme lengths to not eat with my hands. So yes, that means I do not use my hands when I eat wings.

Buzzfeed recently released a gif-set on how to (properly) eat chicken wings which I am completely mind-blown about because I have never heard of this way! Unfortunatelly it does require a lot of hand work, so I'll stick with my fork but hey, this is definitely worth sharing!

Tips from the Kitchen: The Bread Code

Did you know the bread code tag actually tells you when the bread was baked?

via First Things

The colour of the code actually designates the day of the week on which a loaf of bread was baked.

Blue: Monday

Green: Tuesday

Red: Thursday

White: Friday

Yellow: Saturday

An easy way to remember is to use the alphabet. The colours run in alphabetical order so the earlier they appear in the alphabet, the earlier in the week the bread was baked.

Tips from the Kitchen: Three is Sweet!

Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating raw
Peppers with 4 bumps are firmer and hold better when cooking.

Just remember: "THREE IS SWEET"

via. Do it and How

Tips from the Kitchen: DIY Cupcake Frosting Colour Chart

Ever have trouble making that perfect colour for icing? Have no fear, these charts will help you!
The May issue of the Food Network Magazine has a neat cupcake icing colour chart.

These charts basically show you how to make lovely pastel frosting shades with a basic food colouring kit (red, yellow, blue and green)

via Food Network Magazine

Tips from the Kitchen: The Difference between Coffees

The lingo used to order a coffee drink is a whole language in itself. Here is a useful chart to help differentiate between all the coffees!

via. Like Cool

Tips from the Kitchen: When are Fruits/Veg/Herbs in Season?

A huge misconception when buying fruits, vegetables or herbs is that they are available year round. Yes, you will be able to find them in the store, but they may not be at their freshest. Seeing as we're university students and still learning on how to buy the freshest groceries possible, we thought we'd give a quick run-down on buying fresh fruits, vegetables and herbs. Stumbled upon these amazingly helpful charts that displays which fruits/veg/herbs are in season:

via. Chasing Delicious