Recipes

The earliest known written recipes have been found as long ago as 1730 B.C. So even back then, people were saving great recipes to create (and recreate) the perfect meal. Cooking techniques have changed significantly throughout the years, but recipe books will always be useful. They increase your ability to make and save recipes, making cooking more enjoyable for everyone. Here are 8 cookbooks that will help you add a bit of spice to your kitchen routine.

Autumn is the time of the year when drinking a cup of hot tea or coffee under a thick blanket is especially tempting. Home-baked cakes and pastries can make your autumn tea and coffee breaks even more enjoyable, and if you think baking is time-consuming, take a look at our Amazon product selection. With the help of these baking mixes, fillings, and decorations you can cook the most delicious desserts easily and stress-free. We made collages that show the products and the results you can expect after using them, and we bet your mouth will start watering before you even get to the end of the list.

While everyone eats, it doesn’t mean that everyone is capable of creating their own meals or meals for anyone else. For example, someone with very low levels of patience won’t be able to create a meal that requires a lot of waiting time. Also, sometimes recipes are purposefully missing vital pieces of information, so people will mess them up. But it’s not only home cooks that have trouble preparing meals, but also restaurants who think they know better when they really don’t.

For most people, a wedding is a once-in-a-lifetime event that the newlyweds, especially the bride, want to make absolutely perfect. While some brides are tolerant of “little” mistakes and imperfections, others can be quite sensitive to things that seem insignificant to others. That’s why it’s sometimes hard to tell if our behavior is appropriate or not.

There are some very famous, popular foods, such as cheesecake and French fries, and we may assume it’s obvious where they came from. But we often forget that the name doesn’t always accurately portray the origin of something. Also, immigrants have always carried their unique recipes with them, giving them away to the country they landed in. This means that even though something may be popular in one country, it very well could have originated somewhere else.

Many of us like to cook. We look for unusual recipes and try to recreate them. However, when we go to a restaurant and compare our homemade dishes with those made by professionals, we realize that our dishes surely are missing something.

Most parents cook but not all of them can make tasty meals and some moms and dads fail in their attempts to cook something yummy over and over again. Children might not even notice this if they are used to it, but when they grow older, they usually start to suspect something.

Pumpkin is a fruit, and a really impressive one. Just one cup of mashed pumpkin will provide you with 2.5 times more vitamin A than the recommended daily amount. And there are many delicious meals you can make with it to enjoy all of its benefits. Someone even went as far as to make a pumpkin pie that weighed 1,678 kilos!

Americans eat more than 10 billion bowls of soup each year. Just one dose of this warm potion is packed with healthy nutrients that can do wonders for your body and soul. It makes for quick and easy comfort food that can support your well-being in a number of different ways.

Edible gardens have become a trendy thing to do in recent years, and because you don’t need a large amount of land to grow your own vegetables, this hobby has spread throughout the world. In many cities home rooftops have been converted into small-scale fruit and vegetable orchards. It seems that this initiative is appealing to everyone, and clearly celebrities were no exception. Actors like Julia Roberts, Jennifer Garner, and Natalie Portman, among others, have shared pictures of their crops on their social media, but for some it goes beyond a regular hobby. Jack Gyllenhaal is one activist who is eager to share his passion for sustainable food.

Even before taking the first bite, we taste with our eyes. And Fiona Afshar, a home cook from Malibu, California is fully aware of that, so her dishes are almost too pretty to be eaten. She is an inventive pasta enthusiast who creates vibrant colored pasta in a variety of shapes and sizes. On her Instagram page, Cooking with Fiona, she posts her artistic creations, from farfalle or rigatoni, to more ingenious and playful ones like candies, flowers, or ice cream cones. All of them look truly mouth-watering.

I love spending time in the kitchen, but I was never going to become a professional chef. However, I did want to cook tasty and beautiful dishes, try more new recipes, and learn some cool kitchen hacks from real cooking masters. I read books, watched tutorials from famous chefs, and ended up attending high-end cooking classes.

For some people, cooking isn’t just an everyday duty, but an opportunity to reveal their creative and culinary talents. They know that if you want to make an ordinary dish unique, you have to add a pinch of creativity. For example, it’s easy to transform a simple focaccia into a blooming field. Or to go further and do the impossible — make a delicious cake for your loved one. Or you can just go to the kitchen and make dinner for your family for the first time and surprise everyone with it.

If you compare a ground hamburger patty and a portion of cooked spinach of the same weight, you’ll be surprised to learn that spinach will contain almost twice as much iron as the patty. The high level of iron is not the only fact that makes spinach worthy of being called a “superfood.” It turns out that spinach can make your body healthier and stronger in many ways, from helping your skin glow to improving your digestion.

The proverb “Necessity is the mother of invention” perfectly describes the situation when it comes to determining the origins of some recipes. They were invented in different parts of the world thanks to the ingenuity of ordinary people. And although common people had to cook their dishes from just a narrow range of available products, the final results turned out pretty good from time to time, and some of these recipes are still used nowadays.

Today we want to talk about a type of food that can be prepared with oil, water, or simply hot air. It has several flavors: natural, buttery, caramel, and chocolate, among others. This snack food was once used as a hair ornament, and many love to devour it while watching a movie at home or at the cinema. If you’re reading this and think we’re talking about popcorn, you’re right!

Food culture has continued to evolve over time, but it seems like people in the past were very creative in merging different tastes and creating different shapes of food. We will reveal some of their favorite delicacies and recipes to show you that unthinkable dishes were actually considered edible back in those days.

Many women like homemade facial and body masks and scrubs. There are millions of recipes on the internet, but you have to know which products are safe and which ingredients are really dangerous and can lead to inflammation and other unpleasant symptoms.

Open your fridge and see what you have in there. There is a chance you’ll find withering vegetables, milk of dubious freshness, or seemingly empty sauce packages. You might be tempted to throw them all out, but before you do, consider saving your food and turning the leftovers into a delicious meal.

You have probably seen crooked ginger root at the supermarket and not known what to do with it. But its useful medicinal properties have been well-known since ancient times. It’s a source of vitamins, micronutrients, and essential oils that have strengthening, invigorating, and anti-inflammatory effects on the body.

You don’t have to take tons of pills to be healthy. All you really need to do is fill your blender with delicious ingredients, and you’ll get exactly what you need every day.

Today Bright Side has put together a list of the very best homemade drinks recipes that will help you get healthier and slimmer and make you full of energy.

In our era of advanced technology and high-speed Internet connections, you can find information on virtually anything. In the space of just a few minutes, we can find recipes for the tastiest pie or learn all about the theory of wave-particle duality.

You decided to cook an exquisite dish, you followed the instructions strictly, keeping all the proportions correct according to the recipe...but the result is a million miles away from your expectations. Does this sound familiar? We’re sure that all of us have faced this situation at one time or another. So what’s the deal? We at Bright Side have decided to go through some common cooking mistakes that may ruin the taste of your most favorite dish.