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In Cookware Headquarters, we do not only share unbiased cookware reviews, but also cookware cleaning tips, cookware maintenance tips, where to find best price on cookware and also healthy cookware recipes, how to tips for cooking and gatherings. Here are some sample of our recipes and how-to tips article to help you master the cookware and cooking.

Here are some samples of recipes, how to cooking tips, party tips and cookbooks that will help you cook easy and healthy recipes at home. You can see more recipes and cooking tips articles here: Cooking tips and Recipes Articles.

Recipes (Vegetarian and Vegan)

Christmas Chocoholic Cookies : Martha Stewart

How To Make Lemon Curd At Home

Baba Ganoush Recipe: Eggplant Dip

All About Pumpkin and Recipes

Learning About Tofu and Tofu Recipes

Fresh And Healthy Market Gazpacho

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All About Pumpkin and Recipes

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Pumpkin is gourd like squash and native to North America. They typically have a thick, orange or yellow shell, creased from the stem to the bottom, containing the seeds and pulp.

Where does the word Pumpkin Originates from?

According to Wikipedia, The word pumpkin originates from the word pepon which is Greek for “large melon”. The French adapted this word to pompon, which the British changed to pumpkion and later American colonists changed that to the word we use today, “pumpkin.

Pumpkin is Versatile

Pumpkin is actually fruit as it has seeds. Pumpkin comes in variety of colors such as orange, red, white, yellow and there has been some pumpkin patches have shown also grey, and green color pumpkin as well. Pumpkin can be very small or very large weighing  over 75 lbs in some… Continue reading

Learning About Tofu

Many people and chefs nowadays making many wonderful dishes based on tofu. However, tofu seems to be confusing for some, as one of my friend find is bland and gets confused about what type of tofu she should get. I thought, may be many you may have the same issue or wonder about it, so here is little tidbit about tofu to make life easier for all of us;

What is Tofu?

Tofu or bean curd is a food made by coagulating soy milk and then pressing the resulting curds into soft white blocks. It is part of East Asian and Southeast Asian cuisine such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Vietnamese, and others.[5] There are many different varieties of tofu, including fresh tofu and tofu that has been processed in some way. Tofu has a subtle flavor and can be… Continue reading

Gift of Gourmet Chocolate For Every Occasion

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Chocolate is loved by many adult and kids alike. There is something about melting chocolate in different flavors to taste. Like in the movie Forrest Gump said “Life is like a chocolate, you never know what you are going to get”. I remember as a child, tasting little bit of assorted chocolate box selection, until I found what I loved. Now as an adult, I still get to do that without anyone yelling me about it. LOL.

Recently I found Dan’s Chocolates and they makes fresh chocolates using a combination of European and American ingredients. Their  hand-made gourmet truffles feature fresh cream, fruits, and nuts for the most discerning chocolate connoisseur. Each of petite truffle has a thin, delicate shell surrounding an interior of creamy chocolate or ganache. They offer their premium quality chocolates in… Continue reading

Personal Chef for an Evening: Give Gift of Experience

Personal Chef for an Evening Experience Gift:

I will admit, I love gourmet meals and wine and good friends over. I do love cooking but worse part about hosting a gourmet party or tasting party is having to prepare ahead and having to clean up the mess after everyone’s gone. So, when I heard about this personal chef experience, I was all over it and I want to share it with you all about Personal Chef for an Evening.

Best Part About  Having Personal Chef for an Evening Experience:

Do you love the idea of entertaining, but hate the prospect of doing all the work? Does it seem like you never get to enjoy your own party? Let your own Personal Chef for the evening do all the work while you sit back with a cocktail and enjoy a… Continue reading

Vegan Dinner Party Recipes : Making Chickpea Appetizers for Vegan Dinner Recipes

If you are throwing a gathering at your place, you can make this easy chickpea appetizers at home. It will be loved by all, vegan, vegetarian, meat eaters and adults and kids alike. It is simple and easy to make and it has many nutrients and you can save money by making this at home compared to getting food catered.

Please see this video to see how easy it is to make and wow your party with amazing appetizer dish. A perfect Vegan Dinner Party Recipe to know.

For more Vegan Party recipes check out;

Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook The Happy Herbivore Cookbook: Over 175 Delicious Fat-Free and Low-Fat Vegan Recipes

 

Learn about how to make chickpea appetizers for a vegan dinner party with expert vegan cooking tips in this free vegan recipe video on throwing a vegan dinner party.

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 Cookware Reviews

Wok Guide: Everything You Wanted To Know About Wok

How I got started to Love and Cook in a Wok

When I was in college, me and my friends used to hang out at one place after classes that served great stir fry and spring rolls. Food was inexpensive enough for students, however when we started eating out almost every day, cost added up. Friend of mine and I decided to make same stir fry at home at fraction of cost. After making several failed attempts of making a stir fry in a frying pan, stainless steel pan, I bought a thin and inexpensive wok, it did not work as well as metal was too thin, I had no real patience of seasoning the wok.

Around that time I started watching “Yan can cook” in PBS cooking show and started to learn lot more about cooking Chinese food and… Continue reading

How To Season Your Carbon Steel Wok?

How to season your carbon steel Wok?

Wok are one of the best way to cook quick and healthy Asian stir fries at home. I love cooking in wok, if you like to see our wok guide to learn more about types of wok and what are best features to look for in traditional wok and electric wok, check out our wok guide here.

Best traditional woks are made of carbon steel material. What is a carbon steel? Carbon steel is usually rolled or hammered into tiny thin sheets of material. Material supposed to be strong and holds heat well enough. Hand hammered and double to triple ply woks are generally best quality.

You got the carbon steel Wok and love it, what is next step to season it? Let’s look at ways to season your carbon steel wok.… Continue reading

Rice Cooker Guide

Rice cooker Guide:

Rice cookers can date it existence from earliest of times as British Museum has a ceramic rice steamer dated to 1250 BC on display. Can you imagine that?

Japanese company Mitsubishi was the first one to make electric rice cooker in mid 1940s, it was basic set electric set up and not very user friendly. In mid 1950s Toshiba created first commercially successful rice cooker. It was a simple design, with rice pot was place in another larger pot with water in it, so outer post boiled the water rice was cooked.

Today rice cooker have changed a little bit, using similar ways of way using insulated outer pot to boil rice in inner pot. Many rice cooker inner bowls are non-stick type and Teflon type of material, making easy for rice not to stick at bottom.… Continue reading