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Welcome to LCK’s Cooking Well, featuring information and tips on ingredients, planning, cooking, and other culinary-related tidbits – all part of an endeavor to prepare delicious, enjoyable meals that also support better health and well-being.

 

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6 Tips for Working With Chocolate

6 Tips for Working With Chocolate

Chocolate… it’s a favorite of many, signifying all things delightfully special, and decadent! Whether in its simplest form or in a more complex dessert, chocolate is a versatile ingredient. Use it as the main attraction, a complimentary ingredient, or used as a...

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Bloom Your Spices to Extract More Flavor

Bloom Your Spices to Extract More Flavor

 Why is it that the flavors of some dishes come through so deliciously while others seem flat? Using a simple technique to extract more flavor from spices may be the answer.   Either through reading my posts or attending my classes, you may recall that I strongly...

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Multiple Use Mindset for Dinner Planning

Multiple Use Mindset for Dinner Planning

DINNER PLANNING TIP: Get in the “multiple use” mindset. Make the most of the ingredients purchased, limit food waste, and ease meal prep by using raw and cooked ingredients in multiple ways each week.   We’ve all had it happen. We purchase that lovely bunch of fresh...

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Did you Know that Herbs can be Brain-Boosters?

Did you Know that Herbs can be Brain-Boosters?

Did you know that herbs are brain boosters? Not only are they wonderful for flavoring recipes, but they also contain nutrients that support brain health and wellbeing.    I love translating nutritional information that I read and research to my hands-on cooking...

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