When I think about the popular breakfast in North America, Europe and Brazil, I can’t ignore this food, French toast. French toast is made with bread and eggs. Milk is commonly added. According to what is popular in local cuisine, many of the spices that are added to bread or egg dishes are included in cooking. This versatile dish is often topped with sugar, butter, fruit, syrup, or other items. Moreover, there are many other names of this food depends on the location; i.e. “Eggy Bread” in England, “Rabanada” in Brazil, “pain doré” in Canada etc.

After I told you about some interesting fact about French toast, I’d like to tell you about the easy preparation of this food. Also, the first thing that you should know is the ingredients that some ingredients are added or not according to the local cuisine and whatever you like.

Kitchenware
- Frying pan
- Large Mixing Bowl
- Dish

Ingredients
- 4 slices white bread
- 4 eggs
- 4 tablespoons of milk
- Butter or Cooking Spray
- Salt
- Pepper

Preparation

1. Take the frying pan on the stove with the medium heat.
2. Add the butter (or cooking spray) and oil the frying pan.
3. Break 4 eggs into a mixing bowl. Add milk and salt and beat the eggs until you see it’s smooth.
4. Lower the heat a little bit.For the sliced bread, dip each slice into the bowl until they’re perfectly covered with the mixed eggs.
5. Place the sliced bread on the frying pan.
6. Cook until both sides are browned, the egg has cooked through and turn off the gas.
7. Place the cooked bread on a preparing dish.

You can serve with a variety of toppings, including jam, butter, peanut butter, honey, fruit syrup, apple sauce, beans, beef, lard, whipped cream, fruit, tomato sauce (when powdered sugar/sugar is not used), chocolate, sugar, yogurt, marmalade, bacon, cheese, gravy or various nuts such as pecans



French Toast in New York and in Jewish-American communities is a common to make it with challah. The richness of the sweet egg bread complements the richness of the French toast preparation. In many Jewish-American households it is traditional to use the leftover challah from Friday night Sabbath dinner to make French toast on Sunday morning. The slightly stale challah absorbs the egg or milk-and-egg mixture more readily and cooks into a custard-like center for the slices of French toast. In the Western and Southwestern United States, some restaurants will prepare it with Sourdough bread.

Vietnamese food is known for its common use of fresh herbs, fruits and vegetables. All blend are good for health. The Vietnamese also have a number of vegetarian dishes, influenced by Buddhist beliefs. The most common meats used in Vietnamese cuisine are pork, chicken, shrimp, cockles and various kinds of seafood. So, we can use Vietnam style for our sandwich.


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Let’s try the new different taste sandwich!!! I think you have never tasted before. This food is common everywhere in Vietnam as a favorite of factory workers and students. It’s a good chance for you to feel the Asian food, beginning with this dish, Vietnamese sandwich.

Kitchenware
- Knife
- Mixing bowl
- Dish

Ingredients
- 3/4 pound cooked chicken breast or pork tenderloin, sliced
- 1 − 16" long baguette
- 1 clove garlic, crushed
- 1/2 teaspoon five spice powder
- 1/2 cup fresh cilantro
- 1/2 cup sliced carrot
- 1/3 cup sliced white onion
- 1/4 cup rice wine vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 to 2 tablespoons jalapeno chilies
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
- 4 teaspoons low fat mayonnaise

Preparation

1. Using knife for squashing garlic and salt and take it into a mixing bowl.
2. Add vinegar and sugar into a bowl, stir the ingredients for dissolving.
3. Add peeled and grated carrots, thinly sliced onions and finely chopped chilies. Mix it and lay aside.
4. Slice baguette into four equal lengths horizontally. Fill mayonnaise over each piece.
5. Prepare the meat (whatever you like) on the four bottom pieces. Fill with lime juice and five spice powder.
6. Fill the carrot salad and a cilantro leaves. Cover with bread tops.

Apple is a popular fruit for that you can eat for your health and also have a Healthy Cook Recipe with the proverb "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." Apples are an important ingredient in many desserts such as apple pie, apple crumble, apple crisp and apple cake. They are often eaten baked or stewed, and they can also be dried and eaten or re-constituted for later use.


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If you find that there are many green apples in your refrigerator and you don’t know how to handle it, I suggest you to preserve them by making a pie. Moreover, you can bake a sugar free apple pie by following the early English recipe. But today I’m going to tell you how to make the basic apple pie.

Kitchenware
- 9−inch pie pan
- Large heavy saucepan
- Large mixing bowl and Small bowl
- Spatula

Ingredients

For Crust:
- 1/3 cup rolled oats
- 1 egg (white)
- 2 tablespoons chopped walnuts
- 6 graham crackers
- Buttered flavored vegetable cooking spray

For Filling:
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 1/4 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 cups apple cider
- 3 tablespoons cornstarch
- 5−6 large green apples (about 2 1/2 pounds)

Topping:
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1/3 cup rolled oats
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons chopped walnuts
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted

Preparation

1. Add the oats, graham crackers and walnuts until finely ground to an oven with the 350-degrees heat.
2. Add the egg white and blend them until dissolve.
3. Surface a pie pan with a cooking spray. Put the crumb mixture equally into the pie pan for the pie crust. Then, surface with cooking spray again.
4. Take it into the oven and bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. Take it off and wait until it ready to use.
5. Boil a cider in a large heavy saucepan over high heat. Cook about 15 minutes or until reduce to 1/2 cup.
6. Add the sugar, pumpkin pie spice, lemon juice, and vanilla to a large mixing bowl. Pour the mixture into the bowl.
7. Pare off the apples and cut into quarters. Remove the core and slice. Put the apples into the cider mixture and stir. Scatter the cornstarch over the apples and combine the mixture.
8. Prepare the apples in the crust. Also, mix the brown sugar, oats, cinnamon and walnuts together in a small bowl. Then, pour the melted butter into the bowl and mix them.
9. Scatter the topping over the apples, pat down with your hands and bake about 1 hour to 1 hour and 15 minutes at 350-degrees heat.

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Apples are also made into apple butter and apple jelly. They are also cooked in meat dishes. Compared Apple to many other fruits and vegetables, apples contain relatively low amounts of Vitamin C as well as several other antioxidant compounds. The fiber content, while less than in most other fruits, helps regulate bowel movements and may thus reduce the risk of colon cancer. They may also help with heart disease, weight loss and controlling cholesterol, as they do not have any cholesterol, have fiber, which reduces cholesterol by preventing reabsorption, and are bulky for their caloric content like most fruits and vegetables.

The important tool that most kitchen must use is knife. If you fastidious with choosing knife type or size of knife that you want to use with any food sources.

Sharp Knives For Sharp Cooks
By Andrea Flint

Learning how to cook is an asset and a survival skill. That is why home science is part of the education course for secondary school students where they learn how to cook, bake cakes, make curries and to sew housecoats, aprons, etc. One can also earn a living by working as a cook. To be a professional cook that gets hired in high end hotels in the kitchens, you need to go for 2 - 3 years of cooking course with much practices on the various recipes that are taught. There are also skills involved in cooking - not just any mere cooking by heating up the wok.





To cook a delicious chicken vegetables soup, you need to have a sharp knife to cut up the veges into smaller sizes for faster cooking and easier digestion. For example, carrots and potatoes can be cubed with a sharp knife seamlessly and effortlessly. The tomatoes can be sliced through in bigger portions to be added to the soup. It helps to have various sizes of knives for different veges - use small knives for onions, ginger, etc and medium sized knives for carrots, potatoes and tomatoes.

Cutting up a Whole Chicken

To cut up a whole chicken, you need bigger knives to slice though the bone edges, cartilage, meat, etc. Hence it is important to have a sharp knife when cooking. The knives can also be sharpened at home by using the appropriate knife sharpener. When you use sharp knives, it helps to speed up the preparation process and make it efficient for any housewife or professional cook in the kitchen.

Making the Soup

After cutting up the veges and chicken, it is time to put the chicken bones to the pot of water to boil for flavor. Alternatively, you can use a small cube of chicken stock to make it more delicious. When the water is boiling, you can then add in the pieces of cut up chicken and carrots first to soften them as they take a longer time to cook. When they are almost soft, then add in the potatoes and onions. Finally add in tomatoes, pepper and salt to taste. Bring them to a boil for a few minutes before serving. Chicken vegetable soup is nutritious and is easy to prepare - all you need is a sharp knife to do the job.

If you cook every day, it is wise to invest in a set of different sizes of sharp knives to help prepare food for cooking. These are must have utensils in the kitchen.

Andrea writes for a cooking accessories site where you can find knife sharpeners and other essentials for the home cook.