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Kitchen Hacks You Wish You Should Have Known Before

When it comes to cooking, it is essential to know some cooking hacks at home that you can use to either speed up your cooking prep, keep your greens fresher for an extended period, and make the food tastier. While having your unique style in keeping things in your kitchen, it wouldn’t hurt to have a couple of useful hacks on hand, especially this coming holiday season. And besides, pulling up a recipe that eats a lot of time and needs considerable effort to complete can sometimes discouraging, so learning some kitchen hacks can be super useful.

Below we have listed some straightforward kitchen hacks that you are going to wish that you should have known earlier.

Hack #1 Use a paper towel to keep your greens fresh

There’s nothing more frustrating than seeing your greens wilting even after keeping it on your fridge. To make your greens last for an extended period, wrap them with a paper towel and place them in a plastic container. The paper towel is handy for absorbing excess moisture coming from your greens while the container prevents your greens from getting crushed.

Also read: Practical Cooking Tip: Vegetable Blanching

Hack #2 Use marshmallow to keep your brown sugar soft

For those who love to bake, keeping brown sugar soft at all times is quite challenging, especially if you don’t have the proper storage for it. To ensure that the sugar doesn’t harden, store it in an airtight container and put at least two pieces of marshmallow on top of it. You could also use a slice of bread as an excellent alternative to marshmallow. It will keep your sugar soft and ensure it doesn’t harden over time.

Hack #3 Use the oven for cooking hard boil eggs

If you haven’t mastered the boiling water method, then using the oven to cook hard boil eggs is an excellent alternative, especially if you have to boil a lot of eggs at the same time hard. To do this trick, heat the eggs in the oven for at least 30 minutes at 350 degrees. Then gently submerge the eggs in ice water for another 10 minutes.

Good read: 5 Reasons Why Instant Pot Is The Best Slow Cooker

Hack #4 Use a dry towel to dry your fish before cooking

To cook the fish perfectly can be tricky, especially if you want the browning to stand out. One way to get it right is by patting your fish dry using a paper towel before putting the fish on the hot pan. The paper towel removes the excess moisture from the fish that prevents it from browning. By getting rid of the wetness of your fish, it makes the browning to stand out much easier.

Hack #5 Use a plastic or metal container to peel garlic cloves quickly and easily

We all know that peeling garlic can be incredibly time-consuming, especially if you have to peel lots of it. To easily peel garlic gloves quickly, break the bulb of garlic into individual cloves, then place them into a plastic or metal container and vigorously shake the garlic. If cloves are still difficult to release, shake longer and more vigorously.

Knowing these simple yet straightforward kitchen hacks can be very useful. Try it and you’ll surely appreciate them.

Ali Mall Cubao Gets Poppin’ with Popeyes

Popeyes offers another mouthwatering treat as it brings its chicken goodness to Ali Mall Cubao.

Cubao foodies are set to welcome the year in the most delicious way as Popeyes introduces its world-famous Cajun flavors in one of the country’s busiest and highly-urbanized districts.

“With the overwhelming support that we received in our previous store openings, we believe that it is best to consistently come up with efforts that will bring the much loved Popeyes chicken closer to every Filipino. This time, in Alimall Cubao, an undeniably ideal location for our North diners,” said Ton Gatmaitan, the marketing director of Kuya J Group, the parent company of Popeyes in the Philippines, during the store’s opening.

A huge and excited crowd of foodies, along with some local celebrities, came to witness the opening of the latest and Instagrammable Popeyes store. They all enjoyed the fast food’s well-loved and distinctly tasteful signature juicy — but not greasy — fried chicken. It’s packed with distinct Cajun-inspired flavors from Louisiana, USA and it can taste even better when paired with a dash of honey making a sweet and savory combination.

The north squad also enjoyed sinfully delectable meals with Popeyes’ must-try menu items like the iconic honey biscuits, fish and shrimp burgers, and Cajun fries. There were also other savory delights such as the hazelnut and white chocolate biscuits, and the Popeyes spaghetti, which is exclusive to Popeyes’ branches in the Philippines.

To learn more, visit the website at www.popeyes.ph or follow them on Facebook www.facebook.com/popeyesph, and Instagram www.instagram.com/popeyesph.

WarnerMedia and TotallyAwesome Team Up in the Philippines

Advertisers now have access to both companies’ kid-safe advertising platforms

TotallyAwesome has announced a collaboration with WarnerMedia Entertainment Networks in the Philippines. This agreement gives advertisers, for the very first time, access to both companies’ advertising platforms through a unified kids-safe advertising proposition.

TotallyAwesome provides hundreds of kids’ brands with a safe avenue to interact with their audience. This includes its kids-safe marketplace AwesomeAds, which reaches 170 million kids across Asia Pacific every month.

WarnerMedia’s Boomerang and Cartoon Network are two of the most recognized kids’ entertainment brands in the world. And in the Philippines, WarnerMedia recognises the rising trend of children consuming content online, and is committed to providing kids-safe content through its own platforms, as well as through this collaboration.

TotallyAwesome’s CEO Quan Nguyen said: “Both TotallyAwesome and WarnerMedia in Asia Pacific are committed to making the internet safer for kids. We’re pleased to work together to provide this unique digital advertising solution to advertisers in the Philippines.”

The emergence of stricter global standards and guidelines has made advertisers to completely rethink their digital marketing strategies to use zero-data collection platforms such as AwesomeAds offered by TotallyAwesome. TotallyAwesome´s relationship with WarnerMedia means advertisers in the Philippines can reach kids – in a safe way – on Cartoon Network and Boomerang platforms.

Awantika Sood, WarnerMedia’s Kids and Entertainment ad-sales lead in Southeast Asia, added, “As children consume more and more digital content, the need to present an omni-channel, brand-safe solution to our advertising partners is very important to us. Adding to WarnerMedia’s own capabilities, our collaboration with TotallyAwesome platforms is a strategic move as it provides advertisers in the Philippines a one-stop shop to reach kids in quality and safe environments across linear, digital and social platforms. We look forward to a fantastic collaboration with TotallyAwesome.”