Guest Post: 10 Tips to Make Food Taste Good

The Delicious Bytes girl is in the middle of 2 straight weeks of 13 hour opera rehearsal days (with the exception of Thanksgiving Day off to SLEEP and BE QUIET), so needless to say, the poor bloggie has been a little lonely. I look forward to blogging again soon, maybe from Texas in a week! Perhaps some Tex Mex is in my blog future? Anyone know of a fabulous eatery in San Antonio I should try?

Anyhow, it was a blessing to be contacted by Cindy Cullen, creator of www.CulinaryArtsCollege.org, about writing a guest post! I hope you all enjoy it! I think her website is important, and I wonder if my cousin used it when she was applying to culinary school recently. If I had known about Cindy's website back then, I most definitely would have shared it!

Enjoy, and have a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday!

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10 Tips To Make Food Taste Better

The trouble with food is that it has to taste good or we’re not likely to eat too much of it; and the irony of it all is that the foods that taste best are the ones that are bad for health, which promote obesity and which bring on a host of ills. Now this begs the question - is it possible to strike a balance between taste and goodness? The answer of course is in the affirmative; we don’t have to compromise our taste buds in order to boost well being. So how do you go about making food taste good even as you ensure that you don’t sell your health short?

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1. Don’t take short cuts to cooking food – when you try to hasten the process, you either botch things up or compromise on the taste.
2. Adding salt and other additives like MSG to heighten the taste of a dish are temporary measures that cannot be sustained for every meal or in the long run, so if you’re using them to enhance taste, desist from doing so.
3. Know a few tricks that help you effect damage control in the kitchen – for example, if a dish turns out to have too much salt, add a diced potato to absorb the excess salt. You can remove the spud once the broth or gravy is ready.
4. Know how to serve up a good-looking dish – when it looks good, you believe it will taste good, and the psychological suggestion really works.
5. Similarly, work on bringing out the aroma of food – when it smells good, it entices your taste buds and allows you to relish your food. This is why you feel that food tastes like sawdust when you’re down with a bad cold and a blocked nose.
6. A recent study has found that if you work hard for your food, it tends to taste better than ever before. So don’t just laze around and microwave a TV dinner; get down to cooking full meals that satisfy your body and soul.
7. Eat slowly and savor every bite and every mouthful – when you gorge your food, you’re not allowing your taste buds to enjoy the experience.
8. Don’t drown your food in ketchup and other condiments – everything starts to taste the same and sooner or later, you cannot eat anything without the sauces.
9. Avoid smoking before meals – cigarettes burn your taste buds and leave you with no taste at all, and if you’re a heavy and continuous smoker, you could end up having to eat bland and tasteless food no matter how delicious it is.
10. Forget the bottle – prolonged use or abuse of alcohol kills your taste buds and makes you feel like everything could do with a little spice or salt. You compound the problem if you’re used to eating spicy or salty food to complement the alcohol.

So there you have it – ten simple ways to make your food taste better; the next time you think your meal is bland, spice it up by following these tips.

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Cindy Cullen is a Bachelors degree holder in Restaurant Management and also a formally trained chef, who created the site CulinaryArtsCollege.org to share her experience about her Bachelor's degree. As students couldn't find the right Culinary college for them while trying to pursue career in Hotel Industry, so Cindy created this site to help those students to inform them about the educational process, their degree options, some pitfalls to watch out for, and what to expect when attending a culinary arts college. As a well trained chef she is acquainted with different cooking styles and recipes of different regions. She also has the passion to write about different culinary art colleges , foodie people and food available around the world.

You can contact her at: cindycullen84@gmail.com