Quick tips: bringing butter to room temp, testing your oven and the perfect chicken breast

1. Check out these tips for bringing butter and eggs to room temperature from My Baking Addiction.

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2. Do you know your oven's hot spots? Use this bread test from Cooking Light to find out!

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3. The Kitchn has a great method for cooking moist and tender chicken breasts, perfect for salads and pastas!

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And that's a wrap on today's tips!

-The CookingThyme Team

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Quick tips: storing cheese, dinner swaps and cutting avocados

1. Did you know the best way to store your cheese is wrapped in parchment? Experts recommend not wrapping your cheese in plastic, which suffocates the cheese, reducing the flavor. Find out more on The Kitchn.
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2. Dinner swaps are a fun, cost-saving way for families to join together to manage weeknight meals. Real Simple recommends that four families each make a big-batch meal and deliver the meal to each of the other three families, resulting in four families with four complete meals for the week! Have you tried a dinner swap?
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3. We love this Cookin' Canuck tutorial, explaining the easiest way to prepare an avocado. 

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Quick tips: trimming produce, peeling garlic, re-growing scallions

1. Curious about the best ways to trim your produce? Real Simple has some great tips for different fruits and veggies. Check them out here!

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How to Peel a Head of Garlic in Less Than 10 Seconds from SAVEUR.com on Vimeo.

2. SAVEUR magazine's Executive Food Editor, Todd Coleman, shows you how to peel a whole head of garlic in less than ten seconds. (It's kind of amazing.)

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3. Place the roots of cut scallions on a jar full of water and watch them re-grow! You'll see results within a couple of days, and a fresh supply of scallions in no time! Perfect for baked potatoes, salads and much, much more. See the full tip on The Kitchn.

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That's all for today's tips! Have a great Thursday!

-The CookingThyme Team

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