Whether just learning where the kitchen is or an expert in culinary skills, everyone can use come help in the kitchen — I know I can. That’s why I offer a Helping Hand.

Missing an ingredient? Your Helping Hand provides tips, ideas, and recommendations for ingredient substitutes to help you make hassle-free recipe changes. You can also create new flavors with suggested alternative ingredients.

Your Helping Hands also offers some helpful cooking tips for easier prep and to make your life easier in the kitchen. After all, dazzling and tasty meals don’t have to take hours, cost lots of money, use tons of ingredients, or cause uncontrollable eye twitching.

Look for Helping Hands in all recipes, as well as here in this section of Annette’s Cooking website. I’m adding new things all the time, so be sure to visit often.

Feel free to share your tips and tricks, too. You can use the form below or provide comments on any recipe page. Either way, I’d love to hear from you and learn more about your tips and tricks in the kitchen.

Here’s to making cooking carefree and fun. Enjoy!