1. Use carrots instead of sugar to sweeten your sauces.

2. Sweet onions are better than yellow onions. Though sweet onions bruise more easily than yellow onion, they taste better.

3. If soup has too much salt, cut up a raw potato or two and drop into the soup. The potato will absorb some of the salt.

4. Fresh seafood looks firm and shiny, not soggy.

5. A fish’s eye is a clear indicator of freshness.

6. Fish should not smell fishy. Instead they should smell like the sea. Only bad fish smells fishy.