Time to set the ball rolling with some tantalizing French onion soup. The look of that broth with the floating cheese literally begging to be consumed is what makes you visit a restaurant time and again for a quick fix before you go on with the rest of the day’s activities. We all know how inviting those restaurants can make food look, but it doesn’t always have to be an …
Most people outside of Pennsylvania and a few neighboring states haven’t heard of scrapple, but this dish is an important part of American culinary history. Inspired by German recipes that combined pork scraps, blood, and buckwheat and cooked it into a sliceable loaf, the Pennsylvania Dutch (who are in fact German immigrants, not Dutch) made a new version that omitted the blood and sometimes substituted cornmeal for part of the …
Jasmine rice is a type of long-grain rice. It is a central part of South Asian cooking, though it has become popular in dishes around the world. Originating in Thailand, jasmine rice has a light flora aroma and is soft and sticky when cooked – though not as sticky as sushi rice. It is not the same as basmati rice, which requires another cooking method. Basmati rice is more popular …
So you’ve bought your first meat grinder and now you’re not sure what to do. You want to grind meat, that much is obvious, but you’re not sure where to start. Don’t worry, we’ve all been there. The process might seem a little confusing at first but if you follow these tips, you’ll soon learn all you need to know about meat grinding. About meat grinding. The Basics Meat grinders …
Israeli couscous, also known as pearl couscous or ptitim, is a type of toasted pasta shaped like rice or tiny spheres. It is similar to the rice-shaped pasta orzo and the Sardinian toasted pasta fregula. Developed during the 1950’s when rice was scarce in Israel, it is made from a wheat dough. Toasting it instead of drying it like regular pasta gives it a pleasantly chewy texture and a mild, …
Brown rice can be cooked perfectly in a rice cooker. Some rice cookers offer a pre-programmed brown rice setting that produces great brown rice every time. Then you’re in luck! But, many don’t, and have either a simple manual on/off switch, or just a white rice setting. In this article, we’ll explain exactly what to do to prepare brown rice in any kind of rice cooker. Brown rice is structurally …
It shouldn’t be every time we run to the parmesan or the mozzarella cheese; there are times we go back to the basics before all the modifications and new discoveries began, what basics? Cottage cheese, ‘Oh wow, really? ’ There is a kind of professionalism that comes with knowing the way different dishes taste, both old and new, knowing about food and dishes that were staples from times past also …
When talking about healthy fish species you can’t rule out salmon, whichever way you put it, salmon is favoured among other fishes. You actually can’t get a convincing answer to the reason this happens until you taste an amazingly prepared salmon. So now the next question is: what ways can you cook salmon? Within the context of this article, we are going to grill it! Not just grill it, but …