How to Boil the Perfect Egg
This may come as a shock, but I didn’t always know how to boil an egg. Or, at least not the perfect boiled egg. As a deviled egg and egg salad lover, you can imagine how traumatizing this was. For...
View ArticleLimequats
What do you get when you cross a Fortunella margarita with a Citrus aurantifolia? A limequat. If nothing else, it’s a ton of fun to say the word limequat. I’ve played with kumquats (Fortunella...
View ArticleHow To Cook Parsnips
Farmers’ market parsnips are a great find — that is, if you can find them. Depending upon where you live, you’re more likely to see them at a grocery store. Grocery store parsnips are bagged just like...
View ArticleCauliflower Puree
Do not adjust the color on your monitor. That cauliflower is indeed, that yellow. It’s called a “cheddar cauliflower.” You’d think I wouldn’t care for cauliflower since it’s in the same family as...
View ArticleMandarin Orange Dust
I am a sucker for anything gourmet. Unusual ingredients are a particular weakness (see bamboo rice.) It all started with a tweet from a Seattle chef I admire and follow on Twitter, @ChefReinvented...
View ArticleFresh Ground Cardamom
Two reasons why you shouldn’t buy pre-ground cardamom: 1) It’s expensive 2) It has a shelf life shorter than Bruce Willis’s singing career Granted, it’s a pain to grind your own, but the payoff is in...
View ArticleHow to Seed a Pomegranate
Pomegranates are much tougher to spell than to peel and seed. How do you get from this gorgeous, tough skinned orb with a trumpet shaped stem to a plate of sparkling rubies that burst sweet tart juice...
View ArticleHow to Supreme an Orange
Those silly Frenchmen. They come up with the fanciest names for the some of the most pedestrian techniques. A “supreme” is nothing more than a section. Here’s how you do it. Cut off the top so that the...
View ArticleHow to Cook Calypso Beans
I could have titled this post simply: “How to Cook Beans” because, with a few exceptions, there isn’t much difference from one dried bean to the next in terms of cooking. You soak (or not — hence the...
View ArticleRoasted Pumpkin Puree
By now you’ve heard/read/absorbed-by-osmosis that the miniature sugar pumpkin, not the behemoth “jack-o-lantern” pumpkin, is the pumpkin to use for making pie…that is, if you’re not opening a can of...
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