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Know Your Winter Squash
One of the best things about this time of year is the abundance of gorgeous and delicious winter squash. Unlike their summer counterparts, winter squash have thick, hard skin and seeds; the flesh is firm and requires cooking. Some varieties are available year round, but winter squash are best now through winter.
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Know Your Ingredients: Tomatillos
If you're a lover of green salsa, then you should get to know tomatillos. A key ingredient in Latin-American cooking, the tomate verde as it's called in Spanish, or "green tomato," is related to tomatoes but has a drastically different flavor.
Tomatillos have a papery, outer husk, a firm, green exterior, and white flesh.
Know Your Ingredients: Caperberries
If you were surprised to learn where capers came from, it might be helpful to get a primer on a close relative, the caperberry. Do you know the difference between the two?
These oblong, semi-green fruits, which are picked from the same plant as capers, are similar in size to small grapes or olives.
Know Your Tomatoes
Whether they're from your own garden, purchased at the grocery store, or picked from a farmers' market stall, tomatoes are summer's most beloved vegetable fruit. When they are in season, nothing beats enjoying the simple tomato in all its fleshy, red, ripe glory. When choosing tomatoes look for locally grown, fragrant, heavy, tomatoes with skin that yields slightly to pressure.
Know Your Ingredients: Solid Pack Pumpkin
Recently, a co-worker came to me with a number of questions about canned, solid pack pumpkin: Is it sweetened? Does it have spices in it? What is it used for?
Momofuku's David Chang Talks Sabbaticals and San Francisco
We've always been huge fans of New York chef and restaurateur David Chang: He was Sugar's pick for Best Restaurant Chef of 2008. By fusing innovative flavor combinations and haute kitchen techniques with casual dining, the Momofuku overlord revolutionized the restaurant scene in America.
What's most refreshing about Chang, however, are his irreverent demeanor and unapologetic opinions.
Announcing Our Thanksgiving Recipe Challenge!
Calling all home cooks: Thanksgiving is just around the corner and we want you to share your tried and trusted recipes in the community. Just join the Kitchen Goddess group and go hog wild! Does your giblet gravy get rave reviews?
Know Your Ingredients: Liquid Smoke
With Summer grilling in full force and smoke-tinged cocktails taking the helm at bars nationwide, the food world has been singing the virtues of liquid smoke. But what is this mysterious substance, and how does it obtain its trademark taste?
A concentrated flavoring used to duplicate the essence of smoked wood, liquid smoke is literally the flavor of smoke captured in water.
Know Your Ingredients: Hearts of Palm
You may regularly get hearts of palm as a fixing at the salad bar, but do you know what these vegetables are, exactly?
Hearts of palm — also called palmito or swamp cabbage — are the sweet, tender cores of various palm trees. When harvested, the tree's bark and white fibers are removed, leaving an edible core.
Know Your Watermelon for Watermelon Day!
Every August 3rd is National Watermelon Day so go out and cut yourself a nice large slice of the dripping juicy fruit! Personally I like mine plain, but you can try skewering them and tossing them on the grill, or mixed into a salsa. If you can't figure out which kind to try, let me help you out.
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