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Ming Tsai's Must-Have Pantry Essentials
Last week, when I caught up with PBS host and restaurateur Ming Tsai, he spoke openly about his love affair with cooking, his latest ventures, and whether he'd be up for Top Chef Masters. In addition, Ming had endless tips for home cooks and rattled off a list of select Asian ingredients no kitchen should be without. To find out what they are, keep reading.
Do You Cook With Dried Mushrooms?
Do You Cook With Dried Mushrooms?
Yes, all the time!
Only if a recipe calls for them.
What's Your Favorite Trendy Ingredient of 2008?
Much like fashion or beauty, the epicurean world ebbs and flows. Certain ingredients or techniques fade away into obscurity while others suddenly come to the culinary forefront.
This year it was all about the pig — using the whole thing, from snout to tail.
Let's Dish: What Ingredients Do You Refuse To Eat?
Whether you're a picky eater or an adventurous one, everyone has certain items that they refuse to eat. Some things like mayonnaise, blue cheese, or cilantro are commonly hated, whereas things like chocolate or chicken are typically disliked by only a handful. Taste, texture, smell, color — whatever the reason — everyone has that one thing they avoid eating.
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Learn How to Make Your Own Bar Ingredients
Last week it was Cocktail Week here in San Francisco and I was lucky enough to attend a bunch of the events. The highlight was Thursday's bar school — a day of education. Since I'm an avid home mixologist, I checked out the House-Made Ingredients How-To taught by Jeff Hollinger, general manager at Absinthe, and Neyah White, bartender extraordinaire at Nopa.
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.
Secret Ingredient: Tofu Recap & Green Onions Next
The next secret ingredient is Green Onion (aka Scallion). Go out and find your best recipe featuring green onions. I want to see some creativity, some home favorites, some weird concoctions, anything as long as it has green onion in it!
Secret Ingredient: Crab for Tofu
The next secret ingredient is Tofu.
So join the Secret Ingredient Group and post your best tofu recipe there!
This week's winning Secret Ingredient recipe comes from reader mandiesoh.
Secret Ingredient: Butternut Squash
Calling all crafty cooks! I double-dog-dare you to post a recipe in my Secret Ingredient group. Each week I'll announce a new ingredient and invite you to post a recipe that creatively incorporates the ingredient of the week.
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.
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