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Eugenia Bone :: Mycophilia. There are lots of misunderstandings about cooking mushrooms. Here are a few tips that may help clarify some of the mysteries. There are two categories of mushrooms out there: wild and cultivated. New cultivars are on the market that you used to only find in the wild, like maitake (hen of the woods) and royal trumpets, as are mushrooms long cultivated in the Far East, like wood ear and enoki, and more wild varieties are showing up in specialty stores, like blewets and black trumpets. In general wild mushrooms are more intensely flavored, benefiting as they probably do from their soil and bacterial symbionts, but the cultivated varieties are excellent, too. When buying mushrooms, either wild or cultivated, look for moist firm specimens that have a nice strong smell. In this sense, buying mushrooms is much like buying fruit: if it doesn’t smell like anything, it won’t taste like anything either.

So how to cook different mushrooms? When you cook a mushroom it will release a lot of water. 21 Simple One-Pot Pastas. Homemade Sriracha recipe on Food52. Author Notes: I began experimenting with homemade Sriracha two summers ago after discovering Joshua Bousel's recipe on Serious Eats ( The first batch, while tasty in its own right, was bright and in-your-face hot, and missing the earthiness of the beloved Huy Fong version. I spent the rest of my summer on a quest for an earthier, more complex sauce.

By fall, I’d found it. The keys to this much improved homemade Sriracha were the following: A longer fermentation, achieved by increasing the amount of sugar. Using smoked sea salt in addition to regular kosher salt. Thickening with xanthan gum instead of reducing the sauce over heat. And the change that made the biggest difference: mixing in some green jalapeños and serranos. The result is a sauce that is a bit hotter than the Huy Fong version, but with all the earthy complexities that make it so darn tasty. Makes about 2 cups This recipe is a Community Pick! DIY Maraschino Cherries with Amaretto - Savvy Eats. Some friends and I tried to go blueberry picking on Friday, just before the heat wave hit.

The farm’s newsletter said that blueberries would be ready last Wednesday, so we figured that there would be plenty of ripe, plump berries for us to brush into our buckets. I should have thought to call ahead, but instead we drove for 35 minutes only to find that….the blueberries weren’t ready yet. Cue the sad trombones. But we had driven all that way, with our containers packed into the back seat. We were slathered in sunscreen and had quickly-melting ice water at the ready to rehydrate. So we asked if they had any fruit that was ready for U-Pick. “Some sour cherries and red raspberries,” they told us. Side note: I don’t know why, but I have it in my head that only black raspberries are June/July fruits, and that the reds and goldens are only in late summer/early fall.

Another note: Oxo sent me a cherry pitter to try, and it is a lifesaver. DIY Maraschino Cocktail Cherries with Amaretto Ingredients. Magic Shell recipe on Food52. Salvatore Cuomo: Gnocchi ( How To... ) 1 Kg Potatoes 300gr Flour 1 Egg Pinch of Salt Directions: 01 - The first thing to do is to boil the potatoes in their skins. 02 - After about 25 Minutes turn the heat off and tip them into a colander to drain. 03 - While still hot peel off the skin. 04 - Pass the potatoes through a potato ricer. Photo: giallozafferano.it 05- Let the mash cool slightly and then sprinkle over the flour, add 2 generous pinches of salt, and finally pour in the egg. 06 - Use your hands to mix it together. 07 - Sprinkle the surface with flour. 08 - Use a flexible knife to cut off 2cm pieces off the roll you've just made.

Photo: italian-food-recipes.net & tablespoon.com 09 - You can either leave the gnocchi smooth or give the classic gnocchi-shape by pressing the gnocchi against the prong of a fork and rolling it off. 10 - Place the gnocchi onto a tray, leaving a space between each piece to prevent them from sticking together. 11 - Boil some water in large and deep pan. 15v- Add sauce and serve. Notes: Related Recipes: 15 Molten Lava Cakes You Could Fall Hard For. 4 Ways to Cook Chicken Thighs. Edit Article BakingBroilingSlow CookingFrying Edited by LIVLUVHORSES, Maluniu, Lspricigo, Amori and 6 others Chicken thighs are flavorful, moist and are interestingly-textured, especially when the skin is well crisped. There are many ways to cook chicken thighs, among them baking, broiling, slow cooking, and frying. Here are the basics for preparing healthy and inexpensive chicken thigh entrees.

Makes 4 servings Ad Steps Method 1 of 4: Baking 1Preheat the oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit (218 degrees Celsius).[1] Prepare a baking dish by lightly coating it with nonstick cooking spray. 4Serve warm. Method 2 of 4: Broiling 1Preheat the broiler. 5Check for doneness and serve warm. Method 3 of 4: Slow Cooking 1Season the chicken. 6Serve warm. Method 4 of 4: Frying 1Season and marinate the chicken. 6Drain and serve hot. Easy 20 minute home-made, yeast free pizza. : foodhacks. Shooter Sandwich (x-post /r/foodporn) : foodhacks. Perfect Sandwich Bread Recipe - Food.com - 303107. Beancurd Sticks Broiled with Soy Sauce, Ginger, and Honey. Food Network. A Two Bite Breakfast: Bacon & Eggs in Toast Cups. * Updated post from archive: Originally posted March 29, 2009 If you where to ask me what is my favorite meal of the day without a thought my response would be breakfast!

I love breakfast! I love brunch! I love bacon! I love breggs! I mean eggs! These little goodies are all of the above in a little two bite package. The other day I was scanning through my copy of William & Sonoma’s: Tools and Techniques. And, they are crazy easy to make. Pre-heat the oven to 400 degrees. Trim the crust and the corners off the bread, making wonky looking circles. Line a sheet pan with parchment paper and lay the bacon strips on it. Shape the cooled bacon into the toast cups, with the meaty side out.

Also, if you aren’t a fan of creamy delicious runny eggs you can beat 4 eggs with a bit of milk, season and spoon into the cups. Lower the temperature of the oven down to 350 degrees. Run a knife along the edges and use a small spoon to pop them out. For the love of eggs, bacon and toast! Ingredients 6 eggs Notes. Black Beans and Rice Recipe. Fiery Mushroom Pizza with Jalapenos and Hot SauceThis Is My Inspiration | This Is My Inspiration. The last few times I’ve made a pizza I’ve just used shop bought flat breads or even large pitta breads as the base, but I went back to basics yesterday and made my own wholewheat dough and whipped up a hot, hot, hot pizza for Sunday movie night…. we watched The Big Wedding, which was pretty good… and the pizza was fabulous!

I was going to buy another pot of nutritional yeast as that’s what we would usually sprinkle on top of the pizza, but I didn’t bother this time and didn’t feel we were missing out. What I did have though is a couple of the super veggie burgers left over from Friday night, which I broke up and popped on top of my pizza, so if you have any left over burgers in the fridge, get them onto your pizza, if not, just load up on more mushrooms, try and get some portobello mushrooms to give the pizza a hearty consistency. Oh and if you feel you don’t have the time to make your own pizza dough then just go back to the shop bought flat breads or pizza bases you normally use.

How To Make A Biltong Box For Drying Biltong. If you’re planning to make your own biltong or droëwors, you’re going to need a way to dry the meat. A biltong box is what you need! You could go buy one of those fancy dehydrators sold at outdoor stores, but if you want to save some money, you could simply find out how to make a biltong box. It is quite easy to do! (If you don’t know what biltong is, it is seasoned meat cut in strips and then dried. It is similar to jerky. Droëwors is dried sausage.)

Your Basic Goal With A Biltong Box The basic goal, no matter what type of biltong box you make, is to have a place to hang your meat where the cat or flies can’t get to it, and then move air through it. It doesn’t really matter how you achieve that. You get the point… move air through it, and it will dry. I will show you how to make two types of biltong boxes, (1) a decent wooden box, or (2) a quick and cheap cardboard box. A Wooden Biltong Box Here’s what your wooden biltong box should look like: How It Works How To Make It PS. PPS. How to Make Mofongo: 8 Steps.

Edit Article Edited by Juan, Carolyn Barratt, Michaela, BR and 6 others Mofongo (pronounced moh-FON-goh) is a very typical Caribbean dish in which the main ingredient is green plantains. It's very popular in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and other nearby islands, as well as in any community around the world where Puertoricans can be found. It can be served by itself, with other main courses or with several different kinds of "stuffing" that can turn it into a main course all on its own.

Ad Steps 1Heat the vegetable oil. 8Finished. Video Tips When served plain, some purists prefer for the mofongo to be placed in a large bowl that has been partly filled with a hearty chicken broth or fish stock.Buy enough green plantains for the number of servings of mofongo you plan to prepare. Warnings Make sure the plantains are cooked through. Do-It-Yourself Dragon's Beard Candy. For a basic Dragon's Beard you need, Ingredients (Syrup):- * 1000g / 2.2lb of sugar * 100g / 3.5oz of light corn syrup or maltose * 1 tsp of white vinegar (careful here, too much or too little might mess up the final product) * 500ml or 2 cups of water Ingredients (Dusting):- * 3 to 4 cups of corn starch or rice flour Ingredients (Filling):- * 2 to 3 cups of peanuts Tools:- * a saucepan that will comfortably fit the ingredients * a candy thermometer * a pastry brush * round disposable plastic containers or preferably silicone doughnut baking molds * your hands Note: We highly HIGHLY recommend you use silicone doughnut baking molds or just silicone baking molds in general.

31 Fun Treats To Make In A Muffin Tin. Shakshuka. There are a lot of reasons to make shakshuka, an Israeli Tunisian dish of eggs poached in a spicy tomato sauce: It sounds like the name of a comic book hero. Or some kind of fierce, long-forgotten martial art. Or perhaps something that said comic book hero would yell as they practiced this elaborate martial art, mid-leap with their fist in the air. Or you could make it because when I talked about making eggs in tomato sauce a while back a large handful of comments were along the lines of “oh, this sounds like shakshuka” and “I think you would love shakshuka” and “you really should make shakshuka” and you may have shrugged and forgotten about it until you finally had it at a café one day and whoa it turns out you really would like shakshuka!

Or you could make it because that café had the audacity to close for Passover last week, right when you had the fiercest shakshuka craving yet. I mean, couldn’t they just not serve it with pitas? Serves 4 to 6. How To Make Turkey Stock, The Most Important Thanksgiving Ingredient. Springy, fluffy marshmallows. The first time I made marshmallows, well, I don’t think saying “it was a mess” adequately describes it. Oh, the marshmallows were successful; they even looked and tasted like marshmallows, but yours truly? I ended up in a tangled web of marshmallow strings. It all went south when I couldn’t resist the urge to scrape down the paddle and bowl (anyone else an obsessive bowl scraper? I cringe when things go to waste). The paddle was gunked to the bowl and the scraper was glued to the paddle and then — and it is my duty to implore you not to do this at home — you think, “well, I’ll just wipe off the paddle with my index finger” and then your index finger gets knit to the scraper and then you think “well, let me use my other finger to wipe this one off” and all of a sudden, you’ve got strands of marshmallow strung from each finger to the bowl, the mixer, the paddle, the scraper, each corner of the pan, your shirt, the floor and then your husband comes home just as you’re pleading “help!

Blue Kale Road: Homemade Sriracha. A couple of years ago I got hooked on homemade sriracha. I had discovered a recipe on Food52 and made it immediately. Upon tasting the homemade sauce, my family and I declared it superior to the store-bought sriracha which we immediately tossed out in favor of our new favorite. This experience opened my eyes to the world of homemade condiments, and sriracha became my gateway condiment, if you will.

Here at Blue Kale Road, I love telling you about new creations as well as family recipes, and sriracha has become a family recipe. It is one of those repertoire recipes, one without which my boys will not leave home. We are never without a jar in the fridge, and I can’t begin to tell you all the times we have dolloped and slathered this fiery red sauce. I’ve seen quite a few variations of sriracha made in home kitchens, some are cooked, others fresh, some have fish sauce, while others have tomatoes. The clean, fresh, vibrant flavors will make your taste buds sing, and it packs a punch! Homemade Nutella Recipe. Christie Matheson | Cake Simple | Chronicle, 2011 The One and I first went to Paris on December 30, 1993, to ring in the New Year.

As a couple, we were barely three months old, so everything we did was met with our mutual smiles and contented, self-satisfied sighs. It was as if no other couple had ever taken a picture on the Pont Neuf, strolled through the Tuileries, scratched their heads over the surprisingly miniscule size of the Mona Lisa, or eaten a Nutella-filled crêpe in the street.

When the street cart crêpier tossed his chin out to us, his way of asking what kind of crêpe we wanted, I hesitated. Ever since seventh grade, when I began studying French, I’d dreamed about biting into a crêpe, à la the dogs in “Lady and The Tramp,” with The One. Not this One, mind you; in my imagination, it was a lady. (What can I say? If ignorance is bliss and love is blind, then falling in love in Paris makes you a blind idiot. Then this recipe came along. LC Deliver Me From Temptation... Directions. Make Your Own Peanut Butter. Can we talk peanut butter for a second? I was totally one of those picky-eater kids growing up, I had a major peanut butter and jelly phase. And even though my palette has (I hope) matured since then-I think I was on to something. Because peanut butter is AWESOME! So I thought it would be fun to try and make my own-which was a great success!

And then I whipped up a chocolate version... here's how you can make your own: To make peanut butter at home all you need is: 16 ounces of dry roasted peanuts (more or less depending on how much you want to make at once) a pinch or two of salt and a food processor. Place all the peanuts in your food processor and blend for 8-10 minutes. Another delicious nutty-spread I adore is Nutella! Needed: 1 1/2 cups raw hazelnuts, 1/2 cup sugar, 5-6 tablespoons cocoa (I used dutch-processed), 1/4 cup pure maple syrup, 1/4 cup oil (I used vegetable) and 2 tablespoons coconut milk. Happy snacking! Vanilla Extract Recipe. Perfect Sandwich Bread Recipe - Healthy.Food.com - 303107. Goofy Bread Rolls Recipe - Food.com - 419021. Avocado Fries + Lemon Garlic Aioli. Homemade pop tarts.

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