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11 Gluten-Free Asian Noodles | Apartment Therapy The Kitchn. A friend of ours who embarked on a gluten-free diet was heard complaining about wheat-free pastas that are gummy, mushy, and just plain unappetizing. We suggested exploring Asian noodles, instead. Although noodles made from ingredients like acorns, mung beans, and sweet potatoes might not work with your favorite marinara sauce, they do offer wonderful textures and flavors of their own. Their appeal isn't just limited to those on gluten-free diets, either. Here are 11 gluten-free noodles that you can find in well-stocked grocery stores, Asian markets, and online at Amazon.com, Asian Food Grocer, koaMart, and United Noodles. • Acorn noodles (dotori guksu) – Korean noodles made from a mixture of acorn flour and buckwheat or wheat flour. Chewy, nutty, and slightly sweet, they're good in cold noodle salads and as a substitute for soba. Learn more in our post on Acorn Noodles. • Harusame – Japanese noodles made from potato, sweet potato, rice, or mung bean starch.
(Image: Emily Ho) Serious Heat: My Love for Mojo Sauce. [Photographs: Miss K] My first introduction into the wonder of mojo sauce was one of the early seasons of Top Chef, where a contestant (the always entertaining, Howie from the Miami season) braised pork shoulder in a mojo sauce to rave reviews. I quickly replicated the recipe and was in awe of how the citrus flavor paired with the pork. But that's only the beginning of mojo, which I've discovered since then has many uses and variations. Mojo does triple-duty as a fiery marinade, a condiment, and as a tenderizer for meats, seafood and poultry. Cuban mojo can be any sauce that is made with lots of garlic, olive oil and citrus juice, traditionally sour orange juice.
As far as uses, mojo sauce often tops boiled potatoes to add zest and color, as well as served with bread or alongside Gouda cheese. 31 New Things: Try A Horned Melon. When one pays five dollars for a piece of fruit, one can be excused for having some rather high expectations, right? But I knew that things weren't necessarily going to go well when the cashier couldn't identify said fruit and spent five minutes paging through what appeared to be a 2-inch-thick Fruit and Veg picture dictionary. I trundled my prickly little piece of goodness home and plunked it in my decorative fruit bowl, in an attempt to my kitchen look like a Gourmet magazine photo shoot and give the apples an inferiority complex. After a few days of admiring my horned melon, I finally worked up the nerve to slice into it and have a nibble. Findings? A loud and resounding 'meh.' Imagine a cross between a cucumber and a deeply mediocre kiwi fruit. For five stinking dollars I want mouth-gasms!
Fruit that is worth five dollars you say? Kumquats A million dollars? Lychees Okay, these are just kind of good. Jackfruit I became addicted to jackfruit while backpacking through Thailand. Untitled.
Thai Baked Alaska and Sun-Dried Tomato Tuna Melts Delicious link. Because I Wanna Be Fatter: A USB Microwave. Why Your Heart Hurts: A Mini Donut Machine. The $20 Mini Donut Factory may look identical to the Mini Cupcake Maker, but the similarities stop there! No, no they don't either. They're the same machine with a different insert. One makes cupcake shapes, the other buttholes. Both will make you fat if used in excess. It's true, I've only had the cupcake baker for a month now and you can already make two whole babies with the extra weight I've put on my ass.
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