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Matcha Latte Recipe. Matcha Masterclass. Matcha Classic Latte – PANATEA. How to Make Matcha, Japanese Green Tea, Step by Step. Matcha Latte Recipe. Short Rib Pot Pie Recipe. Cornbread Tamale Pie Is the Greatest Recipe of All Time. You know those recipes we hold near and dear to our hearts because they are really the greatest ever of all time?

Cornbread Tamale Pie Is the Greatest Recipe of All Time

Well, we’re using this new series as an opportunity to wax poetic about them. Today, BonAppetit.com staff writer Rochelle Bilow gets nostalgic about cornbread tamale pie (whatever the heck that is). Baking Tips for Better Cookies, Cakes, Pies, and More. We’ll admit it: Sometimes, we fudge things when we cook.

Baking Tips for Better Cookies, Cakes, Pies, and More

After all, who needs a recipe for simple weeknight pasta? Off-the-cuff roasted chicken is a snap. We’re big fans of that intuitive, little-bit-of-this, little-bit-of-that kitchen style because it makes our lives and our dinners easier. But when it comes to baking, we play by the rules. Baking is a science that requires precision, and often doesn’t allow for creative liberties. 1. Leave this baby on the counter for better cookies. Equally important as room-temperature ingredients are same-temperature ingredients: “Add hot things to hot things, and cold things to cold things,” Saffitz says, citing a fussy chocolate ganache as an example. 2. This is also important when it comes to mixing bowls—Saffitz insists on glass and metal ones that work best as makeshift double-boilers. 3. If you’re also flouring a pan, add in more than enough to cover, tip the pan to coat completely, then tap out the excess. 4. 5. 6.

Hearth Cooking: Making Fresh Pasta - Kinfolk. In times like these (hello, polar vortex), you never know when you might need to fire up an old-fashioned fireplace to make dinner during a power outage or an ice storm.

Hearth Cooking: Making Fresh Pasta - Kinfolk

Use our tips and recipe to make fresh pasta and cook over an open flame. (Yes, we know not everyone has a fireplace. Nor do we!) When the weather dips below freezing, warm your home with a fire that doubles as a way to cook a simple winter meal. In the old days, the fireplace was more than just a rarely used centerpiece in our living rooms; the fireplace used to actually be the kitchen. Use hardwoods such as oak, hickory and ash when building a fire for the hearth. How to boil an egg, the Heston Blumenthal way. For me, an egg is just right when the yolk is warm and runny, wrapped in a blanket of egg white that is just set.

How to boil an egg, the Heston Blumenthal way

When the white’s not mucus-like (which means it’s not cooked) and not hard, it’s silken and melts in your mouth. Which is why the best way to boil an egg is not to boil it. The problem is that the white sets at a lower temperature than the yolk so, when you cook the egg traditionally in boiling water, the white becomes rubbery. People say science takes the emotion out of cooking, but if you understand how ingredients work, you have greater control over them. It’s all about time and temperature. How to Make Homemade Pizza. Those supremely thin, hearth-blistered pizzas coming out of upscale pizzerias these days?

How to Make Homemade Pizza

We love ‘em, but trying to replicate the conditions of an 800-degree wood-fired oven in your kitchen is a good way to meet your local fire department. Enter the Grandma pie, that rectangular number you’ve likely spied at any old-school pizza joint. Done right, it has all the flavor and complexity of its artisanal cousin: an olive oil–crisped bottom; a pillowy-soft middle; and a rich, cheesy top cut by zippy sauce. The best part? The Grandma is the most reliably delicious pizza you will ever make at home. 1. This dough cold-ferments overnight in the fridge. Get the recipe: Grandma-Style Pizza Dough 2. The acidity of this no-cook tomato sauce talks back to all that cheese and olive oil, while anchovies (the secret weapon) bring a “what’s that?!” Get the recipe: Fresh Tomato Pizza Sauce 3. A classic Grandma—just sauce and mozzarella—flips the usual script: Add cheese before sauce. 4. 7 Tips for Making Your Cake Taste—and Look—Way Better.

So you have to make an impressive cake?

7 Tips for Making Your Cake Taste—and Look—Way Better

Don’t panic—we got you. Beautiful cakes are much more than expertly slicked buttercream frosting and piped rosettes. They’re about knowing little tricks for making the whole production prettier as well as tastier. Huevos: manual de uso I. Parece fácil, y no lo es / MAKESUSHI.ORG Este es uno de esos tutoriales que nos marcamos de vez en cuando que al principio nos parecen una idea estupenda y al final se acaban convirtiendo en un trabajo de investigación y catalogación que te tiene dos días tecleando como Richard Clayderman y te deja la cabeza como un bombo, un post de más de 2000 palabras que se acaba conviertiendo en dos y un montón de información interesante.

Huevos: manual de uso I

Ya os soltamos en su momento El libro gordo del rollete con las hierbas aromáticas, las especias y la cocina mexicana, india, china y japonesa, así que no os va a pillar de nuevo. Para que un huevo cocido quede exactamente en el punto que queremos, hay que introducirlo siempre en el agua ya hirviendo, ya que si no se irá cocinando a la vez que se calienta el líquido y nos lo encontraremos un paso más hecho de lo que buscamos.