The 5 Tastes & How to Cook with Them. Inspired by conversations on the Food52 Hotline, we're sharing tips and tricks that make navigating all of our kitchens easier and more fun.
Today: It turns out, everything you need to know about balancing flavors is on the tip of your tongue. Your taste buds know more than you think they do: They are capable of helping build a recipe from scratch or fixing one that's gone awry. There are five "tastes" that serve as the foundation for the flavors in every recipe: sweet, bitter, salty, sour, and umami. You may find that some tastes are more prevalent in certain dishes than others, or that only one or two dominate in a certain food or dish. But making delicious food is all about balancing these tastes, and once you are comfortable doing so, you'll have more confidence cooking without a recipe or curating a killer cheese plate. Salty Bitter. Copy That! Secret Restaurant Recipes. How to Roast Citrus and 5 Ways to Use It. This article is brought to you by our friends at Electrolux as part of an ongoing series focusing on seasonal ingredients.
This month we're talking citrus. Today: Brighten up your winter dinner spread with some warm roasted citrus. Leafless trees and freezing commutes aside, produce aisles may be the bleakest part of winter. Without tomatoes, figs, and cherries on the shelves for inspiration, our fresh and colorful dinners can too easily fall few and far between. In the face of dinners featuring canned goods and root vegetables, our one respite is the citrus aisle. More: No time to cook? Rather than dry the juices out, baking citrus at a high temperature concentrates its sugars and therefore, its flavor. To roast citrus by itself, place an oven rack in the middle of your oven, then heat it to 350º F. Food52. Mo' butta', mo' betta': You can't go wrong with butter, and plenty of it.
Here's a replay of recipes that use butter in a very good way -- browned. Everyone knows that butter is pretty much the world’s perfect food. Butter makes everything better: Cakes are more tender, sauces become richer, meat seems juicier, the sky is bluer.... There is more to butter, however, than that familiar yellow block we all know and love. Brown butter (or beurre noisette if you are feeling fancy) deserves a place in every cook’s repertoire, especially during fall and winter. 11 DIY Recipes for Foods You Should be Making at Home. It's always more fun to DIY.
Turmeric Cooler - The Juice That Can Save You From Buying Advil. When I found this organic turmeric at the grocery store the other day, I squealed like a little pig!
That’s because this is probably the most powerful root on the planet and just the thought incorporating it even more in my diet is a dream come true. I knew the first thing I wanted to do with the turmeric was kiss it… haha, just kidding. Actually, I wanted to make juice! Turmeric is super powerful at reducing inflammation in the body naturally – without drugs – i.e. Plus asparagus, celery, and scallions. Lots of things make me feel guilty—white privilege, procrastination, throwing away unused produce after it starts rotting in my fridge.
There’s an easy solution to that last one, at least. As you’ll see in the above video, there’s a quick, simple way to make fresh herbs, and some vegetables, last for weeks, giving you ample time to put them to good use. Here also are a couple of vegetables that didn’t make it into the video but can be preserved using the same trick. Celery stays crisp for ages like this; just trim off both ends of the stalks beforehand.
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Bread. Breakfast. Dinners. Soups. Desserts & snacks. 18 DIY Cooking Hacks Alton Brown Taught Us. Long before DIY became a trendy term via Pinterest, Alton Brown was hard at work on the Food Network show "Good Eats," training home chefs on the virtues of science and thriftiness in the kitchen.
Brown's ban on "unitaskers," or cooking tools with only one use, led to some resourceful hacks. Here are some of our favorites. 1. Turn your grill into a smoker by making a tin foil pouch filled with wood-chips. Recipe here 2. Recipe here 3. Recipe here 4. Recipe here 5. Recipe here6. 7. Recipe here. 40 Creative Food Hacks That Will Change The Way You Cook. Common Cooking Mistakes: Cooking Tips and Questions Answered.
Cut Fat, Calories and Your Grocery Bill! Make Your Own Cooking Spray.One Good Thing by Jillee. This post is brought to you by Amazon where you can get deals on kitchen products!
Today’s post comes from the files of “Captain Obvious”! I mean really…making your own Cooking Spray is about as easy as “making” a bowl of cereal with milk…but for WHATEVER reason, it wasn’t until I happened to see this pin on Pinterest that it even occurred to me to “make” it.