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Kitchen Window: Hold The Mayo ... While I Get A Spoon. Hide captionEach Of These Things Is A Little Like The Other: There's a common ingredient mixed into these dishes ranging from appetizer to dessert. It's the much-maligned condiment, mayonnaise — but you'd never guess it. Trust us. Doreen McCallister/NPR Know your audience: It's a maxim that television network officials and public speakers know well. Parents are familiar with it, too, as they try to sneak some healthy ingredient into a not-so-healthy dish. Even Chef Boyardee has a whole ad campaign built around hiding a full serving of vegetables in each one of its meals. I love the idea of camouflage cooking. Prepare to be shocked and awed. Poor mayonnaise. I was hooked after I saw a chocolate cake recipe that had mayonnaise in it. The longer I stared at the picture of the moist cake, and the more I ruminated on the idea, it seemed perfectly fine to put mayonnaise in a cake.

But not everyone would agree. Let's be clear: I don't lie to people who have food allergies. Makes 3 to 6 servings. Pickled Beets Recipe : Alton Brown. Chinese Pickled Cucumber Salad Recipe | Eating China 中國食跡. This is a simple dish but it needs to be prepared half a day in advance. Serves 4 Ingredients 3 oriental cucumbers 1/2 medium-sized carrot 2 tablespoons white rice vinegar 5 cloves garlic, finely diced 1 chilli pepper, sliced 3 teaspoons salt 1 teaspoon sugar Method Scrub cucumber and rinse skin well (do not peel). Cut cucumbers lengthways into quarters. Cut crossways into finger-length pieces. Notes: For a variation add a teaspoon of finely diced ginger.

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