I know not everyone is going to be with me on this one, but poached eggs have always been my favorite. Scrambled eggs are nice, and so are hard-boiled eggs, but for me, the creamy poached-ness is where it’s at. Poached eggs are easy to make, too: just crack an egg into boiling water, set [...]
I was lucky — as a kid, I had the pleasure of visiting a local ice cream shop that made (and still makes, as far as I know) its own ice cream. It was creamier and tastier than anything you could buy in a store. Although all of their flavors were fantastic, my far-and-away favorite [...]
When I get on a kick, I get on a kick — I can happily eat the same thing for several days in a row if I like it. It’s even better when the dish/ingredient being eaten is multipurpose-able. After all, leftovers are the ultimate convenience food! Crepes are my most recent food fixation: first [...]
It’s summertime, and the blueberries are calling. (So are the strawberries and the blackberries and the rest of the berry bunch.) Time to celebrate with some fruit soup! It’s ridiculously easy to make — which is probably one of the chief reasons fruit soup is on every cruise ship’s menu — and can be made [...]
If you’ve ever had Japanese mochi, you’ve had sweet rice flour. (It’s also called glutinous flour, but celiacs need not worry — glutinous refers to the fact that it’s sticky; gluten-containing flours/grains, on the other hand, are glutenous.) Aside from mochi, though, Americans rarely use sticky rice flour in any recipes. Most of the time, [...]
Who cares about palm trees and sunny beaches when you’ve got wintery-white landscapes spread out before you and a mug of hot chocolate in your hand? (Though I admit it would be interesting to see snow-covered palm trees…okay, and I admit that it might be nicer to be on a sunny beach with a daiquiri…) [...]
I love ice cream. (Who doesn’t?) I love chocolate. (Ditto.) Lately, I had the best chocolate ice cream I’d ever tasted — it was silky and creamy beyond belief and hinted at a little something past the cocoa. The secret, I figured out after the third spoonful, was that it was made with coconut milk [...]
Fruit smoothies are great…and smoothies with fresh ginger are even better! Try this combination for a glass of morning zing: 1 peach, cut into rough chunks juice of 1 orange or 3-4 clementines about 1″ of fresh ginger root, peeled Put the peach chunks and orange juice into the blender, then use a garlic press [...]
This has to be among the world’s most popular edible roots! You’ll find it ground and ready to use in baked goods, preserved in rice vinegar and served alongside sushi, and cut into cubes and candied. Fresh gingerroot can be peeled and then finely diced for use in stir-frys; chunks of it can be infused [...]
