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Herbs and Spices

The query is what to cook when you don’t have the time. Following that thread is how to enhance with big flavor?

The query is what to cook when you don’t have the time. Following that thread is how to enhance with big flavor?

20 sauces to add big flavor is written to spark that idea by Genevive Ko of the NY times. 2021-07-21 DenverPost. the article answers and could be fresh ideas from {#DDD} ‘flavortown’, a range from Green Sauce, Blueberry syrup to Buffalo sauce. What’s in my […]

Day 78 Quarantine: Sweet & Sour Mango Chutney

Day 78 Quarantine: Sweet & Sour Mango Chutney

Today, to go with our Hawaiian chicken brochettes, we made a Sweet & Sour Mango Chutney. Now, I love mangoes! Their tangy-ness, fibrous seed, and rich flesh make for a perfect fruit. Though, in this chutney, the mixture of onion, vinegar, mango, and sugar just […]

Nutmeg

Nutmeg

Nutmeg history is rather dark as it was extremely rare. Nutmeg is native to Moluccas (or the spice Islands) . in addition to being limited to a very narrow region of growth, Nutmeg comes from a tree (whose botanical name is myristica fragrans) that takes […]

Book review “Essential Pepin”

Book review “Essential Pepin”

  I meet Jacques Pepin when he came to the CP. One word. gracious. I have meet him several times later through Todays’ Gourmet and his writings. I pick up a Pepin book at any chance.  Over 6o years and 700 recipes. Essential Pepin is […]

Gourmet Garden

Gourmet Garden

Gourmet Garden…many thoughts and many culinary threads. Farm to table seems to be a current conversation. One that I will leave on the shelf… for the time being. A culinary thread from Netflix’s “chefs table” Jeong Kwan   states “I let the plants in my garden grow […]