National Noodle Day: Oodles of Noodles
Every culture, past & present, has an ethnic love of noodles. Such noodle dishes include lo mein, spaetzle, pastas like linguine & penne, dumplings and more. These dishes make up one of the richest & largest categories of the world’s cooking history. There is no doubt that Italy has made the greatest contribution to noodle history. Pasta, the Italian word for noodles, has become part of our every day language, as...
Facts on Pastas & Noodles: National Pasta Month
National Pasta Month brings with it an innumerable amount of noodle recipes to keep you going for years. Whether it’s classic Fettuccine with Cream Sauce or Roasted Butternut Squash Ravioli, as well as large baked stuffed shells or lasagna, it’s all so unbelievably tasty. In this day and age, pasta is available in many forms, ready to use and convenient to purchase from your grocer. Quick Pasta Facts: Pasta can be bought...
How to Make Thai Papaya Salad
This tantalizing, juicy Thai Papaya Salad is a burst of sunshine on your plate with exciting flavors to tickle your taste buds. To use papaya in salads, try combining ripe papaya & mango with some exotic flavors from the islands, and you have a marvelous side dish or main salad that can be “beefed” up with chicken, beef, shrimp or fish. It’s oh-so-tasty with sweet, sour and savory all mixed to your heart’s content....
Web Chef Review: Perfect Taste Curried Coat & Bake Mix
I want to tell you about another great Perfect Taste product. You will want to check out Perfect Taste Curried Coat & Bake Mix if you enjoy tasty food that’s easy to prepare, and turns out making you look like a champion… That’s what I want! If you don’t know about Perfect Taste, they are an amazing line of spices, sauces & chutneys in the South Asian realm of flavors from a small gourmet company in...
Web Chef Review: Epicureal Long Pepper
Are you tired of Salt & Pepper? Well, you don’t have to be… I’ve been checking out the coolest salts & peppers lately, and this is no exception. Check out this great cooking product – Epicureal Long Pepper. Epicureal Long Pepper is not only unique enough be a conversation piece simply from its physical appearance, but the flavor and fragrance are very different than “regular peppercorns”....
Organic, Nutritious & Delicious: Organix Foods for Children
If you’re a parent, we know that you want to feed your children nutritious foods…Foods that are as pure as possible. Organic is what you’re looking for, but most importantly, it has to taste good. They won’t eat it, if it doesn’t taste good, will they? In fact, it can be tough getting young children from toddler age to eat. They can be picky, they can be fussy, and they can be downright cantankerous about...
Hilarious Food Pranks by Moussy Beer
If you need a laugh or just love pranks… …Sometimes nothing is more hilarious than simple food pranks. Small effects for big reactions. Watch as Moussy Beer sets up these harmless pranks out of a busy neighborhood eatery. Which one tickled your funny bone the most? Was it the magnetic plate that moved around the table when they went for a bite or tried to cut their meal into a tasty bite-sized piece? How about the magnetic...
Web Chef Review: Drogheria Persian Blue Salt
Today, I’m bringing you a super cool product that I think you’ll love too. It’s Drogheria Persian Blue Salt. Yup, I said BLUE salt! For us foodies out there, this is a interesting find… It comes from Iran and will certainly be a conversation piece over a meal served with this salt on the table. Let’s face it, it satisfies the kid in us, as well as the sophisticated foodie alike! Check out this webisode...
How to Cook Asian Chicken Stew with Rice
Tonight, a simple idea turned into something deliciously complex. I had the idea of making a chicken stew…since it’s been a while, and a total soup recipe wasn’t turning me on… I had no idea what flavorings I would use until I started looking around my refrigerator for what I had available. I saw some baby bok choy I wanted to use up, some carrots, celery and ginger. I was out of mushrooms, but remembered to...
How to Cook Chicken Drumsticks with Tomato Curry and Rice
Tonight, I decided to just wing it in the kitchen for dinner, and also even thought I would allow you to be privy to my thought process when I cook a dinner at home. Let me set the Scene: I had no idea what I was going to cook. I needed dinner ready, like “Now”. All I knew is that I was going to make chicken drumsticks because that’s the first thing to decide…what meat to use. The chicken drumsticks were the...
How to Cook Asian Food Recipes
One of the genres of cuisines I would love to know more about and be exposed more to is in the Asian food realm. From sushi to stews, Bento boxes to dessert treats, Asian recipes are not only varied, but span so many different subcultures as well. Regional cuisine from all over Asia is packed full of exotic flavors, often provides the utmost in plate appearance, and often requires some honed skills to be able to accomplish a...
How to Brew the Perfect Cup of Darjeeling Tea
Darjeeling Tea is my absolute favorite type of tea. This tea hails from the area of West Bengal, India. This is not a native plant to India, and was first cultivated using Chinese tea plant seeds. It is often considered to be a black tea, as it looks like a black tea when it’s brewed, but it is technically more of an Oolong tea since it doesn’t have complete oxidation as a black tea would. Now, it does have caffeine (who...
How to Cook Pan Sauteed Wasabi Crusted Salmon
Spice up your plate tonight with Pan Sauteed Wasabi Crusted Salmon! Tonight, I’m cooking salmon, but I wanted to pan sauté it with a bit of a new flare. Pan Sauteed Wasabi Crusted Salmon: I saw wasabi peas in my pantry and decided to grind them or pulverize them in the food processor to use as the “dredging flour” to kick it up a hundred notches! One of my favorite combinations is when I have salmon sushi with...
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