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Culinary

Tips for Great Choux Paste

…chefs, so it’s a worthwhile investment to have her book on hand. The basic ingredients for choux paste are water (or milk), butter, flour and eggs. It’s a combination of…

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Culinary

Lemon-Vanilla Granita

…can serve the granita in glasses and pour a little more rum over the top. Depending on the ingredients you use for the granita, you’ll need to adjust the sugar…

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Brunch

Jam Cakes

Jam Cakes are a quick, cheerful, dessert with ingredients that you’re bound to have, unless you  haven’t been to the store in weeks. The recipe makes six or more cupcake…

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Consciousness

Bob’s Red Mill Flour Review

…cooking and baking since childhood, though my six-year-old efforts at cookie making were often  globs of baked dough with raw centers, but I was enchanted by the magic of ingredients

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Brunch

Moroccan Orange Salad

ingredients that you most enjoy. Print Moroccan Orange Salad Print Recipe ★ 5 Stars ☆ ★ 4 Stars ☆ ★ 3 Stars ☆ ★ 2 Stars ☆ ★ 1 Star…

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Appetizers

Baba Ghanoush

…oven, I’ve added two ingredients that will help give it the depth of flavor that grilling provides — smoky paprika and a splash of soy sauce (gluten-free, use Tamari sauce)….

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Comfort Foods

Luscious Spring Risotto

…rice and vegetables. A comment about the ingredients. I had access to fresh “baby” artichokes, which I peeled, but and put into lemon water ahead of time. As it’s increasingly…

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Entrees

Bearnaise Sauce

…and set it aside. When the steaks are cooking you combine the final ingredients in a blender. Why add the vanilla? It softens the acidity and provides delicately sweet notes…

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Recipes

Balsamic Vinaigrette

…especially when made with excellent ingredients. Michele loves vanilla fortunately as I have added a little vanilla to this dressing, especially as the dressing as a sweet/tart component and vanilla…

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Culinary

Smoked Rainbow Trout and Endive Salad

…in Alice Waters’ American Vegetable Cookbook. It sounded like a great base for a full meal salad. Later, when I attempted to check on the dressing ingredients, I couldn’t find…

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FAQs

Facts and FAQs About Vanilla

…products and processed cookies and cakes, you may notice that it sometimes says, “Natural Flavors” in the ingredients. This term indicates that the product probably has natural vanillin made from…

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Healthy Cooking

The Best Port-Balsamic-Vanilla Glaze

…great salad dressing, it’s a quick fix for appetizers, it even works over ice cream and cake. The best part? It contains four ingredients! (Note: the curious items floating in…

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Tropical Foods

Tropical foods, flavors and ingredients: You eat them, drink them and use them as flavors and spices just about daily, but how much do you really know about the delicacies…

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Consciousness

A Sugar That’s Actually Good For You!

…syrup, on the other hand, can be easily substituted for cane sugar. If you are measuring ingredients, you will need a little more maple sugar to replace granulated sugar. If…

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