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Healthy Appetizers: Javi’s Really Real Mexican Ceviche
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4.24 / 5 Stars | 70 Reviews
by JAVI19
“This recipe is one of my family’s favorites. It can be served as a meal or as an appetizer, as it is normally served in most authentic Mexican restaurants.”
How Starches Thicken Sauces and Fillings — We’ve Got Chemistry
Are you making a traditional lasagna filled with layers of creamy béchamel? Maybe you are cooking a quick beef and Chinese broccoli stir-fry for dinner with a sauce that’s loaded with ginger and garlic? Or perhaps you’re considering making a sweet, thick vanilla pastry cream to fill a fruit tart this weekend?
In most cases, the secret to a thick sauce (or filling) that coats food evenly is starch, whether plain flour, cornstarch, tapioca starch, or even arrowroot starch. Here’s why these starches do the job so well.
Recipe: Slow-Cooker Korean Short Ribs — Recipes from The Kitchn
Back when I was working graveyard shifts as a hospital pharmacist, cooking dinner was the absolute last thing I wanted to do when I got home. Fortunately, I learned that I could quickly toss some ingredients into my slow cooker and pass out, confident that I’d wake up when things started smelling good — like these slow-cooked, Asian-spiced ribs.
Can I Re-Can Canned Foods? — Good Questions
Q: If I buy fruits or vegetables at a grocery store in cans that are very large (6 pounds) — whole-kernel corn, for example — can I open them up and put them in pint jars and reseal them in a hot water bath?
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Healthy Main Dishes: Pasta Hot! Hot! Hot!
Healthy Appetizers: Fresh Salsa II
4.23 / 5 Stars | 47 Reviews
by KANDI.M
“A few fresh vegetables mixed together make one tasty salsa!”
swirled berry yogurt popsicles
In the past, I have made the argument that all sorts of absurd things, from fruit crisps to slab pies, pizza, salade lyonnaise, risotto, stuffing (!), latkes, cookie bars and even shamelessly decadent cakes rolled in brown butter and cinnamon sugar deserve inclusion in the first meal of the day. You might say I have no shame at all. I might say that I cleverly rail against the narrow confines of that which we know as breakfast. You might say I’ve gone too far this time, but I’m going to do it anyway: I’m going to make the argument that breakfast popsicles deserve to become a thing.
New York City theoretically has four seasons, but talk to anyone who lives here (or don’t, they will probably complain to you about this unsolicited, um, not that we know any New Yorkers like that) and they will tell you that we really only have two — face-freezing wintry mix and sticky concrete inferno, with about two weeks in-between of all that is good and glorious on this earth (a popcorn-like explosion of blossoms from treetops to sidewalks and fiery carpets of every color foliage imaginable), or in modern terms, the stuff of which “no filter” Instagrams are made. And, lo, not a minute after those spring petals hit the gutters, we had our first few days of eau de hot trash and a peculiar brand of cloying airlessness at which inner cities excel and I wanted to climb into the freezer and never leave.
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Nori Is My Go-To, Wheat-Free Burrito Wrap — Swap It Out
San Francisco may be best known for sourdough, but a few years ago it also became home to a new culinary mash-up: the sushi burrito. A combination of rice and fillings all wrapped — burrito-style — inside a sheet of nori, the sushi burrito is a very welcome solution for wheat-free burrito-lovers, like myself.
Recipe: Fiona’s Green Chicken — Recipes from The Kitchn
My chef sister, Fiona, is my go-to source for hands-on cooking advice and one of my biggest culinary heroes and influences. But even more important? Fiona came up with an umami-packed, Thai-inspired chicken recipe that immediately became a family favorite.