Making Pastry Or Paste: A Chef’s Essential Skill
Cold hands, warm heart, great at pastry. All pastry is a mix of flour, many with fat and water which are all put together to […]
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Preparing Gazpacho Soup
Ingredients 1 cucumber, peeled and chopped 1 red pepper, deseeded and chopped 1 green pepper, deseeded and chopped 1kg ripe plum tomatoes, cored and chopped […]
Preparing a Fish Stock
A fish stock is an absolute requirement for any seafood dish that requires a strong sauce or a base for a soup, fish stew, various […]
One Pasta Dish Sorts Chefs Out – Cacio e Pepe
Trawling through the recipes for pasta dishes often reveals a few that have made their mark with chefs, not for complexity but for their sheer […]
How To Prepare A Ciabatta
Ciabatta bread, for all its ubiquity has retained its quality even though it is produced a massive scale. It is one of the great breads […]
Making a Chicken Liver Parfait
The chicken liver parfait is to all intents and purposes a very smooth pate with the possibly the best flavour you can imagine from such […]
Rosemary And Rosemary Oil – So Many Uses
Rosemary is one of the ancient cult plants, closely associated with love and marriage, birth and death. Similarly, rosemary oil is an important anti-microbial which […]
Resistant Starch And Gut Health
Starch is possibly the most important source of energy for feeding the world’s population. There isn’t a culture that developed to any extent without the […]
Furikake Encrusted Albacore Tuna with Yuzu Aioli
Furikake encrusted Albacore tuna is a great Japanese dish which has crossed over the Pacific to the Western seaboard of the USA. I’ve seen it […]
Sustainability and Green Issues with Baking
Baking, while a cherished culinary art, presents several sustainability challenges. Addressing these issues can significantly reduce the environmental footprint of both home and commercial baking. […]
The Benefits Of Castor Oil
Castor oil is a vegetable oil used widely in cosmetic and medical sciences. The oil is extracted from the seeds of the Ricinus communis plant […]
Avena Sativa Kernel Meal
What Is It ? Avena sativa is the scientific name for the cereal, oats. Oats are not only good for us nutritionally because oat bran […]
Lanolin Is That Key Ingredient In Skin Lotions
Lanolin is a common ingredient of skin products and an important one for helping to keep skin free of bacteria and fungi. In skin lotions […]
Deadly Slimming Pills And Diet Drugs Containing 2,4-Dinitrophenol Continue To Claim Lives
Regularly do we read of people dying needlessly because they take slimming pills and diet aids containing a chemical called 2,4-dinitrophenol. It is surely one […]
How to Prepare Pizza Margherita
Pizzas are wonderful vehicles for a great range of flavours and none more so than the no nonsense pizza Margherita. When you look at the […]
A Tax On Sweet Snacks Could Mean Greater Reductions In Sugar Consumption Than On Sweet Beverages
If governments must apply a sugar tax, how could they make it more effective in reducing sugar consumption? The latest research on the impact of […]
New study indicates that foods like potatoes help you eat less
Research at the Human Appetite Research Unit which is part of the University of Leeds looked at what people were eating and how full they […]