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 […]
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. […]
Electrochemical Leavening: An Innovative Approach to Dough Leavening
Leavening is a crucial process in baking that involves the production of gases within dough, causing it to expand and resulting in the light, airy […]
How To Make Blueberry Jam
Blueberry Jam Recipe Yield: ~3 cups (about 3 half-pint jars) Ingredients 4 cups fresh or frozen blueberries (about 2 pints or 600g) 1 ½ cups […]
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 […]
Gachas
Gachas – the ancestral dish of central and southern Spain. The recipe for what is a type of porridge is composed of toasted flour and […]
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 […]