Culinary News
Month: October 2022
Ingredient Of The Day: Water Caltrop
Happy Halloween! The Water Caltrop, aka Bat Nut, Buffalo Nut, and Devil Pod, is a type of nut that is similar to a Water Chestnut. They have a mild-nutty flavor and fibrous-starchy texture and need to be cracked open to get to the flesh. Boil, simmer, or roast and use for a snack, in a stir-fry, …
Ingredient Of The Day: Chinese Date
Chinese Date, aka Jujube or Red Date, is a small marble sized brown and yellow tropical fruit with a small pit in the center. They have an acidic-slightly sweet flavor and a dry-mealy texture. Use for baked goods, chutney, compote, and jam.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Golden Kiwi
The Golden Kiwi, aka Gold Kiwi, has a similar flavor to regular Kiwi but a little more sweet and less tart. Use for out-of-hand eating, in dessert dishes, salad, and salsa.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Corn Smut
Corn Smut, aka Corn Truffle, Cuitlacoche or Huitlacoche, and Maize Mushroom, is a fungus that grows on corn after it rains. It is considered a delicacy and can be used in Risotto, sauce, soup, stew, and Latin dishes. It has a musty-smoky-sweet flavor and tender-woody texture.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Cauliflower Mushroom
The Cauliflower Mushroom is a golfball to softball sized fungus with an earthy-musty flavor and crunchy texture. Use for a pasta dish, Risotto, soup, and stew.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Tamarillo
Tamarillo is a tropical fruit that comes in red and golden colors and its size is a little larger than an egg with a teardrop shape. The seeds are edible but the skin is way too bitter and needs to be removed. The red tamarillo has a sweet-tart-acidic flavor and the golden tamarillo is sweeter …
Ingredient Of The Day: Fresh Peruano Bean
The Peruano Bean is a fresh shelling bean that is in season during autumn. They have a mild-buttery flavor and firm-tender-creamy texture and can be used in soup, stew, and a side dish.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Karinata Kale
Karinata Kale is a hybrid variety of Red Russian Kale and Red Mustard Green. It has an earthy-peppery-vegetal flavor and crisp-tender texture. Use cooked or raw for salad, Pesto Sauce, soup, stir-fry or for a braising green side dish.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Kadota Fig
The Kadota Fig is a green variety of fig with an aromatic-sweet flavor and creamy-tender-jam like texture. Use for chutney, compote and jam, or raw for a salad or out-of-hand eating.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Limequat
The Limequat is a small citrus that is a hybrid of Key Lime and Kumquat. They have an aromatic-tart-slightly sweet flavor and are used for cocktails, baked goods such as pies and jams and preserves.…