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Category: Ingredient Spotlight
Ingredient Of The Day: Gin
Gin, aka Genever or Genièvre, is a spirit traditionally made with Juniper Berry and other botanicals like citrus, flowers, other spices, and sometimes Cucumber. It has a floral-astringent-slightly spicy-slightly bitter flavor. For culinary purposes it can be used in sauces or maybe a Granita to top Oysters but usually it used for cocktails like the …
Ingredient Of The Day: Sir Prize Avocado
Sir Prize Avocado is a variety of avocado that is medium to large in size. They have a buttery-earthy-fruity-nutty flavor and creamy-oily texture. Use for salad, sandwich, Guacamole, sushi, vinaigrette, and a chilled avocado soup.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Mâche
Mâche, aka Corn Salad, Field Lettuce, Field Salad, and Lamb’s Lettuce, is a delicate salad green with a mild-vegetal-slightly sweet flavor and crisp-tender-slimy texture. Use in salads and as a garnish.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Kiku Apple
The Kiku Apple is a well balanced apple with a tart-sweet flavor and crisp-juicy texture. It can be used as a baking apple but it is best used for out-of-hand eating, a fruit dish, salad, and apple sauce.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Baby Fennel
Baby Fennel is similar to regular Fennel Bulb with an anise-aromatic-slightly sweet flavor but it is more tender. Use cooked or raw in soup, stew, salad, Risotto, or braise them whole for a vegetable side dish.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Chinese Bitter Orange
Chinese Bitter Orange, aka Bitter Lemon or Trifoliate Orange, has a sour-acidic-slightly bitter flavor. It is similar to Bergamot Orange and Seville Orange and can be used raw for Aïoli, vinaigrette, and cocktails or cooked for sauces, jam, marmalade and preserves.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Chiogga Beet
The Chiogga Beet, aka Bull’s Eye Beet, Candy Cane Beet, and Candy Stripe Beet, is a beautifully decorative beet with an earthy-slightly sweet flavor. Use in Risotto, salad, soup, as a garnish, and a vegetable side dish.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Black Trumpet Mushroom
The Black Trumpet Mushroom, aka Black Chanterelle and Horn Of Plenty, is a wild mushroom with an earthy flavor. Use in a pasta dish, Risotto, soup, stew, and a vegetable side dish.…
Ingredient Of The Day: North Georgia Candy Roaster Squash
The North Georgia Candy Roaster Squash is a large winter/hard squash that averages in size of a half a meter in length and 20 centimeters wide and around 5 kilos from Northern Georgia, USA. The oblong squash has orange flesh and a light orange with greenish-teal tip on its outer shell was originally grown by …
Ingredient Of The Day: Baby Scarlet Turnip
The Baby Scarlet Turnip, aka Baby Pink Turnip, is an heirloom variety of turnip with an earthy-peppery-slightly sweet flavor and a crisp-crunchy texture. Use for crudités, salad, or as a garnish.…