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Category: Ingredient Spotlight
Ingredient Of The Day: Bone Marrow
Bone Marrow is often prepared as an appetizer by slicing the bone in half lengthwise and roasting and served with a side of bread. But it can also be used as in ingredient for a compound butter, in a sauce or soup, and as a garnish.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Golden Turnip
The Golden Turnip is a baby variety that can be used raw or cooked. They have an earthy-nutty flavor and a crunchy texture. Use for crudités, salad, stew, and a vegetable side dish.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Mandarinquat
The Mandarinquat is a golf ball sized citrus that is a hybrid of a Mandarin and a Kumquat. They have an aromatic-floral-fruity-tart-slightly sweet flavor and a tender-juicy texture. They are mostly used whole in chutney, jam, and preserves and for cocktails.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Rice Paddy Herb
Rice Paddy Herb has a musty-citrus-pungent-tart flavor. Because of its strong flavor, use sparingly in curry dishes and Indian dishes, soup, stew, stir-fry, and in a salad.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Chocolate
Happy Valentine’s Day! Chocolate is used in many desserts like Pot de Crème, cakes, Chocolate Candy and a lot of baked goods but it is also used in savory cooking for sauces and Mole.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Vietnamese Coriander
Vietnamese Coriander, aka Asian Water Coriander, Rau Ram, and Vietnamese Cilantro, is an herb that is used in Asian cooking and has an aromatic-grassy-minty-musty-pungent flavor. Use for a garnish, in Pesto Sauce, relish, salsa, sauce, stir-fry, and salad.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Loquat
The Loquat, or Japanese Plum, is a small orange fruit with a floral-tart-slightly sweet flavor. Use it for out-of-hand-eating, in a salad, or for a chutney or sauce.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Rangpur Lime
The Rangpur Lime, aka Mandarin Lime, has an acidic-aromatic-citrus-fruity flavor and is used for its juice and zest to flavor dishes and sauces. Use in Ceviche, Seafood Crudo, vinaigrette, cocktails, and to infuse liquids and liquors.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Treviso
Treviso, aka Radicchio di Treviso, is a leaf vegetable that can be used cooked and raw. It has a vegetal-slightly bitter flavor and can be used in salad, for stew, vegetable side dish, and as a braising green.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Taro Root
Taro Root is a starchy tuber with a mild-earthy-nutty flavor. Peel the skin and use in soup, stew, stir-fry, and vegetable side dish.…