Culinary News
Category: New Discoveries
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: Sierra Beauty Apple
The Sierra Beauty Apple is an heirloom variety with yellow, pink, and red coloring and is from the Sierra Foothills in California. They have a slightly sweet-tangy-floral flavor and a crisp-juicy texture. Use for out-of-hand eating, jam and chutney, and baked goods such as pies, crisp, cobbler, and crumble.…
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.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Ettinger Avocado
The Ettinger Avocado is a variety of Avocado with a thin-smooth shell and large pit. They have an earthy-buttery-fruity flavor and creamy-oily texture. Use for salad, sandwiches, Guacamole, sauce, vinaigrette, or purée for a chilled soup.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Cassava Root
The Cassava Root, aka Manioc and Yuca Root, is a tuber vegetable with a mild flavor and starchy texture. The vegetable is primarily used as a thickener for soups and stews or made into flour.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Seville Orange
The Seville Orange, aka Bitter Orange and Sour Orange, has a sour-tart-slightly bitter flavor. Because of the sour-bitter flavor it is usually used for preserves, sauces, and cocktails.…