Culinary News
Category: New Discoveries
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.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Calcot Onion
The Calçot Onion is an autumn/early winter onion. It is similar to the White Spring Onion and has an earthy-aromatic-vegetal-slightly sweet flavor. This onion originated in Spain and is used as a garnish or for a salsa or sauce.…
Ingredient Of The Day: White Pomegranate
The White Pomegranate is similar to regular Pomegranate but with a sweeter flavor. Use the seeds for a garnish or in a salad, or use the juice for cocktails, vinaigrette, and marinade.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Butter Boletus
The Butter Boletus mushroom, aka Royal Bolete, is similar to a Porcini Mushroom but with less flavor. Bake, braise, sauté, roast, or grill and use for Risotto, pasta dish, soup, stew, or a vegetable side dish. They have an earthy-musty flavor and firm-dry-spongy texture.…