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Ingredient Of The Day: Buddha’s Hand Citron
Buddha’s Hand Citron, aka Finger Citron and Fingered Citron, is a very dramatic looking citrus. It is only used for its zest which has an aromatic-sour-strong flavor. You can candy the peel and use as a garish for desserts or make a syrup that is good for cocktails and desserts or use the zest for vinaigrette, …
Ingredient Of The Day: Red Swan Bean
The Red Swan Bean is a stringless bean similar to a Romano Bean and they loose their beautiful purple-green color after being cooked. They have an earthy-vegetal-slightly sweet flavor and a crisp-firm texture and can be used for crudités, salad, and vegetable side dish.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Blewit Mushroom
The Blewit Mushroom, aka Blue Foot Mushroom, Pied Bleu Mushroom and Woodblewit, is an autumn fungus with a mild-earthy flavor. The specialty fungus is used in Risotto, pasta dish, sauce, soup, stir-fry, and vegetable side dish. They can be baked, braised, roasted and sautéed.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Amahyakume Persimmon
Amahyakume Persimmon is a specialty variety with a sweet-tangy flavor and creamy texture and needs to be used when it is very ripe. Use for baked goods like flans and custards, cakes and muffins, and jams and preserves.…
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 …