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We use these melamine mixing bowls in THE NIBBLE’s test kitchen. Here’s a tip from The Competent Cook (reviewed below): When it comes to selecting a mixing bowl, bigger is better. Even if you’re just whisking five tablespoons of vinaigrette, a larger bowl provides a greater range of motion. This means better emulsion and less…
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The Competent Cook: Essential Tools, Techniques, and Recipes for the Modern At-Home Cook by culinary instructor Lauren Braun Costello, is a delight. Even experienced home cooks are not necessarily well-trained cooks. Many people have been doing it “the hard way” since they first picked up the wrong knife—and held it incorrectly. Are you an experienced…
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The size of grapes, camu-camu are vitamin C-laden superfruits. Photo courtesy Acai-Natural-Pain-Free-Health.com. What’s the next superfruit? It’s camu-camu—but you can call it camu, for short. Camu is the grape-size fruit of a small, shrub-like tree that grows in the swampy basins and flood plains of the Amazon rainforest. As ethnobiologists comb the world for fruits,…
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Make “dessert pasta” for your favorite pasta lovers. We have a delicious selection of dessert pasta recipes. After looking at our selection of dessert pasta, reader Katelyn Cronin submitted her own, easy-to-make idea. > National Dessert Day is October 14th. > National Pasta Day is October 17th. RECIPE: VANILLA SHELLS, AN EASY DESSERT…
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Dee Dee’s Gourmet Cheese Straws are great with a beer. Photo by Hannah Kaminsky | THE NIBBLE. While TheNibble.com and this blog are filled with gourmet food ideas, we’ve picked a few interesting and affordable gift ideas for Father’s Day: • Spicy cheese straws from Dee Dee’s Gourmet, in a reusable gift tin • Lucero…
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