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We’ve all made a pot of oversalted soup or stew. A classic kitchen trick is to add a thinly-sliced raw potato and let it sit to absorb some of the salt, until the slices become translucent. If that doesn’t work for you, here are four more ideas, courtesy of the newest edition of the kitchen…
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Ganache-filled Halloween pavés. Photocourtesy iGourmet.com. If you didn’t find what you liked in our recent Halloween Candy feature, here’s more: The scary images on these dark chocolate pavés (flat-topped squares) from Christopher Norman won’t frighten away chocoholics. The luscious, creamy fillings will banish all fears: The ghost contains wild berry dark chocolate ganache The…
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Now that we’re into winter squash season, expand your use of squash beyond a dinner vegetable. Squash can be sauteed, steamed, oven roasted, grilled, mashed, puréed and made into soup. But don’t overlook savory or sweet squash soufflé and squash pie (pumpkin is a squash, but you can make pies with butternut squash and other…
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Excellent chocolate truffles from Cacao Cuvée. Photo by Katharine Pollak | THE NIBBLE. Most chocolate lovers can’t resist chocolate truffles, balls of ganache (chocolate mixed with heavy cream) that melt in your mouth. Many chocolate truffles are pure chocolate-on-chocolate—ganache enrobed in cocoa or a hard chocolate shell. That’s fine for some people, but we need…
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October is Fair Trade Month. If you don’t know about Fair Trade, it’s important enough to devote a minute to read this. Small family farmers in developing-world countries grow much of the world’s cacao, coffee, tea, fruits and vegetables, cotton, flowers, ingredients for beauty products—more than 3,000 products in all. The vast majority of family…
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