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National Egg Salad Week is the first week in April, reason to explore what makes a really great egg salad. Hard-cooked eggs with mayo isn’t egg salad, but a recipe called Eggs Mayonnaise. It’s pretty dull. You can add celery and onions to make egg salad and call it quits at that—but you can do…
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We’re having fun this month with savory whipped cream—to garnish soups, mains, even hors d’oeuvres. We’re using it instead of sour cream and crème fraîche. You can make a simple, salty whipped cream, curried whipped cream, garlic whipped cream or whipped cream infused with any of your favorite herbs. The idea is to flavor the…
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This tip is for lactose-intolerant people who avoid cheese. Even if you are lactose intolerant, you can enjoy cheese—it just needs to be aged cheese. In the cheese-making process, the liquid whey, which contains most of the lactose, is separated from the curd (the solids in the milk—they look like large-curd cottage cheese). Yet there…
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What to do with those bits and slivers of cheese left over from the party cheese board? Don’t wrap them up and stash them away—you’ll forget them and end up tossing them out weeks later. What a sad waste of cheese! Instead, plan some recipes to use them ASAP. Our favorites: Fondue Cheese omelets “Mixed…
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Ready for brunch: Scrambled eggs with our favorite mix-ins. Photo © California Asparagus Commission. To make fluffier scrambled eggs, add up to 5 teaspoons of milk per egg. As the eggs cook, the milk turns into steam, puffing up the eggs! The milk also adds a richer flavor to the eggs. We’re about to make…
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