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Le Caramel is a new company with a line of caramel products based on recipes from Normandy. There are currently four products: Caramel sauce (called Caramel Cream) in salted vanilla or chocolate Caramel candies made with salted butter or chocolateThe candies and creams (sauces) are made in California in the traditional French method, slowly cooked…
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Our favorite mixing bowls are available at Amazon.com. Some of the mixing bowls on the market are so good-looking, they can go straight to table. There’s no need to use (and wash) a separate “serving dish.” We use these stacked melamine bowls in THE NIBBLE kitchen. Who cares that they have a spout: They add…
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Do you know shochu? Like vodka, it’s a grain-neutral spirit—in this case, distilled from barley, brown sugar, buckwheat, rice or sweet potatoes, instead of the potatoes, wheat or rye most often used for vodka. Like vodka, it isn’t aged, and thus it can be infused with a variety of flavors. But it has half the…
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A meat thermometer takes the guesswork out of cooking. Photo courtesy Polder. You don’t have a meat thermometer? How do you know when the meat is cooked? One technique, used by many, is the cut-and-view approach, slicing into the meat to see the color of the inside. This is a bad idea: It ensures that…
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For a few years now, verjus (vair-ZHOO) has been adopted in top culinary circles. But few consumers, even those who love to cook, know what it is. Verjus is the juice pressed from unripe grapes. The name means green juice in French, but the product dates back to at least ancient Rome (where it was…
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