Category: Recipes

TIP OF THE DAY: Compound Butter For “Instant” Sauces

Posted on by thenibble

Want to become a more impressive cook instantly? Use compound butter! Also known as finishing butter, or beurre composé in French, it’s unsalted butter that has been blended with seasonings. There are endless variations. Escoffier published 35 combinations in 1903, and cuisine has evolved in many directions since his classic renderings of anchovy butter and…
Continue reading “TIP OF THE DAY: Compound Butter For “Instant” Sauces” →

TIP OF THE DAY: How To Dissolve Sugar In Cold Drinks

Posted on by thenibble

Sugar dissolves slowly in cold liquids. Photo by K.G. Toh | CSP   As most people have discovered, table sugar is slow to dissolve in cold drinks. Whether you’re sweetening iced coffee and iced tea or making a sweet cocktail, there are better products to use than conventional granulated sugar. Superfine Sugar Pick up some…
Continue reading “TIP OF THE DAY: How To Dissolve Sugar In Cold Drinks” →

FOOD HOLIDAY: National Ceviche Day & Ceviche Recipes

Posted on by thenibble

June 28th is National Ceviche Day in Peru, where it’s one of the national dishes. The holiday has arrived in the U.S.—a healthy celebration for trying new ceviche recipes. Ceviche—shellfish cured by citrus juice acid—has been popular in Latin America for many centuries. It dates some 2,000 years to an Inca dish of raw marinated…
Continue reading “FOOD HOLIDAY: National Ceviche Day & Ceviche Recipes” →

PRODUCT: Cetara Anchovies & Anchovy Pasta Recipe

Posted on by thenibble

Anchovies get a bad rap in the U.S. They typically appear on “most hated foods” lists. That’s because many people were first introduced to cheap, oily, odoriferus, overly salty and “fishy” tasting examples on pizzas or in Caesar salads at the local diner. One reason those anchovies are so intense is that casual restaurants don’t…
Continue reading “PRODUCT: Cetara Anchovies & Anchovy Pasta Recipe” →

COOKING VIDEO: Healthy Chips And Dip

Posted on by thenibble

  As a nation, we love crunchy snacks and creamy dips. As calorie counters, we don’t. In this video, chef Curtis Stone shows how easy it is to make your own lowfat baked chips (commercial chips can have 30% fat) and lowfat, low-calorie dips. They taste good and keep you looking good (Chef Stone looks…
Continue reading “COOKING VIDEO: Healthy Chips And Dip” →