Make Your Own Curry Powder & Chile Oil & The History Of Curry

[1] Homemade curry powder (photo © Savory Spice Shop | Facebook). [2] Coconut chicken curry with basmati saffron rice (photo © Cafe Spice). [3] Fish curry (photo © Sun Basket). [4] Keema curry, an Indian curry made of ground meat and minced vegetables (photo © Hannah Kaminsky | Bittersweet Blog). [5] Goat curry (photo ©…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Rethink The Dinner Salad

Looking for dinner salad ideas? Look no further than this alluring interpretation we had at Orsay, a restaurant in Manhattan that specializes in classic brasserie fare (with some modern dishes like this French-style “dinner salad”). You can also serve it as a luncheon salad, or as a first course to a larger meal. The concept…
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PASSOVER: Our Favorite Treat For Everyone

Matzo “toffee”: white chocolate with pistachios and dark chocolate with almonds. Photo courtesy MysteryLoversKitchen.com.   Passover food and beverages (including wine) are a $2.5 billion to $3 billion industry. It sounds unbelievable, but according to KosherToday.com, some 30,000 different kosher-for-Passover products were produced specifically for Passover 2012. You may see shelves at the supermarket filled…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make Your Own Marshmallow Peeps

Marshmallow Peeps are an Easter tradition in many homes. Even people with very refined palates reach for them, a grasp at childhood nostalgia. But over the years they’ve tasted worse and worse to us—artificial flavor, and more texture than flavor at that! Perhaps it’s the carnauba wax. The mass production has taken away their good…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: National Cordon Bleu Day & Cordon Bleu Chicken Recipe

April 4th is National Cordon Bleu Day.     THE HISTORY OF CORDON BLEU Le Cordon Bleu (French for “The Blue Ribbon”) is the world’s largest school for hospitality education, for both cooks, service and management personnel. Originating in France, it now has 35 schools on five continents. The inspiration for the school began in…
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