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[1] Ice Cream Volcano. A copycat recipe is below. The number 5 is a design in the plate (photo © NYY Steak | New York City). When we were browsing the Facebook page of NYY Steak located in Yankee Stadium, we came across this photo and uttered Tina Fey’s mantra: “What the what?” It…
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Horseradish root, grated root and prepared horseradish (in dish). Photo courtesy Microplane. While Americans are piling on the hot sauce, they’re overlooking horseradish—a different kind of hot and spicy. Horseradish, Amoriacia rusticana, is a pungent root vegetable with a long history of culinary and medicinal uses. Popular among ancient Greeks and Romans, this Old…
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If you hadn’t read the headline, would you be able to name this vegetable? Botanists might call it Pachyrhizus erosus, but we know it as jícama (HEEK-uh-muh) or alternatively, the Mexican yam or Mexican turnip, although, as it is so often in popular nomenclature, jicama is not related botanically to either the yam or the…
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It must be “egg day” at THE NIBBLE: We just finished an article on the new pullet eggs (“farmer’s eggs”) from Fresh Direct. And now, some suggestions for leftover egg whites. More than a few recipes require just the yolk of the egg: custard (including crème brûlée), egg nog, hollandaise sauce, Key lime pie, mayonnaise…
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Today’s tip comes from guest blogger Hannah Kaminsky of Bittersweet Blog. Her recommendation: clementines, a small mandarin. Note that it’s a “mandarin,” not a “mandarin orange”; the two are separate genuses (more about that below). But even Produce Pete calls clementines and mandarins “oranges,” so do what you can to spread the truth. “I’m infusing…
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