Tag: Leeks

COOKING VIDEO: How To Clean Leeks

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  Looking like enormous scallions, leeks are cousins to onions and garlic. The flavor and aroma is evocative of, but much milder than, onions. Leeks are served raw, braised, fried and sautéed, alone or as part of a more complex recipe. Typically, recipes call for only the white base and very light green portion of…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Leeks

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Lovely leeks. Photo by Marlon Paul Bruin |SXC.   On this past Sunday’s episode of Desperate Housewives, Susan Mayer had no idea what the long white vegetable that looked like a ginormous scallion was. While it seems improbable that anyone who has ever strolled through a produce aisle can’t recognize a leek, it gave us…
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