Tag: Uses

TIP OF THE DAY: Can You Substitute Kosher Salt Or Sea Salt For Table Salt?

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While salt can be ground into fine, medium or coarse textures, table salt (top) is always a fine grain, kosher salt (center) a coarser, flat grain, and sea salt anything from finely ground to naturally extra-coarse (bottom photo shows medium-coarse). Photo courtesy Saltworks.us.   Certain recipes specify kosher salt or sea salt instead of table…
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Uses For Extra Shallots & A Recipe For Shallot Vinaigrette

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[1] Shallot vinaigrette, a French classic, shown with Dutch yellow shallots. The recipe is below (photo © Good Eggs). [2] Shallot bulbs have individual cloves, which are peeled and sliced like garlic bulbs (photo © Burpee). [3] Mignonette sauce for oysters is shallot vinaigrette without the oil (photo © Whole Foods Market). [4] French red…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make Compound Butter (Flavored Butter )

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Beurre à la maître d’hotel, lemon parsley butter; crayfish compound butter for seafood; pasta tossed with truffle butter; roasted sea bass with herb butter; herb, bourbon-pecan, and gorgonzola butters, ready to spread on bread; last but not least, sweet compound butter for dessert or pancakes. Photos: Brown-Eyed Baker, Chef Michael O’Boyle, WKNOfm.org, Land O’Lakes, Feastie.com.…
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