food
Information about food, meaning anything solid eaten for sustenance - solid to distinguish it from beverages.
Easy dinner party recipes
Dinner parties do not have to involve an overwhelming amount of work or cost a fortune. Try these easy and frugal ideas, and enjoy hosting your dinner party.
Asafoetida
Tastes much better than what its unpleasant smell suggests. Once cooked the flavor is a blend of garlic and onions. Used in Indian cuisine, mainly in vegetarian curries or lentil dishes.
Anise or aniseed
Hint of mild licorice. Used in cakes, baking and confectionery and to flavor alcoholic drinks.
Food and your teeth
Healthy teeth mean more than flashing smiles, they are the first step for proper nutrition and no one realizes how important teeth are until we start loosing them.
Wine, spirits, and beer in cooking
Using wine or beer for cooking is a tradition in wine growing countries. This practice is spreading along with the interest in wine developing in other countries.
Scents and flowers
Their use in cooking is very old though they lost their appeal in every day cooking. They are a new flavor experience that it is not out of reach.
Spice mixes and pastes
Ingredients and proportions for selected spice mixes and pastes. Always natural cooking, using natural ingredients, flavors, condiments, herbs and spices.
Milk flavors
Milk, and milk products, can be used to flavor other food, apart from being main ingredients in a variety of dishes.
Extracts and concentrates
Extracts are made commercially, but were once produced in the kitchen. Meat, fish, and vegetable extracts may have a place in natural cooking, when you how to use them.
Savory
Savory is usually one of the herbs added to the herbs the Provence mix. There are two main varieties, winter savory and summer savory.