Ever wonder how many types of sugar and sweeteners exist for cooking and baking? Here is a glossary of common and uncommon sugars and sweeteners …
Types of Sugar: Sweetening Possibilities for Cooking and Baking
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Growing Curly Kale
Kale is such a beautiful plant with velvety green leaves and delicious flavor. One of the most common varieties is Curly Kale. Ideal Season: Cool Sun: Full …
Backyard Foraging: Finding Edible Weeds In My Garden
Foraging is on my list of things to try as I slowly learn the importance of food sources. Foraging is the act of searching for …
Pistachio Pesto Sauce
Pesto Sauce is typically made using pine nuts and basil, but I recently decided to make pistachio pesto sauce since I happened to have the …
Edible Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
Sometimes when I think of cookie dough, I’m reminded of baking cookies with my mom as a child. She always forbade that I taste the …
Teriyaki Sauce
If you’ve ever gone to a Japanese restaurant or Asian bistro in the United States, you might have tasted this mysterious, delicious, sauce artistically arranged …
Homemade Butter Pie Crust
A buttery, flakey pie crust is absolute heaven. I can imagine it now, a warm, buttery chunk with a mouthful of apple pie filling. This …
Homemade Vegetable Broth
In my post about how to make Chicken Stock, I expressed how appalled I was by the amount of food waste acceptable in today’s food …
Homemade Chicken Stock
While working in the food industry, I was appalled by the amount of food waste that was accepted. Gallons of reasonable if not perfect vegetables, …
Fig Jam
I always look forward to late summer and fall for figs. There’s a huge fig tree in my parents’ backyard that becomes thick with Brown …