As a follow up to the last {Friday Series} post, I’m going to cover the other set of ingredients which give food amazing flavor and aroma: spices. A spice is typically a dried seed, fruit, bark or vegetative substance and is added to food to enhance flavor, color or aroma. What distinguishes spices from herbs?…
Friday Series
{Tips & Tricks} Cooking with Herbs
Whether you prefer to use fresh or dried herbs, adding them to a recipe is a quick way to transform a meal from being good to excellent. Plus, not only do herbs help flavor foods, researchers are finding that many herbs have antioxidants that help protect us against various diseases and cancers. These little leaves…
{Tips & Tricks} Cutting and Slicing Vegetables
I am excited to announce that today marks the beginning of the How To: Simplify Friday series call {Tips and Tricks}. Every Friday, I will be sharing with you tips and tricks to simplify life in the kitchen. I would like to begin the series with something that I know will be very helpful when…