I know it’s almost impossible to pass by the fruit area in the supermarket and not be tempted to buy kumquats when you see them. But if you buy too much, the next question is how you should store kumquats to keep them fresh for as long as possible. They look cute, like grape-sized oranges, …
When you first try bok choy and find out what it tastes like, you most probably want to buy more for later use. But since it is like two veggies in one, and I mean that it has a stem very close to cabbage and leaves that are more like lettuce, it is hard to …
Bok choy is not the most common plant in the west, so it’s quite normal when you first see it to ask yourself what does it taste like. It looks like a combination of celery root with lettuce leaves but does it taste like them? You can very often see bok choy as an ingredient …
If you are in a situation where you have way too many serrano peppers, you probably won’t eat them in the next several days. You should not worry because there are a few ways to store them for longer. We will get to each of them in this article. I know how it is to …
To understand what dijon mustard tastes like, we have to know a bit of history about this so popular mustard type. Because the original recipe for dijon mustard is not the one that is most often used today. Dijon mustard origins Dijon mustard originates from the town of Dijon, the capital of the Burgundy region …
If you really like Indian food but have a hard time deciding what to order from an Indian restaurant, you are not alone. I know the feeling since there are a lot of different sauce types that have various ingredients, but the name doesn’t tell you a lot about what they are made of. This …
There are many situations when you can find yourself with a cooked chicken left on the counter for several hours or even overnight. Maybe you have guests that are a bit late as guests usually are, and you prepared your meal hoping that they will arrive on time. Or you had chicken for dinner and …
I heard some people on cooking forums questioning why sugar is considered a wet ingredient while salt is considered a dry ingredient. This is a very good question since it is pretty obvious that both of them are actually dry. The confusing thing is that in recipes, you categorize ingredients by wet and dry in …
Have you ever thought of eating raw leeks? They look and smell pretty much like onions that can be eaten raw, so naturally, you will wonder if leeks can be eaten raw as well. But the fact that leeks and onions have many similarities doesn’t mean that they are the same, so you thought to …
Even if it may be obvious that lemon zest and lemon juice are not the same things, they can be substituted with each other in some recipes, while in other recipes, there is no way you can use substitute them. So I thought I would check for every difference that people noticed between lemon zest …
Did you ever make a soup or any other food containing parsnip, and when peeling it, you asked yourself, is it good to be eaten raw? This question came through my mind, but I didn’t try since I don’t like the raw parsnip smell. So I decided to research the topic a bit, first to …
You probably found yourself in a situation where you don’t have the time to wait for your cheesecake to cool by itself on the countertop. Maybe you have guests, and you underestimated how much it takes to make and bake the cheesecake and other staff you prepare for your dear guests. Or maybe you don’t …
There is a fine line between undercooked scrambled eggs, and overcooked/burned scrambled eggs, so it is perfectly ok to ask yourself when are scrambled eggs fully done. This can be a taste thing because not all of us like scrambled eggs the same way, but there are certain things to look for. I checked a …
It happens that you plan to bake pizza or bread in a few hours, but life gets in your way, so you must change your plans, but you already kneaded the dough. So, in this case, you need to know how much you can store the dough in the fridge. Also, I guess the exact …
If you never cooked liver before or didn’t soak it in milk, somehow soaking the liver in milk sounds strange. Don’t worry, you are not alone. I cooked liver before but didn’t soak it in milk, so when I first saw the idea, I thought I would do some research and write an article about …
There is a lot of confusion between marinara sauce, tomato sauce, and bolognese sauce, and it’s totally understandable. They look the same, and in many cases, people who will serve you at a restaurant don’t know the difference either. After all, not everybody is an Italian Chef. Me neither, so I decided to do a …
I know that moment when you forget to put your leftover food in the fridge overnight, and you wake up in the morning having a shock that your food is still on the kitchen countertop. This can happen with lasagna as well. Sometimes you think that it is still hot enough and is not safe …
The meat’s been out of the fridge for a few hours now. It happens to me all the time when I get the meat out of the freezer, and I’m not certain that it will thaw in time for when I want to cook it if I let it in the fridge. So I decided …
Ever wonder why we don’t use pasta(especially spaghetti) instead of noodles and vice versa? They do look very similar and are used similarly, so why not? I decided to do a little bit more research on this topic, and I found quite a few differences between pasta and noodles that I want to share with …
I know this might sound silly, but the question “is kohlrabi a root vegetable?” is actually a very good question since it looks like a lot like turnip, radish, celeriac, rutabaga, and many more others. Still, you will find out that they are not quite the same thing. I was very curious when I had …