If your idea of celebrating St. Patrick’s Day consists of eating green-dyed food and tossing back a few pints of Guinness at your local watering hole, then you’re missing out. There’s a whole wonderous culinary world of deliciousness beyond a simple pint of Ireland’s famous brew (no shade intended) and it starts with two pub…
Category: savory
Sunday Roast…injection of flavor
Whether it’s a lazy weekend or a busy midweek night, an invitingly plump, juicy roast chicken is the best kind of comfort food to close out the day. Sure, you can easily pick up one at the grocery store or even Costco, but there’s something so simply soothing about the aroma of roasting chicken wafting…
Rapid Infusions…or time’s a wastin’
Peruse the aisles of any specialty foods store, a gourmet retailer like Williams-Sonoma or Sur La Table, or even a Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s and you’ll discover a plethora of fancy pants sounding infused oils, vinegar, syrups, teas, coffees, liquors, etc., that not surprisingly also carry an equally fancy pants price tag. You’re intrigued…
Fearless Frying
Whip-It! contributing chef Gabriel Rucker of Portland’s famed Le Pigeon, Little Bird Bistro, and Canard loves using his Whip-It! brand stainless steel cream dispenser to make light as air crispy tempura batter. In fact, he says it’s one of his “favorite things to make with the dispenser.” Anyone who’s made tempura batter from scratch knows…
Creamy without the cream
The start of a new decade is a great incentive to push the restart button on your health and eating habits. Many of us make a resolution to do so on Jan. 1, but sticking to that resolution can be a tricky thing…especially when we’re bombarded by a plethora of Valentine’s Day treats a month later.
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