Hard-Cooked Accouterments
Symbols of life and fertility, eggs are also incredibly edible! With so many uses in the kitchen, having the right tools is essential. Microwave egg boilers make flawless hard-cooked eggs every time. Egg slicers create perfect slices for ... [... more]
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Gumbo Basics
Gumbo is one of the most famous dishes to result from Louisiana's shared Creole-Cajun heritage. As varied as the recipes can be, there are a few ingredients that give the dish its identity as gumbo. Apart from good homemade stock, the first is ... [... more]
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Basic Soup Stocks: Vegetarian, Beef, and Chicken
Our grocery stores are crammed with canned, cubed, and powdered soup stocks. Pre-packaged broths have made it quick and easy to whip up a big, flavorful pot o' soup, rather than an all-day affair. But if time isn't an issue, why not do it the ... [... more]
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Cold Summer Soups
The king of cold soups is gazpacho. This Spanish soup has multiple variations, but the famous tomato-based gazpacho that originated in Andalucia in southern Spain has its roots in Roman and Moorish cuisines. Made with stale bread, olive oil, ... [... more]
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Making Vegetable Stock
A good vegetable stock is useful in a huge variety of dishes. Vegetable stock is not only an excellent substitute for chicken stock, but is ideal used in all vegetarian fare. To make 4 cups of vegetable stock we used 2 large onions, 2 medium ... [... more]
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Cooking Questions: Soup
The only way you can fix it is by adding more of the other ingredients to dilute it and balance it out. A commonly-suggested trick--adding potatoes--does not work. We suggest that, when adding any spice to a dish, add it in very small amounts, ... [... more]
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Making Beef Stock
A great base for many soups, sauces, stews, and other savory dishes. Beef stock is not the easiest stock to make at home, but it is a wonderful ingredient to have in the house. Making fresh beef stock requires about eight hours of simmering time ... [... more]
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Making Chicken Stock - Allrecipes
A step-by-step tutorial for making a staple in any non-vegetarian kitchen. Chicken stock is used as the base for many soups and sauces, as well as adding flavor and richness to rice dishes, stews, and pastas. A step-by-step tutorial for making ... [... more]
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Matzo Ball Soup
Follow our step-by-step instructions for making your own chicken stock. While there are several recipe variations for matzo balls, the basic formula for these dumplings contains matzo meal, eggs, chicken fat ( Most cooks have a few tricks for ... [... more]
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Making Roux
French for "red," a roux is a thickener for sauces and soups that combines equal parts flour and butter. While you might not know the term, you know the technique: a basic white sauce, such as the base for macaroni and cheese, uses a roux. Roux [... more]
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Making Stock
Economical homemade stock elevates the flavor of soups, stews and sauces. Slowly simmering stock draws flavor from fish, meat or poultry bones, aromatic vegetables and herbs. Perhaps the hardest part of making stock is simply remembering to save ... [... more]
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Split Pea Soup
Some people wouldn't dream of making split pea soup without soaking the peas in water overnight first. Overnight soaking does help to shorten the cooking time of the peas, but it's not a necessary part of the process. Unsoaked peas will take from ... [... more]
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