| Culinary Articles |
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Cooking Dictionary - Use
our culinary dictionary which includes ingredient and culinary terms. A work
in progress -- In addition to definitions we are adding photos, nutritional information,
substitutions, recipes, as well as links to where to buy and where to go
for more
information. |
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Allspice |
| Artichokes |
| Arugula |
| Basic
Cooking Stocks - Meat, Vegetable, Fish, and Chicken |
| Broccoli
Rabe |
| Best
Festivals In the West |
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Blood Oranges - Blood oranges are juicy, sweet
and have a dark red interior and are slightly less acidic than regular
table oranges . Originally from Sicily the blood orange has gained in
popularity in the US and can be found fresh or in juice form in many
grocery stores. |
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Buttermilk
- Substitutes, recipes, use leftover |
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Can Sizes - Standard U.S. Can Sizes
and Equivalents |
| Cardamom |
| Cheese
& Wine Pairing Guide |
| Cheesemaking
Recipes |
| Chickens,
Squab, Capon Learn about poultry types and their uses |
| Chili
Pepper Heat |
| Chipotle Chili |
| Chocolate
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Chocolate Pot - Learn about the
traditional pot used for serving drinking chocolate. |
| Cilantro |
| Clean
Out That Refrigerator - When to throw out the foods we store |
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Convection Oven - Tips
for recipe adjustments when using a convection oven. |
| Corn,
Maize, Masa, Nixtamal |
| Corn Tortillas - Illustrated instructions |
| Cut
Up a Whole Chicken |
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Eggplant - History, information, nutrition,
recipes, how to grow. |
| Epazote -
Mexican Herb |
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Escargot - Out of the garden and onto your
plate! |
| Fingerlings - Fingerling potatoes |
| Flat
Iron Steak |
| Flour
Tortillas - Instructions & Information |
| Fondue
- History, Recipes, Tools |
| Garlic |
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Granita - History, recipes, information about
this Italian frozen dessert. |
| Green
Garlic |
| Ground
Beef - Make your own at home |
| Guide to Culinary Salts |
| Herbs
& Spices - How to Store |
| Huitlacoche
(cuitlacoche) - Corn Fungus - Mexican Corn Truffle |
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Kampayo - Dried Gourd strips used for sushi and
other Japanese food "bundles" |
| Lemon Grass |
| Left Over Egg Whites |
| Left
Over Egg Yolks |
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Masala Dabba - Article about the
traditional Indian spice box |
| Metate
y Mano - Flat corn grinding tool |
| Mortar and Pestle
- Traditional tools including the suribachi, Thai granite mortar and
pestle, metates, molcajetes and more. |
| Nopalitos |
| Nutrition
Labels - How to read and
understand U.S. standard nutrition labels |
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Pandanas - or Pandan, uses for the leaves of
the pandan plant. Recipe links. Pandan essence. |
| Papalo
- Also called Papaloquelite porophyllum
ruderale or macrocephalum. An herb, similar to cilantro used in Mexican
cooking. |
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Pepitas - Pumpkin Seeds |
| Piloncillo - Mexican Dark Brown Sugar |
| Plantain
- The Cooking Banana |
| Pomolo |
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Portion Scoop Size Equivalents
- A chart of food scoop sizes by number and their equivalent capacity in
ounces. |
| Portobellos
(Portabellas) Mushrooms |
| Radicchio |
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Relish - Short article about the history and
types of relish. |
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Rice Cookers - How to select,
learn about basic features |
| Roast
Chiles - How to roast chiles at home |
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Saffron - The most expensive spice in the
world |
| Santa Cruz County Winery List |
| Santa Cruz County,
California Winery Map |
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Savory - Winter and Summer
Herb |
| Seitan
- Wheat Meat, Meat Substitute |
| Soy - Health
Benefits of Soy |
| Stevia
- Natural Sugar Substitute |
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Substitutions - Nonalcoholic
Substitutes for Wines, Spirits and Liqueurs |
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Substitutions - Cooking
Dictionary Including Equivalents and Substitutions |
| Tamales
- History, Varieties Recipes |
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Tamarind (Tamarindo) |
| Thai
Granite (Stone) Mortar Pestle Favorite of the Naked Chef |
| Tomatillo
- Husk tomatoes for salsa verde |
| Truffles
- Fabulous Fungus |
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Vanilla - A cook's guide to
the
various forms of vanilla, how
to use them and how to substitute one for the other. |
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Verdolaga - A North American native green
also referred to as purslane. It is gathered wild in Mexico and used raw
in salads and cooked in stews. |
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Verjus - Learn about this juice of unripened
grapes, history, uses, recipes. |
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Yuzu - Read about the Japanese citrus in various
forms, juice, vinegar, dried. |
