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I once was a professional cook. It seems ages ago and was but, it is still so fresh in my mind that I often drift back to those crazy times of making recipes for a few hundred people at a time. It was a time of very large bowls and long giant sized mixi ...

recipe - Jennie - 15 Mar 2007 - 11:08pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments

... used by the lower classes, mixed with ingredients like apples, currants, mace, cloves and nutmeg. They would be combined in a large ...

reference - anon (not verified) - 11 Nov 2010 - 5:05pm - 0 comments - 1 attachment

I Love ribs but was always too fearful to try cooking them. I know what I like and it is difficult to find them. Neither my mother’s nor most restaurant’s made me want more. Then I happened upon the ‘secret’ to fall-off-t ...

recipe - Beth - 26 Oct 2009 - 4:07am - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Perforate brown paper bag. Place ripe apple into bag with banana and close. Let sit at room temperature for a day or two. To expand or improve this reference page, click here . (banana, tip) ...

reference - anon (not verified) - 10 Oct 2006 - 6:08pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Tomatillos are a fruit popular with Mexican and Southwestern cooking. Resembling a small green tomato, tomatillos can be distinguished by they’re thin parchment paper like wrapping. The flavor hints at apple and lemon and are most often us ...

reference - anon (not verified) - 8 Jun 2007 - 3:30am - 0 comments - 1 attachment

... mandarin oranges, oranges, blood oranges, dates, Fuji apples , carrots, Asian pear, Bartlett pear, pistachios (shelled), cherry ...

recipe - Andrew - 24 May 2010 - 7:33pm - 2 comments - 1 attachment

Peanut butter was first introduced in 1904 at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, although it had been sold as a medical nutritional supplement in St. Louis, Missouri for about 15 years. The modern, creamy version was invented in 1922 by Joseph L. Rosefi ...

reference - anon (not verified) - 26 Oct 2006 - 9:50pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Fig newtons are best homemade. This is best when figs are in season. This makes about 35-40 cookies. Ready Filling: 1 Cup Figs 1 ½ Cup Water 1 Cup Apple Juice ¼ Cup sugar ⅛ tsp grated orange zest Doug ...

recipe - John - 21 Aug 2017 - 7:31pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The first time I ate a pluot (see Charlotte’s great recipe ) I figured it was an obscure plum from the South of France, pronounced ploo-oh . Subsequently I learned it is engineered and is a cross between a plum and an apricot. Among the ...

story - David - 25 Jul 2007 - 9:51pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments

I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to buy food that is labeled organic. I am always skeptical of labels and doubly so when they become widely adopted. Can farm raised fish legitimately share the same organic label as an apple grown with ...

forum topic - Andrew - 7 Feb 2007 - 7:43pm - 2 comments - 0 attachments