The other night Robert brought home a catering magazine detailing all that latest catering supplies that we mere supermarket shoppers will never get to see (including Uncle Ben’s sauces in what looks like stocky fizzy pop bottles, talk about buying in bulk!). Amongst the various ideas and recipes was a small piece on the cheeses…
You’re standing in the produce aisle, surrounded by apple varieties you’ve never heard of. Or maybe you’ve just returned from an orchard with a bushel of fresh-picked apples and no idea what to do with them all. Perhaps you’re mid-recipe when you realize you need a Granny Smith but only have Gala apples on hand….
So you have this bag of nectarines and they look very tasty, with their plush orange skin. Of course, you can peel them and pop out the pit then just munch them like a normal fruit. But what if you want to do more than that? Here are the top 7 things to do with…
Cheese gets a bit of a bad reputation because it is a dairy product and it has a higher fat content. But that doesn’t really tell the story of all of the cheeses out there. And there’s more to cooking with cheese than just worrying about the negatives – there’s the benefits that it can…
You’re halfway through prepping dinner when disaster strikes. The chicken in your fridge has gone bad, your vegetarian friend just arrived unexpectedly, or you’re simply tired of the same protein every week. Don’t panic and don’t order takeout just yet. Finding the right chicken substitute can transform your cooking game and open up a world…
If there’s one ingredient worth picking up on your next supermarket run, gochujang is it. This deeply savoury Korean chili paste has the kind of flavour that makes a bowl of plain noodles taste like it took an hour to make — when in reality you’ve barely had time to boil the water. The beauty…
If you’ve ever opened your fridge at 6pm with no plan and zero inspiration, harissa is the ingredient that could genuinely change that. One jar — from the condiment aisle, usually sitting quietly next to the tahini — can turn plain chicken into something you’d happily serve at a dinner party, make a can of…
Compound butter is a great way to take mere butter and create something with much more taste – garlic butter is a classic example but there are many more!
There’s no doubt that the improvements in transportation methods over the last few decades have opened up a whole world of new foods. My dad used to work in fruit and veg and he often speaks about seasonal fruit as well as that many of the foods we take for granted today weren’t easily available…
There’s a good reason we are all getting a bit suspicious of the so-called superfoods – there seem to be so many of them and not always a lot of scientific evidence to back them up. The case of the acai berries is a classic one – adopted as a superfood, some people seem to…
Most of the time when we add heat to a dish, we do it with a type of pepper. But there are a few of them and each is a little different! Here we are going to look at how to use cayenne pepper, what you can dow with it and if it is healthy?…
Watermelon is one of the most recognisable fruit when it is cut into pieces – that bright green skin and distinctive pink flesh. Sure, there’s a lot of water in the watermelon but there’s also a lot of taste. Here are eight things to do with watermelon to inspire you. Meet the watermelon The watermelon comes…
