New Chow Tips! Video on Horchata/Rice Milk
Thank you, Chow! I love doing videos with you. Here’s my latest and greatest – rice milk and horchata recipe demonstration in 52 seconds – with two more scheduled to …
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Kitchen Hack Fail: Don’t Dehydrate Fruit in the Clothes Dryer (Oh, and a Recipe for Chewy Dried Orange Slices)
So, like other food preservationists and kitchen tinkerers, I love to dry things – fruit slices, fruit leather, cheese, beef jerky, etc. In the heat of summer the sun does …
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Epic Food Market Fail (With a Triumphant Recipe for Celery Soda)
I recently tried (and failed) to sell corned beef sandwiches at the New Taste Marketplace food hall. This is a cautionary tale/headnote – one of those “life lessons” to be …
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Cranberry Plum Butter recipe
LOVE this, and I will be making more. Only thing I did not take careful enough notes on is how long it takes to reduce – I believe it was …
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Rumkirschen Recipe
My German friend Dannie brought me a jar of this as a gift, and I love it so much that I’ve refilled the jar without pause for months. The traditional …
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Roasted Garbanzos
A cheap can of beans meets garlic, olive oil, and whatever spice you have in your pantry to develop a nutty texture that rivals the best Corn Nuts you’ve ever …
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Regular Ol’ Tomato Ketchup Recipe (But Better)
If you’re craving the taste of that stuff that comes with the burger at your fave fast food chain, this recipe is bound to disappoint. This catsup actually has flavor, …
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Nosebleed Mustard
Notes The only difficult part of this recipe is waiting two full weeks for the flavors to develop. Taste it before then, and it will be bitingly bitter. But when …
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