Cooking on live fires and in the kitchen
I frequently use fresh ginger, and most of the time I like to use fresh ginger juice. While I also use grated ginger, ginger powder, and ginger chopped or sliced in a bunch of ways, ginger juice has a lot of benefits. First of all – what is ginger juice? It is simply the juice …
The pork sirloin tip roast is a great piece of meat for the price. It is what the name implies – the tip of the sirloin from between the leg and the pork loin. It has been carried regularly at Costco in recent years and is sold in 4 packs. You can also find it …
Burnt tomatoes are NOT roasted tomatoes. They are tomatoes (usually small cherry types) that have had the sliced side charred to black without cooking the inside of the tomato at all. Ideally the inside of the tomato shouldn’t get warmer than room temperature. Any small tomato works well with this technique, my favorite to use …
What makes fennel so great? For starters, it keeps for a very long time, so it is a good thing to have as a staple in your vegetable drawer. Roasted fennel also keeps well and can be coal or fire roasted on the weekend and used as an ingredient in many dishes throughout the week. …
Apparently arugula has a recent history of being used as some sort of political/cultural put down, as though it’s some super fancy vegetable. Nothing could be further from the truth, in many ways it’s the perfect survivalist vegetable! It is a green that has a real flavor to it, getting spicy as it matures, and …
