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A cappuccino wouldn’t be the drink it is without a foamy milk layer on top. The same goes for a latte, macchiato and many other fancy ‘coffee shop drinks’. It changes them from a simple cup of coffee into something…
Sure, you can make bread with just four ingredients: flour, water, yeast, and salt. But, add a few more, and even more opportunities open up. Softer, sweeter, more tender breads start to become possible as well, by simply adding a…
There is not one way to make cheese. Instead, there are hundreds, if not thousands of ways to make cheese. Resulting in countless different types of cheese with each their own characteristics. Even within one variety, there are countless little…
If you wanted to make cheese at home, but never got to it. Why not start making paneer? Paneer is one of the easiest cheese to make. All you need to make this Indian cheese are milk and acid. The…
It’s the contrast between its soft and silky inside and crackly brown top which makes a creme brulee such a great dessert. Yet it’s simple to make. No long list of ingredients, nor complex processes are required. Instead, making a…
This rich, creamy, sweet, brown, milky sweet is downright delicious. Dulce de leche is immensely popular in Latin America and there exist a lot of ways to make it. We experimented with several methods: using a pressure cooker, oven, and…
There aren’t a lot of desserts that require quite minimum effort and still look highly sophisticated. Panna cotta though is one of the few desserts that does fall into that category. Made with as little as three ingredients (cream, sugar,…
A rice pudding, isn’t that just a regular, simple dessert? Nothing special or fancy? After making a rice pudding the other day (for testing The Turkish Cookbook), and of course, making several steps along the way, I thought the contrary:…
There are a lot of different creams out these in the supermarket nowadays. An acidic sour cream to top a baked potato, a heavy whipping cream to top your apple pie and so many more. Clotted cream is yet another…
Chances are you’ve had a pizza that was covered with mozzarella. It is one of the most common cheeses for a pizza. It melts very well on top of your pizza and turns a nice brown. The mozzarella used on…
Just like a sourdough starter, yogurt is a self supplying food. Once you’ve got yogurt, all you need is extra milk and some patience. With those you continue making new yogurt from your yogurt! Just as with a sourdough starter,…
Do you like cheese on top of your (vegetarian) burger? If so, what type? A slice of ‘regular’ cheese? Or a special pre-packaged slice of ‘hamburger cheese’? If you chose the second option, most likely, you’ve chosen processed cheese. It’s…