Every year, around the American Thanksgiving holiday, the internet seems to be full of cranberries again. We’ve looked at these native to North America fruits before, when using a flavour pairing tool to determine that they work great with brie and walnuts. But there’s more to cranberries for the curious …
If you’re not American (or Canadian), apple cider to you will be an alcoholic beverage, made from apples. However, I just recently discovered that in the US, apple cider actually refers to a non-alcoholic drink. It’s more like an apple juice, but then slightly different (how different differs per state!). …
Fruits and vegetables have a great wide variety of colours. The spectrum goes from orange to purple to green to bright red. It’s amazing how nature has developed all these bright and beautiful colours. In most cases these colours originate from a group of molecules inside the plant. The unique …
Poached pears are soft and juicy, whereas a ripe fresh pear has a nice crunch to it. Raw carrots crunch and you need a firm bite to break a bit of, but, the carrots which have been boiling in your soup for more than an hour are beautifully soft and …
It’s bright red but slightly translucent, has a peculiar flavour, is full of sugar, keeps for a long time and used in typical British cakes. When using them in a cake, you should be cutting them in small pieces, rinse them and dust them with flour ensure they don’t sink …
Should you buy a banana ripe or unripe? And what about strawberries? Or pineapple, avocado, green beans or Brussels sprouts? Your first reaction might be that it depends. It can depend on when you’ll be eating it. If you don’t plan on using it within a week, you might prefer …
Anyone who’s developed a new recipe, which can be as simple as throwing some ingredients in a wok, will know that one of the tricks of a good recipe is the flavour combinations you make. Red cabbage works well with apple sauce, apple pie works well with cinnamon, fish sauce …
Once you’ve peeled your banana, you’d better eat it. If you forget about it and return a few hours later it will have turned an unappetizing brown. Same goes for leaving an unpeeled banana on your counter top for a few days. It might have been bright yellow when you …
If you have fruit trees or plants in your garden you’re probably also swamped with these fruits during certain times of the year. And who has enough space to store 5 kg of figs or 20kg of apples? Nowawadays commercial farmers have luckily found a solution for this. Fruits can …
Orange zest is an ingredient I tended to leave out of a recipe since I often didn’t have oranges in the house. However, once I learned how to make my own orange zest extract, it’s more of a staple in my kitchen. As a result, I add it to lots …
