How to master kitchen basics, from trussing poultry and segmenting oranges to deep-frying garlic and making tamarind liquid.
How To Make Orecchiette Pasta Like this recipe? Join my small-group Southern Italian food & wine tour to discover more traditional dishes! Orecchiette, meaning ‘little ears, is made using the same southern Italian pasta dough as cavatelli and foglie d’ulivo. It’s easiest to shape orecchiette if the dough is a little drier than for these […]
How To Make Foglie d’Ulivo Pasta Like this recipe? Join my small-group Southern Italian food & wine tour to discover more traditional dishes! Foglie d’ulivo are a very rustic southern Italian pasta named for the olive leaves their shape resembles. They will be somewhat irregular, just like olive leaves, so don’t try to make them […]
How To Make Cavatelli Pasta Like this recipe? Join my small-group Southern Italian food & wine tour to discover more traditional dishes! Cavatelli means ‘little hollows’ (related to the English word ‘cave’), a reference to its shell-like shape with hollows that are perfect for holding pasta sauce. Cavatelli appears all over southern Italy with all […]
Southern Italian Pasta Dough Like this recipe? Join my small-group Southern Italian food & wine tour and learn more delicious recipes with Mamma Marinella! When we talk about fresh pasta we’re often in northern Italy, where flour from soft wheat (farina di grano tenero) is combined with egg and the dough is usually rolled into […]
How To Temper Spices Master Kitchen Basics & Explore New Cuisines & Ingredients with My Online Cooking Classes Tempering is a technique used throughout the Indian sub-continent in which whole spices – and sometimes ingredients like curry leaves and dried chillies – are quickly fried in oil or ghee. The frying releases essential oils and […]
How To Roast Chestnuts In The Oven Master Kitchen Basics & Explore New Cuisines & Ingredients with My Online Cooking Classes Chestnuts are a favourite autumn and winter food throughout Europe with street stalls roasting them over braziers and selling them to passers-by. I often buy a cone of roasted chestnuts while wandering around the […]
How To Prepare & Cook Mussels Master Kitchen Basics & Explore New Cuisines & Ingredients with My Online Cooking Classes Once popular as snacks that could be freely harvested or bought cheaply (and known as ‘poor man’s oysters’), mussels are still one of the most affordable shellfish around. Australian mussels are called blue mussels due […]
How To Cook Duck With Crispy Skin Like Duck? Join Me For A Delicious Duck & Pinot Walk Soon! Cooks often ask me: ‘How do you get crispy skin on duck breasts?’ Duck is delicious, versatile and very easy to cook, especially if you use my technique for cooking duck breast with crispy skin. It’s […]
How To Clean Snail Shells Master Kitchen Basics & Explore New Cuisines & Ingredients with My Online Cooking Classes In the French dish of snails in garlic butter (escargots à la Bourguignonne) the snails are traditionally served in the shell. Snail shells can be purchased from specialty stores and online ready to be used. They […]
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