Techniques

How to make homemade butter in a jar

Step 4 - Enjoy spread on bread

I was going through the fridge and noticed that we had part of a carton of heavy cream that wasn’t going to be used any-time soon, and rather than just throwing it out, I wondered if there was something I could do with it other than using it for desserts. In the back of my …

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Roasting a Whole Chicken is Easy

Roasted Whole Chicken

Roasting a Whole Chicken must be one of the four primary purposes for which a modern electric oven was intended to achieve. The other three being; baking a pie, cooking a casserole and roasting a cut of beef. Roasting a chicken, yet alone a turkey seems to strike fear in most people. The truth of …

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Fish and Rice Upside Down (Makloubet riz bel samak)

Makloubet riz bel samak

Makloubeh, which translates literally into “upside down”, is a famous Levantine dish. You will find different variants throughout Syria, Jordan, Palestine and Lebanon. What is unique about this meal is that it is a one pot meal of meat, rice, vegetables and spices that is flipped upside down onto a large platter before being served. …

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Summer Fresh Peach Sorbet

Fresh Homemade Peach Sorbet

Fresh fruit sorbet is probably one of the lesser enjoyed treats that is available, yet when it comes to experiencing desserts that closest represent the flavor and essence of ripe fruit there is few comparisons. Peach Sorbet is no exception and despite being cool, refreshing and exploding with the natural flavor of fresh picked peaches, …

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Homemade Sausage Recipes

Homemade Sausage Recipe

Fortunately coming from an Italian-American family where my grandfather’s generation were butchers, there are homemade sausage recipes that exists versus minor tweaking of existing published and posted recipes for making sausage in the kitchen. One of the joys of making sausage from a family recipe or loose following a published recipe is that there is …

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