To prepare a simple boiled rice all you need is a medium-sized saucepan with a well fitting lid, a sieve, a fork, a teaspoon, and measuring cups. White rice is usually clean and does not need washing to remove dust or husk bits like brown rice does. This extra step rinses off excess starch and ensures that the cooked rice is not sticky.
The golden rule to cook rice is not to stir the rice once boiling. A second rule is to keep the lid or temperature will drop and the rice will clump. Stick to the first rule and ignore the second, a quick peek will not harm the cooking rice, and, how can you correct mistakes otherwise?
Christmas recipes abound. Everyone has his or her favorite. But many times the recipes are oriented towards the kids, because they enjoy sweets so much. Yet everyone also knows that chocolate knows no age boundary. Spicing it up with another adult favorite - alcohol - makes for a delightful combination. After all, 'tis the season to be merry!
The winter 2007 competition was asking you to put tasty fillings between bead and bread. This was the wining recipe: a sandwich that uses leftover roast turkey slices and cranberry sauce, placing them between slices of cranberry bread.
Piquillo peppers have their own unique flavor, sweet and spicy. You can serve this one as a sorbet. Or pour 1 cup of the cold cream in the ice cream maker and put mini scoops of piquillo pepper sorbet, as garnish, in the bowls with chilled soup.
This recipe is easy, simple, and offers many possible substitutions. The dough can be used to make blue corn muffins or cornbread. Endless variations for a creative mind.
Strawberries, or any other fruit, juiced and combined with skim milk make a healthy drink, much lighter in sugar and fat than the usual milk shakes and smoothies.
Tzatziki, a very simple sauce, is a great accompaniment to traditional Greek. Tzatziki can also be used as dip and not only in traditional Greek cooking, try it as filling for baked potatoes or served with fish fingers instead of tartar sauce.
