How To: Make raw garlic and chilli infused olive oil
Luci Lock shows you how to avoid the heavy price tag and unhealthy processing of commercial flavored olive oils. You'll love this simple and delicious recipe for garlic chili olive oil.
Luci Lock shows you how to avoid the heavy price tag and unhealthy processing of commercial flavored olive oils. You'll love this simple and delicious recipe for garlic chili olive oil.
Older wines benefit from being decanted because when you bring oxygen to your wine it helps to bring out the flavor. Notice the choices available when choosing a decanter as you watch this how to video.
For a delicious low-fat, high-flavor frozen dessert you simply must watch and try this recipe for pomegranate granita. Granita is an italian frozen dessert. With this recipe, you can also use other juices.
Italian salsa verde is a parsley-based sauce flavored with salty seasonings like anchovies and capers. You can enjoy this easy salsa verde over pasta, meat, or fish. You will need anchovy filets, capers, canned tuna, olive oil, parsley, lemon, pepper and a galic clove. This sauce is like a parsley-based pesto and can be served with meat, fish, or pasta. You can store extra salsa verde in the freezer.
If you're looking for a sumptuous dinner idea tonight, why not try this buttered prawn dish with egg floss? We know that "egg floss" sounds weird (no, it's not like tooth floss), but it's actually those really thin, tender pieces of egg that float in egg drop soups. They're an attractive way to add flavor to any dish.
If you missed my performance at this year's Vegetarian Food Fair - or if you spent the whole session marveling at my incredible charisma and missed the actual content of the demo - here's a more permanent version. Like most things I do, the recipe changed since we shot this - try adding some apple cider vinegar to the mix for a different flavor!
Chef Sanjay shows us how to bake fish. He makes bass fish cooked in the oven with dill , coriander and garlic lime flavors. Try it with dill butter for a complete Indian taste.
A spicy Indian pancake made with onions, chili peppers, and a gram flour pancake batter, Besan Ka Puda will send your tastebuds on an exotic rollercoaster of flavors. Follow along with these hungry bachelors as they whip up a batch!
Aloo Matar Sabji is a traditional Indian dish made with potatoes, peas, coriander, and tumeric. Let the flavors of India explore your palate and try making this dish tonight.
Tired of fishing that garlic press out of the gadget drawer? Kitchen Contessa Dani Luzzatti doesn't mince words when it comes to discussing the bitter flavor that happens when forcing a garlic clove through a garlic press.
Prosciutto bits have a milder flavor than bacon. It is also leaner as it comes from the leg of the pig.
Why spend money on fancy garlic-flavored olive oil when you can make it yourself at home? Karen Holmes shows how to add pizzazz to a favorite dish with this easy and elegant garlic olive oil.
Watch this instructional video to learn how to remove the membrane off of ribs. Although it doesn't appear to be disrupting the flavor of your ribs - it is. Watch this video to learn how to remove it without ruining your ribs.
Julia Child and guest demonstrate how to make venison, quail, rabbit, duck, and wild boar bacon - all cooked over the grill and smoked with woodchips for a rustic, woodsy flavor. They use wild berries for a marinade.
Chicken soup is a classic dish that you'll enjoy eating for years to come. Learn how to make a delicious chicken soup from leftover roasted chicken. Virtually every culture around the world enjoys chicken soup, and though the flavors may vary from place to place, every version involves chicken, broth, vegetables and starch.
Baking is one of the easiest ways to cook chicken, because you can just put it in the oven and forget about it until it is done. We are going to be baking a double chicken breast. I am also going to show you how to make a lemon sauce that is quick and adds a lot of flavor to the dish. For the marinade you will need lemons, olive oil, garlic, mustard, thyme, salt and pepper.
Using one pot to cook all the ingredients, this shrimp and sausage jambalaya is an efficient way to combine your favorite flavors in one meal. Ingredients needed are cooked sausage, cooked shrimp, vegetable oil, minced garlic, double-strength tomato paste, salt, dried leaf thyme, cayenne pepper, saffron (optional), green onion, red and green bell pepper, can diced tomatoes and uncooked long grain rice.
Making applesauce at home gives it a fresh flavor that you can modify with a number of ingredients. Try these tips for homemade applesauce. You will need 1 apple per serving of applesauce. You should use an apple that won't discolor easily, like Cortland, Golden Delicious, Ida Red and McIntosh. You will also need water, sugar and lemon juice.
Have you ever eaten fresh macaroons straight from the oven? Take a bite out of these delightful macaroons, in both coconut and chocolate flavors. For this recipe you will need eggs, sugar, vanilla, shredded coconut and melted dark chocolate.
Fresh corn on the cob is so good but many people can't enjoy it on the cobb for one reason or another. Maybe you have dentures, and it is just too difficult. Learn how to cut the corn off the cobb so everyone can enjoy the flavor.
Though spinach is tasty when you eat it fresh, cooked spinach has a distinct and delicious flavor. Learn how to cook Popeye's favorite veggie three different ways.
What's the perfect Christmas drink for this holiday season... a candy cane martini. This festive winter drink is perfect for all of your holiday parties, even if it's Christmas in July that you're celebrating, or even Hanukkah. Watch as Art of the Drink's Anthony Caporale as he teaches you how to make this Candy Cane Christmas Martini.
Ah, wine. The bouquet fills your nose. The rich finish fills your mouth with soft flavors of oak and raspberries. The wine warms your belly and soothes your mind. Yeast and their biochemical factory help create this feast for your senses. Thanks to a research group from France, we now have a little more information on how that process works and a little more appreciation for yeast's contribution.
It's that time of the year, y'all—when the air becomes crisp, the nights grow long, and people crave hearty, warm soups and stews. And of all the season's offerings, my hands-down favorite has to be chili: It's versatile, meaty, and above all else, it's damn easy to make. (Thank you, Lord, for the slow cooker. Amen.)
Summer is a time for sangria sipped on the patio, enjoying the fruity refreshment with a friend while the smell of barbecue wafts from a distance. It's the perfect way to spend a lazy, hot August afternoon.
As a self-proclaimed chocoholic, any day with chocolate mousse in it is a good day in my book. And thanks to prominent chemist Hervé This, one of the founding fathers of molecular gastronomy, chocolate mousse is not only easy to make every single day—but only requires two ingredients.
No summer season would be complete without potato salad, an essential side dish. The flavors and textures of a simple potato salad can be totally satisfying as is, but add in a few items and you can have a dish that is absolutely extraordinary.
You've probably noticed artichokes at the front and center of your local grocery store or farmer's market recently, as spring is artichoke season; They may look like strange, complicated vegetables if you've never cooked them before.
I'll be the first to admit that I have a problem: I'm utterly addicted to tea.
Everyone knows how fantastic olive oil is as a salad dressing. But did you know that this healthy and superbly tasting oil pressed from full-grown olives can be used in so many other ways than flavouring those greens? I will tell you 20 other uses and benefits that can be done with olive oil.
I like to think of myself as a pretty calm and even-keeled person. I rarely get angry or annoyed, and I don't even get peeved very frequently.
Jerky is one of the tastiest snacks in existence. It's packed with richness, saltiness, and spiciness, and it's one of those things that you can't stop eating once you start. It's also fairly expensive, unless you're opting for the gas station variety which is… er… jerky in the same way that Folgers is coffee.
As much as I love eating weird foods, when it comes to my favorite food, there is only one simple choice: cheese. Since cheese is my favorite to eat, it should come as no surprise that it's one of my favorites to make as well.
Like cigars and whiskey, Lapsang Souchong tea is an acquired taste. Some people never get over the pungent, tarry flavor and intense smell of the beverage, but using it as a rub, marinade, or other seasoning is totally smart. The tea adds a smoky yet not overwhelming flavor to dishes of all kinds. With it, you can easily get barbecue-like results for meats and vegetables, all without breaking out the grill. Lapsang Souchong tea smells like a dry campfire and tastes like a smoked sausage cooke...
Holidays are a time for good food and good drink, but more often than not, we substitute good drink for, well, cheap drink. However, cheap wine doesn't have to be bad.
Bad news, guys. The shelf life for liquor leftovers does not apply to your two-buck chuck. While an opened bottle of your favorite whiskey will stay respectable for ages thanks to its high ABV (which makes it inhospitable to outside elements), an opened bottle of merlot will sour quickly. However, it turns out that red and white wines have different life spans once they're opened—for reasons which we'll cover below.
One of my favorite things is finding an easy way to make what is normally a complex dish. Case in point: pasta sauce. Usually its depth of flavor is the result of fresh herbs, shallots, tomatoes, seasonings, olive oil, and a touch of dairy being cooked and added in stages. Long simmering mellows out each component's inherent character and turns pasta sauce into something that is far greater than the sum of its parts.
Despite what their name implies, brownies don't have to be, well, brown. Substituting white chocolate for milk chocolate, this recipe for blonde brownies topped with maple syrup sauce is too decadent to pass up.
In this video tutorial, learn how to make delicious Korean stuffed peppers. This particular recipe calls for beef & is very spicy so be warned! Tips & info from the cook:
You will be sure to win over anyone with some decadent homemade chocolate truffles. These are so impressive and rich and the best part is they’re surprisingly easy. Chef Alex will show you a few professional tricks to make this a sensational dessert.