On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee

Figs poached in port or a honey/water syrup with a small amount of lemon juice and lemon zest added after poaching are sweet and tasty. Using tongs, quickly toss the greens to coat them with oil. Your pan should be reasonably hot so that the greens quickly heat, but not so hot that the oil burns.

• Squid and octopus are notable exceptions to this weight-bearing rule, because their collagen provides the equivalent support that bone structures do for fish.
• Cooking is the application of heat to ingredients to transform them via chemical and physical reactions that improve flavor, reduce chances of foodborne illness, and increase nutritional value.
• The food writer and journalist says it was a Pole, Edouard de Pomiane, who taught the French housewife how to cook.
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Temper the hot milk into the yolk mixture by pouring a quarter of the hot liquid into the yolk mixture and whisking to combine. Pour the yolk mixture back into the saucepan, mix thoroughly, and return to low heat and cook, stirring, until slightly thickened (184°F / 84°C). Caramelize 1 cup of white chocolate by placing the white chocolate in a sauté pan and heating it over medium-low heat, keeping a watchful eye on it. Stir occasionally, taking care to prevent any bits from turning darker than medium brown. Keep an eye on the sugar until it begins to melt, at which point turn your burner down to low heat. Once the outer portions have melted and begin to turn brown, use a wooden spoon to stir the unmelted and melted portions together to distribute the heat more evenly and to avoid burning the hotter portions.

Smoked salmon pasta sounds really fancy, but the truth is it’s one of the easiest and fastest dinners we’ve ever made. It comes together in just under 30 minutes, making it the perfect dish to whip up for a weeknight seafood dinner, but still good enough to impress your guests for holidays and celebrations. Additionally, as commercially processed foods can be packaged in aluminum or contain food additives that contain it, they may have higher levels of aluminum than their homemade equivalents . Such studies have caused concern that the regular use of aluminum foil in cooking could be harmful to your health .

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Make longer matches to earn power ups & finish with many moves remaining to boost your score and earn a 3-star rating on each stage. Apples is a match 3 bubble shooting game where you try to remove all the apples from the playing field before any of them get down to the line near the bottom of the screen. If you hit a match that connects other apples to the top & those apples have no other connections then that whole part of the chain will fall off.

Here we changed up the classic penne alla vodka by adding in ground turkey. The result is a creamy pasta that satisfies every carb craving possible with a little extra boost of protein. If a bowl of creamy, earthy, umami-rich pasta sounds good to you, give this flexible recipe a go. It tastes great with any variety of mushrooms, and is easily adapted with alternate alliums, herbs, nuts, pasta shapes, and hard cheeses. Got some leftover roasted chicken or rotisserie chicken? Buffalo sauce is one of our favorite ways to doctor our leftovers, and if you’ve still got some leftover rotisserie chicken, you’ve got to try this combo in our Buffalo baked ziti recipe.

Many restaurants serve portions that are two to three times larger than the recommended dietary guidelines. This encourages you to eat more than you would at home, adversely affecting your waistline, blood pressure, and risk of diabetes. Our mission is to provide empowering, evidence-based mental health content you can use to help yourself and your loved ones. The collection includes a fanny pack filled with garlic-flavored mints…and we really don’t know what to think about that.

With Mellow’s system, home cooks can tell Mellow what you want to cook and how you like it prepared. Once the user loads the machine with ingredients, Mellow knows what to do from the moment the food is placed inside the water bath. Sous vide devices have been available to home cooks for some time, but most are offered as “immersion circulators” that largely supplement traditional stovetop cooking. But it’s not just insects that offer an alternative protein source.

For each serving of tuna, dredge all sides in the cumin/salt mix, and then briefly dip all sides in the oil to give the fish a thin coating. On a second plate, pour a few tablespoons of a high-heat-stable oil, such as refined canola, sunflower, or safflower oil. Coat all sides of the tuna in cumin seeds and salt by pressing the tuna down onto a plate that has the spice mixture evenly spread out on it. Use a probe thermometer set to beep at 115°F / 46°C and remove the fish when the thermometer goes off, letting carryover bring the temperature up a few more degrees.

The temperature at which a liquid boils is dependent on the surrounding pressure. When you cook in a regular pot at atmospheric pressure (14.7 pounds per square inch ), water boils at 100°C (212°F). Inside a pressure cooker, the pressure can increase by an additional 15 psi, to almost 30 psi. That means food can cook at a much higher temperature than it ever could at atmospheric pressure—and since cooking reactions speed up at higher temperatures, your food cooks faster. It also doesn’t dry out, since the water stays in liquid form. Spread out on a baking tray and leave to prove overnight at room temperature.

However, I can’t bring myself to actually rate it that because it is obviously well-crafted. For what it’s trying to be, this book is definitely 5-stars. It’s 800 pages of all the tedious details about ingredients and cooking methods that you never wanted to know, and Harold McGee gets props for putting together these comprehensive tome. Flatbreads, by contrast, could be cooked simply in a pan or even on a rock. Cultures all over the world invented various forms of flatbread—from the tortilla in Mexico to the chapati in India to lefse in Norway. Because flatbreads did not require an oven or any elaborate preparation, they were typically made at home as part of peasant cuisine.