If you are like me, I had never heard of Zwieback toast until I became a parent. I know that some bakers will be familiar with Zwieback toast as well, as it can be used on top of some baked goods. But many people may have never heard of Zwieback toast, but that doesn’t mean that they have never come …
I remember eating at a sports bar with my dad and brothers when I noticed a man start to sprinkle salt in his beer. I was confused and didn’t think to ask why. But, if you have had a similar experience and never found the answer, there are many different theories for why some people …
Why is Delivered Pizza Often Oily? Greasy and oily pizza is very unappealing. If you think about it for a moment, however, all of the ingredients of a pizza contain oil. Unless you order a veggie pizza, even then, you may be plagued with a wet pizza due to the liquid in the vegetables. There is …
I love pasta, but I recently became gluten intolerant. So, for health reasons, I had to switch over to rice pasta. My greatest headache was how to unstick rice noodles. It seemed that I had a real and terrible talent for making sticky rice noodles that clumped badly. So I set out to learn from …
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Do fresh ramen noodles come in a curly form, or only instant? Ramen is a noodle soup that originated in Japan. It consists of a rich bone broth and a protein, usually, like meat, fish, or tofu, and is topped with things like fresh herbs, citrus, and pepper sauce- but the real star of the …
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The most significant difference is preparing one from pork belly and the other from pork loin. This is because bacon made from pork loin is much leaner than pork belly. Yet, once you cure them, the flavor is almost indistinguishable when served green. English and American bacon curing methods are similar. So, the curing process …
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Several varieties of squash and pumpkin blooms can be an ingredient in “flor de Calabaza.” The term “Calabaza” loosely translates to squash. So, the literal translation of “flor de Calabaza” is the “flower of the pumpkin or squash.” That means it can be the flower of any squash or pumpkin. However, some squash blooms work better in …
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Most people have experienced buying some ground beef and putting it in the fridge, only to forget about it for about a week. When you finally discover it, it has turned brown. And, when this happened to me, I wondered if that beef was still usable. If you have ever had a similar experience, then …
Many foods have more than one name. Often the food items are identical, and at other times, they only have similarities. What is the difference Between Kansas City Strip and New York Strip? However, that is not so when considering the likeness of a Kansas City strip to a New York strip. They both come …
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There are hundreds of glass spoons for sale on various websites such as Amazon. Curiously, all such spoons are serving spoons for dispensing food items or for stirring drinks, but glass spoons–the eating-with kind–are quite rare, but why is that? Why aren’t glass spoons used for eating? Glass spoons aren’t used for eating because such cutlery …
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