How To & DIY
Dyeing Easter Eggs Naturally
If you're decorating eggs in celebration this Easter, engage nature in the process this year and avoid synthetic dyes. Ingredients like herbs and spices offer an endless variety of hues for dyeing eggs -- from the soft purple shades of hibiscus to the rich gold tones of turmeric.
Warm Spices
You know a warm spice when you meet one, whether you smell it wafting through the kitchen or taste it in a stew. That deep aroma and strong taste makes any dish richer.
Practical Peppermint
A hardy perennial—watch out or it’ll take over the garden! — peppermint is a cross between spearmint and watermint. Its botanical name is Mentha x piperita, after a Greek nymph who was transformed into a plant, but you’ve most likely heard it called simply “mint.
Why Shop in Bulk?
Everything You Want to Know About Shopping in the Bulk Aisle Want to save money at the grocery store? It’s not about what you buy — but how you buy it. {"preview_thumbnail":"/sites/default/files/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview/public/video_thumbnails/Rjn5Uxou-aY.
6 Recipes That Shake Up Your Holiday Traditions for the Better
Savor the flavors of the holiday season with crowd-pleasing recipes that put a fresh and healthy spin on the classics. What makes a truly great holiday recipe? For one, it’s got to be a crowd pleaser.
Baking Flavors & Extracts 101
In some recipes, using a flavor extract or flavor is easier and yields a tastier, more uniform result than adding the actual ingredient itself. For example, almond flavor might be preferable to using chopped almonds in some breads, cakes or cookies.
Introduction to Fermentation
Fermentation transforms and preserves food through the action of microbes. People started fermenting food thousands of years ago, motivated by a need to have food to eat beyond the growing season.
Cooking with Ginger
Talk about personality! Not a spice to slip in unobtrusively, ginger always makes a grand appearance in dishes. Warm yet refreshing, versatile yet distinctive, ginger’s enigmatic character often enlivens the mix — in a gamut of sweet and savory recipes and in ethnic cuisines the world over.
How to Make Your Own Amazingly Delicious Chili Oil
Pouring hot oil over a mix of chili flakes, fresh aromatic herbs, spices and flavor-filled add-ins is an easy, yet gourmet way to make the most intense and culinarily addictive condiment for rice, noodles, tacos, dumplings, wraps, main course proteins, veggie sides, salad dressings, dips and spreads…to name just a few, whew! The method works so well because it flash-extracts all the oil-soluble flavors and aromas of the ingredients without burning them off. The result is a silky oil with amazingly delicious flavor, with the added benefit of crispy textured bits throughout.
