Pantry Raid: How to Make Overnight Oats
Overnight oats - it sounds like you're planning to hand roll kernels to make your own oats, but that's not actually what overnight oats are. Nope, overnight oats are actually a lot easier to make and are actually a really fun way to shake up breakfast or weekend...
What’s a Jujube and Why is it Worth Cooking With?
What is a jujube? If you find yourself scratching your head and vaguely remembering your last trip to the movie theatre, you're probably like the rest of us. Jujube candies are fruit flavored gummy things that come in a box and are almost always found at the cinema....
Pantry Raid: How to Cook Celeriac
If you're like many people, you may have never heard of the root vegetable celeriac. Pronounced "sell-air-ee-ack", this tasty root vegetable is sometimes compared to turnips or butternut squash. Although, it's taste is a little more comparable to something like...
8 Great School Lunch Ideas
It's officially back to school time for the kids, and that means waking up early and packing those all too familiar school lunches. If anything can become boring and monotonous, it's the dreaded school lunch consisting of the same sandwich meat, a slice or two of...
Banoffee Pie Is Easy To Make
Banoffee Pie - The World's Sweetest Dessert I have never met a banoffee pie that I didn't think was too sweet. How many times have I indulged in this dessert only to have my eyes roll back to the back of my head and far enough to see my pancreas twitch, due to the...
Pantry Raid: How to Make Donuts
Mmm... nothing says weekend breakfast like homemade fried pastry. Forget about counting calories for a minute and let yourself think about the warm melt-in-your-mouth goodness that comes from just made donuts. And now think about how great it would be if you could...
Cheese Platter Ideas to Perfectly Complement Your Dinner Party
As much as it pains us to say, summer is nearly officially over, which means it's time to go into party planning mode. Fall is a great time to enjoy the changing seasons and start cozying up to a warm fire with books and blankets in tow, but it's also the busiest...
Pantry Raid: How to Make Chocolate Mousse
Sometimes, at the Culinary Exchange, we get a little hankering for something sweet. And when we do, we go through our mental rolodex of recipes and find something that fits the bill. Tonight, that something sweet is chocolate mousse. For some reason, chocolate mousse...
What’s the Difference Between Caramel and Dulce de Leche
If you were given a choice between a delicious dulce de leche and a sweet caramel sauce, what would you do? Well, obviously, you'd eat them both - but would you know which is which? If you're not intimately familiar with how both dulce de leche and caramel are made,...
Pantry Raid: How to Make a Cheese Blintz
A cheese blintz is really just a fancy word for a crepe stuffed with ricotta or another type of sweet cheese and lightly fried or baked. Although don't take it's basic explanation as an indicator that this simple dish is bland. It's quite the opposite and has been a...
