Confidence In The Kitchen: How To Section Citrus Fruit
How To Section Citrus Fruit The addition of citrus to any dish will add a nice bit of freshness and great taste. Of course, how can one add citrus to a dish with all the peel and pith? Just peeling it typically leaves a lot of pith and tough membrane. Pith is the...
Rants and Raves: Are Sales of Processed Foods Declining?
Once a staple of kitchen cupboards in the 1950s, processed foods have seen much better days. In fact, their fall from popularity has been pretty swift and is due - in large part - to a massive shift in what consumers want to eat. Healthy, fresh food (or at least food...
Pantry Raid: How to Cook Eggplant
Melongene, guinea squash, garden egg - whatever you call it, we're all talking about the same thing: the delicious dark purple eggplant. Surprising as it may be, the eggplant is actually a fruit and is grown mainly in South Asia and East Asia. It's related to...
There Goes the Neighborhood: Olive Garden Rolls Out a Food Truck
Just a few months ago, we wrote about some of the most inventive food trucks around the world, and the chefs that manned them. Unfortunately, it looks like the food truck trend may have just officially jumped the shark as Olive Garden recently rolled out their...
Dinner Ideas: Chicken Breast Recipes And A Simple Pan Sauce
Chicken Breast Recipes Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin once said "A great meal without a sauce is like a beautiful woman without clothes. It can provoke and satisfy the appetite, but it lacks the coating of civilization that would arouse our fullest interest.” Given our...
Confidence In The Kitchen: How To Cook Chicken Breast
How To Cook Chicken Breast There is much you can do with chicken breast - from a roulade to chicken schnitzel. When writing a blog, you have no choice but to think back upon what you have already written. In my first chicken breast post I noted a quote from Jean...
Reinventing Hot Dog Recipes: 5 Creative Takes on an Old Tradition
If you're like most people, when you think about traditional American cuisine, you think about hamburgers and hot dogs. In fact, you can't get much more American than the hot dog. It's a staple of summertime outdoor grilling, is sold in almost every sports concession...
Pantry Raid: How to Cook Collard Greens
Mostly known as a staple of Southern cuisine, collard greens have actually been a part of the global diet of many people for millenia. That wasn't a typo - collard greens have actually been around since prehistoric times and have been cooked and eaten through the...
Food Apps That Make Eating More Fun
At The Culinary Exchange, we're firmly in the camp that eating should be fun - food should be delicious and interesting and eating should be a social affair. Otherwise, where's the fun? But it doesn't stop there. With the range of food-related technology and apps, the...
Dinner Ideas: Delicious Thai Beef Salad Recipe
Thai Beef Salad Recipe Don't you hate it when the restaurant you often frequent takes what you usually order off the menu? The restaurant may not be your favorite, but it is in the rotation for trusted dishes. Of course, after the removal, the establishment takes a...
