A Ladle for Every Occasion: 3 Types You Should Have in the Kitchen
Just So You Know, This Post Contains Affiliate Links. This Means That If You Buy Using A Link On This Page, The Culinary Exchange Makes Money From The Purchase. Every so often, we like to talk about not only the ingredients that you should have in your kitchen, but...
Dinner Ideas: Pasta with Chicken, Mushrooms and Asparagus
Pasta with Chicken, Mushrooms and Asparagus When it comes to pasta, I like it simple and sinful. This means the ingredients are straight forward and a nice cream sauce is coating the noodles. Yes, sometimes I like my pasta very simple - with just tomato sauce, but a...
Confidence In The Kitchen – How To Blanch Vegetables
How To Blanch Vegetables It is rare that anyone would recommend boiling vegetables, root vegetables being the exception, but that is exactly what blanching is. It makes sense to ask - isn't poaching or simmering better for vegetables? After all, boiling is pretty...
Food Industry News: Is Urban Farming Good for the Environment?
A couple of years ago, urban farming burst into the mainstream food industry news with rooftop farms popping up in major cities like New York City and Chicago. Instead of requiring large expanses of land to cultivate, they used creative means to create farmland...
Pantry Raid: How to Cook White Rice
White rice may well be one of the most simple dishes ever to prepare. It also is one of the easiest to screw up. Grains, in their many forms, can be tricky to cook. We've talked before about how to properly cook brown rice to avoid overcooking it (and making it gummy)...
Can Consumers Get Good Deals at a Commercial Kitchen Supply Store?
There's lots of benefits to shopping at a kitchen supply store that focuses on selling mainly to chefs and restaurants. For one, you're almost promised a selection of high-quality kitchen tools and gadgets. Most trained chefs have pretty high standards when it comes...
Dinner Ideas: Herbed Chicken Schnitzel
Herbed Chicken Schnitzel I love a good schnitzel! Tender inside, crunchy outside! I dream about schnitzels so big that it almost hangs over the plate! I had one that big once in Switzerland! Mmmm....I remember it fondly. I am not picky about my schnitzel meat either -...
St. Patricks Day Cocktail – The Leprechaun’s Blarney
St. Patricks Day Cocktail - The Leprechaun's...
Confidence In The Kitchen – Drying Herbs, Freezing Herbs and More!
Drying Herbs and Freezing Herbs The abundance of an herb garden can be overwhelming at times. There is only so much pesto one can make and being wasteful is so not cool. The best thing to be done is to preserve those herbs for later use. Drying herbs is very easy and,...
Food Innovation: What Is Sous Vide and Why is it a Better Way to Cook?
Sous vide cooking has experienced a sort of renaissance as of late with the invention of personalized sous vide machines that make the decades old process of precision cooking much more doable for the common cook. Sous vide cooking wasn't used in a restaurant setting...