When you make your own homemade mayonnaise, it is one of those magical moments for a cook that both surprises and empowers. That mayonnaise is an emulsion and that the process of emulsion works will always amaze you. Once you’ve done it yourself you will feel very competent. Homemade mayonnaise became even easier with the […]
Summertime Raw Sauce for Pasta
August 19, 2014 by Leave a Comment
A delightful way to prepare pasta for a hot summer day is to toss it with a raw sauce or what the Italians call a salsa cruda. Summers can be too hot for full-fledged piping hot food so a raw sauce can come into play. It is exactly what it sounds like, a melange of […]
What is Couscous and How Does One Prepare It?
February 19, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Couscous is one of the staple foods of the Maghrib (western North Africa). Couscous is made from two different sizes of the husked and crushed, but un-ground, semolina of hard wheat using water to bind them. Semolina is the hard part of the grain of hard wheat (Triticum turgidum var. durum), that resisted the grinding […]
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