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Umami Days

Meaty with a dash of veggies

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      • Breakfast
      • Lunch / dinner
      • Snacks
    • By main ingredient
      • Poultry
      • Meat
      • Seafood
      • Eggs
      • Mushrooms
      • Tofu
      • Vegetables
    • By carb
      • Rice
      • Noodles
      • Bread
  • Kitchen
    • Kitchen how-tos
    • Cooking ingredients
    • Kitchen tools
  • Food Tales
    • Edible Garden
    • Dining
  • Newsletter

Cooking ingredients

To cook any dish properly, a good introduction to the ingredients that go into it is a must. For example, when a recipe lists scallions as an ingredient, does it refer to onion leaves, or are scallions and onion leaves different from one another? What is the proper way to rehydrate dried mushrooms?  What is fish sauce and why is salt not a worthy substitute? What is shrimp paste and why is it such an important ingredient in Asian cooking? All these and more in this section.

Salted duck eggs

Salted duck eggs

Shallots

Scallion, spring onion, leek and shallot: how to differentiate

Difference between fish fillet and fish steak, illustrated

What’s the difference between fish steak and fish fillet?

Ginger scallion mussel soup

Do mussels and clams need to be soaked before cooking?

Baby corn

How to cook baby (young) corn

Jute leaves (saluyot)

Jute leaves (saluyot): Cleopatra’s anti-aging secret?

Edamame (fresh soy beans in pods)

How to cook edamame (fresh soy beans in pods)

Stringed snap peas

Are snow peas the same as snap peas?

wood ears / black fungus

How to prepare wood ears and black fungus

Century eggs the vegetables and sauce

Are century eggs preserved for 100 years?

Napa cabbage and bok choy

How to cook Chinese cabbage

Bitter gourd / melon (ampalaya)

How to minimize the bitterness of bitter gourd / melon

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