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Umami Days

Congee days and ramen nights

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  • Cooking tips
    • Kitchen how-tos
    • Cooking ingredients
    • Kitchen tools
  • Food stories
  • Umami Art Club
  • About
    • The author
    • The blogs
  • Recipes
    • Appetizers
    • Salads
    • Soups
    • Main courses
    • Side dishes
    • Sweets
    • Snacks
    • Beverages
  • Cooking tips
    • Kitchen how-tos
    • Cooking ingredients
    • Kitchen tools
  • Food stories
  • Umami Art Club

Kitchen

Divided into three sub-categories — ingredients, how-tos and tools — this section includes tips on choosing a kitchen countertop (in case you're remodeling) and kitchen organizing.

A log of herb and spice butter, sliced

How to make herb and spice butter

Cheese comes in oh, so many flavors, especially spreadable cream cheese. Why not butter?

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Skimming off scum on the surface of cooking liquid

Do you really need to skim off scum on the surface of bone broth?

What is scum? If you don't remove it, will it ruin your food? Or, worse, will it make you sick?

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Split stalk of leek to remove traces of soil

Leeks: how to clean,cut and use in cooking

Leeks look like big scallions and they taste like onions. They are all related although each has distinct characteristics that sets it apart from the others.

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Homemade herb infused olive oil

How to make herb-infused olive oil

You've seen them in the grocery and they cost plenty. But did you know that it’s easy and inexpensive to make herb-infused olive oil at home? Here's how.

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Truffle and truffle oil

Truffle oil: is It Really extracted from mushrooms?

It's not a regular item in most home kitchens. But if you've enjoyed truffle oil, you might have wondered how it's made. Here's the lowdown.

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sea salt

What’s the difference between sea salt and rock salt?

When researches say that microplastics have been found in commercial salt originating from different parts of the world, which are they referring to — sea salt or rock …

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Honey and lemon halves

Honey: kinds, colors, grades and classifications

It’s sweet, it’s syrupy and we buy them in jars or bottles. Honey is made by honeybees from the nectar of flowers or from honeydew (no, not the fruit but the secretion of …

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