What are quail eggs and how are they cooked?
Like any other bird egg consumed as food, quail eggs can be boiled, fried, scrambled or poached. They can be served by themselves or used in soups, stews, salads and stir …
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.
Stages in making bread
Bread doesn't happen by magic. From using the correct ingredients in the right proportions to knowing if gluten has properly formed, well... it takes practice.
Baker’s yeast
There’s yeast that infects the skin, there’s yeast for brewing (beer, for example) and there’s yeast that’s used for baking.
A guide to flour for baking bread
There are many kinds of flour and not all of them are made from wheat. Flour is also made from cassava, chickpeas, rice and potato, among others. For making most breads, …
Lotus root buying and cooking guide
Cooked as vegetable in China, Japan and India, lotus root is sold fresh, dried or canned. Mildly flavorerd and crunchy, it is added to soups and stir fries. It can also …
Best way to remove catfish slime
Scrub with salt? Rinse in vinegar? Soak in food-grade calcium hydroxide? They all work but nothing works better than baking soda. Ten minutes is all it takes.
Calamansi (kalamansi)
A citrus hybrid with small sour fruit, calamansi is ubiquitous in Filipino cooking. I used to think the fruit was unique to the Philippines but it isn't.