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- The Most Underrated Canned Tomato
- The Four Essential Cooks I Turn to Again and Again
- Why This Classic Romanian-Jewish Dish Is Nearly Impossible to Find
- Korean Fried Chicken, But Make It Crispy Chickpeas
- 6 Ways to Sniff Out an Online Shopping Scam
- 10 Most Popular Products Our Community Bought in February
- Pączki Deserve More Than a Day
- Yakamein Is the Best Way to Recover From Mardi Gras
- Move Aside, Brisket! 8 Seder-Ready Passover Chicken Recipes
- The Command Strip Step You Simply Cannot Skip
| The Most Underrated Canned Tomato Posted: 02 Mar 2022 09:00 AM PST No matter the season, my pantry is always stocked with canned or jarred tomatoes. What kinds, you may ask? Well, there are whole-peeled tomatoes for slow-cooked braises and stews (and Marcella sauce, of course). Diced tomatoes for chili. Passata for quick sauces. Sun-dried tomatoes for salads and pastas (and pasta salads). Tomato paste for too many dishes to count. But if I'm playing favorites (and why not!), there's one type of canned or jarred tomatoes that I love more than all the others: canned cherry tomatoes. Not heard of them? Well, I'm referring to the small, red, candy-sweet tomatoes that are prolifically fresh at the height of summer, but if they're prepped and canned, they're ready to use any time of year. |
| The Four Essential Cooks I Turn to Again and Again Posted: 02 Mar 2022 08:18 AM PST I have a cookbook collection that numbers well over 1,000 volumes. Seriously. And I use them. Not every single one every day, it's true. But I read all of them—for inspiration, for facts, for specific recipes, for styles, for ingredient information, for techniques, and just for fun. But there are a handful of books and writers that I go back to constantly. These are the ones I call "The Essentials." The Essentials are the friends I can't do without. Whether it's for the philosophy of food, or the basics of making a vinaigrette, these are my daily go-tos. I've been in professional kitchens my whole adult life, but these writers are as helpful and necessary to me as they are to someone just starting to cook at home. Though I believe that technique is essential when preparing food, there are other things that are equally essential. And my "essentials" remind us what those other things are. |
| Why This Classic Romanian-Jewish Dish Is Nearly Impossible to Find Posted: 02 Mar 2022 08:00 AM PST When said aloud, the word sounds almost like music: Mamaliga. An almost-facsimile of polenta, the cornmeal-based dish mamaliga is native to Romania and neighboring Moldova, as well as parts of the Ukraine. Written as mamelige in Yiddish, and mămăligă in Romanian, the dish inspires an almost romantic yearning, particularly among Ashkenazi and Romanian Jews. In his famous song "Rumania, Rumania" originally recorded in 1925, Yiddish theater actor and singer Aaron Lebedeff extols the delights of the eponymous land through its comestibles: "Vos dos harts glust kenstu krign: A mamaligele, a pastramele, a karnatsele, Un a glezele vayn, aha…!" (In English: "What your heart desires you can get; a mamalige, a pastrami, a karnatzl, and a glass of wine, aha…!") From Our Shop Mamaliga is, in its most basic form, quite simple: coarsely-ground yellow cornmeal—the same kind used for polenta—cooked with water and salt over a low heat. It takes about half an hour to cook, stirring constantly, says Roza Jaffe, a home cook and Holocaust survivor from the region of Bessarabia, which today straddles Moldova and the Ukraine. (I personally spent upwards of an hour standing over my Dutch oven in both of my attempts to make it, though I am a notoriously slow cook). |
| Korean Fried Chicken, But Make It Crispy Chickpeas Posted: 02 Mar 2022 07:00 AM PST Every week in Genius Recipes—often with your help!—Food52 Founding Editor and lifelong Genius-hunter Kristen Miglore is unearthing recipes that will change the way you cook. The joys of Korean fried chicken—the sweet-sticky crunch, the heat coursing down your throat, the cooling gulps of beer—are all but effortless to unleash at home, without the frying and even without the chicken. |
| 6 Ways to Sniff Out an Online Shopping Scam Posted: 02 Mar 2022 05:30 AM PST I recently fell victim to a scam while shopping for home decor online. The short version is that I ordered a set of decorative wall panels and waited several months for them to be delivered. Despite the company's repeated assurances that my package was en route, nothing was ever delivered, and when I asked for my money back, they told me they couldn't refund my purchase unless I returned the goods—which would have been tricky to do since I never received them in the first place. In the end, I disputed the transaction with my bank and was thankfully able to get my money back, but it got me thinking about how convincing shady brands can be these days. They often have professional-looking websites and good marketing, and it can be hard to tell what's a scam and what's legitimate—even for someone like me, whose whole job revolves around the internet. After my latest experience with a duplicitous brand, I did some research on how to spot online scams, and I'm passing along the best tips to you, in hopes it saves someone from the frustration I went through. |
| 10 Most Popular Products Our Community Bought in February Posted: 01 Mar 2022 12:00 PM PST I learned long ago that shopping is one of my greatest joys. Not just because I genuinely love discovering new products and brands, but because I love showing them off to anyone who will listen. So is it any surprise that I'm a market editor? Nope, none whatsoever. Possibly an even greater joy? Seeing what our readers shop for each month. In February, our community of homebodies cozied up to tons of bathrobes, supportive pillows, humidifier and diffuser hybrids, bubble tea kits, and more. |
| Pączki Deserve More Than a Day Posted: 01 Mar 2022 10:31 AM PST Mardi Gras is also Pączki Day, but these Polish doughnut-esque delicacies (say: poinch-kee) deserve more than 24 hours in their honor. Around the world, various cultures celebrate the last days before Lent with various dishes or parties designed to use up all the soon-to-be-forbidden ingredients. Traditionally the Eastern European holiday for fried dough was Fat Thursday, or the final Thursday before Ash Wednesday, but over time in the U.S. it merged with all the other pre-Lent celebrations like Pancake Day and Mardi Gras, and now everyone can eat sweets together and/or twice. From Our Shop Pączki, like the other foods for Fat Tuesday, uses copious quantities of milk, butter, eggs, and, of course, oil in which it's fried. It resembles other stuffed, yeasted doughnuts—bomboloni, sufganiyot, and Berliners—but goes heavy on the richness: our recipe uses four egg yolks, for example. They tend to use a little less sugar in the dough than most doughnuts, instead using the filling as the sweetness – usually a fruit or jam piped into the center, like this easy-to-make prune butter. |
| Yakamein Is the Best Way to Recover From Mardi Gras Posted: 01 Mar 2022 08:00 AM PST There are many things Chef Linda Green can make for you—shrimp and crabmeat dressing, crawfish macaroni and cheese, gumbo, bread pudding—but there's only one dish so consistently attributed to her that it earned her her own epithet: Yakamein. It's a salty, umami-rich soup filled with noodles, hard-boiled egg, a choice of meat and dusted with chopped green onions, is a hybrid of Black American and Asian-American cooking. When you finish a cup, the list sips are often filled with the broth's seasonings that settle in the bottom. And it's fair to say that culinary experience, while available in various places across the United States, has been perfected by New Orleans' own Linda Green, the Yakamein Lady. |
| Move Aside, Brisket! 8 Seder-Ready Passover Chicken Recipes Posted: 01 Mar 2022 07:00 AM PST When you want a change of pace from [serving brisket]https://food52.com/recipes/19878-nach-waxman-s-brisket-of-beef) for Passover seder, make roast chicken. These 8 recipes for this crowd-friendly dish are kosher for Passover and will look so good at the center of your table, surrounded by good wine, roasted vegetables, matzo-ball soup, maybe a spring-forward soup, and of course, flourless chocolate cake. And once you're done cooking and serving a whole chicken, use the remaining carcass and bones to make the stock for a matzo ball soup. From Our Shop 1. Roast Chicken With Lemon Curd, Garlic & Chiles"Lemon curd is typically used for sweet recipes—but why not think outside the box and take it someplace savory? This dinner makes the most of lemon curd, adding tart richness to sheet-pan chicken thighs. Fresh rosemary is a natural pairing, and chile offsets it from being overly sweet," writes Food52 Resident Melina Hammer. Swap out the bread for serving with cooked quinoa or matzo. |
| The Command Strip Step You Simply Cannot Skip Posted: 01 Mar 2022 05:30 AM PST Command Strips are quite possibly one of the greatest inventions of the 21st century. I'm not being hyperbolic here, either. They started off revolutionizing the art-hanging process, and have since expanded into other products like shelving and storage solutions, from picture ledges, jewelry organizers and key holders. I have several of them in my home: for mounting wall art, hanging the dog's leash on a hook by the door, and organizing hats and bags in the closet. The key to using them successfully, though, is following the directions exactly. |
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