The first known use of gnocchi was in 1891. Gnocchi is an Italian dumpling. With simple ingredients, like potato flour, water, and eggs. This dish originates from the Northern part of Italy. Due to the colder Northern Italian climate, potatoes are easier to grow than wheat grain. Culinary Inventors of the Dumpling The Chinese are
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Do you know the difference between broth and stock? Though they are both a liquid, there are differences. And these difference are in how they are prepared. Broth starts with meat or vegetables and including seasonings like onion, carrots, celery, herbs, salt and pepper. Broth is cooked in less than two hours and is best
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There are many varieties of vinegar’s. Like red wine vinegar, champagne vinegar, rice vinegar, cider vinegar, white wine vinegar, balsamic vinegar, sherry vinegar, and white vinegar. Vinegar’s are used for pickling, de-glazing pans, marinating meats, making sauces and is found in some desserts. White or cider vinegar’s are even used for house cleaning and disinfecting
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You may heard of the Paleo Diet, and are also unaware what the diet consists of. The paleolithic lifestyle also known as the Paleo Diet, is a diet that attempts to recreate or endeavors to imitate the eating patterns of our ancestors lifestyle, who lived 1000’s of years ago. They did not eat food that was processed,
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With little more than your favorite spaghetti sauce (we used a sauce made with cream and vodka – from the Whole Foods Market), cream cheese and a shredded Italian cheese blend, you can have yourself some chicken roll-ups. They are super easy to prepare. Here is what you will need: 2 oz. of cream cheese
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  Poached chicken is very popular in Hong Kong. The chicken is poached in a broth flavored with star anise, caraway seeds, orange zest, lemongrass, ginger and Thai chilies. Traditionally the broth is not served with the poached chicken and spices. You can freeze the chicken stock in airtight containers for up to 3 months.
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Over the last three decades or so, Americans have learned to reduce fat in their diet. Some are still struggling, but many have made good head way to eating a whole food clean diet, for better health. Even though fat has been reduced, we are still not eating enough of the healthy fats, which include
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Paprika is used to garnish many foods we prepare. Like soups, shrimp, deviled eggs, potato and pasta salads. Paprika comes from the pods of Capsicum annuum peppers that are dried and crushed to form the powdery spice. There are two principle paprikas used in cooking. • Sweet Hungarian Paprika • Hot Spanish or Smoked Paprika
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The featured recipe is not authentic Mexican food, but a Tex-Mex style food with Mexican ingredient influence or Mexican inspired. Fajitas got its start in a tortilleria in Houston Texas (USA). As legend has it, Maria Ninfa Rodriguez, better known as “Mama Ninfa Laurenzo” starting serving fajitas in her Houston restaurant called the Rio Grande
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I found this recipe on the side of a tub of garlic Philly cooking cream. But I didn’t use the Philadelphia product, because of the added artificial flavors and chemicals. I make my own garlic cream as well as added the other ingredients the recipe called for. The recipe calls for pine nuts, and pine
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