Cooking Tips

When cooked foods cool to room temperature, microbes begin to proliferate. The longer the wait, the greater the risk. To be on the safe side, eat cooked foods just as they come off the heat.

While many foods, such as fruits and vegetables, are best in their natural state, others simply are not safe unless they have been processed. For example, always buy pasteurized as opposed to raw milk and, if you have the choice, select fresh or frozen poultry treated with ionizing radiation. Keep in mind that food processing was invented to improve safety as well as to prolong shelf-life.

Quail eggs are a kind of eggs as food, eaten and considered as delicacy in many parts of the world, including Asia, Europe and North America. They taste very much like chicken eggs. They have a different ratio of yolk to albumin (egg white), which means they have less white than chicken eggs and as a result taste just a little bit creamier and richer.

Turbinado sugar retains more of the natural molasses present in sugar cane and is less processed than white sugar in which all the molasses and colour is removed. Turbinado sugar is closed to dehydrated sugar cane juice than white sugar.

Rich in trace minerals and electrolytes, Himalayan salt contains sodium, magnesium, potassium, calcium and potassium, that play many important roles in the body, from regulating your heartbeat to allowing your muscles to contract so you can move.

Though it looks more like cauliflower in texture and form, romanesco's taste is more like broccoli, mild and nutty with sweeter notes that lend well to savory pairings.