Roasted Red Pepper Cream Sauce
A great way to use up your sweet red peppers: a roasted red pepper cream sauce with garlic and shallots. This simple cream sauce is great served with poultry and fish.
Recipes
How to Eat a Dragon Fruit or Pitahaya
The exotic dragon fruit (pitahaya) also goes by the name ‘moonflower’, which gets its name from it nocturnal blooming nature. There are three different varieties of the sweet dragon fruit, each sporting a different colored fruit, and a sour dragon fruit. Each is refreshing to eat fresh …
Tips for Grilling Vegetables and a Recipe for Grilled Vegetable Vinaigrette
Grilled vegetables are best when kept simple – allowing their true flavors to burst through. They are especially nice when tossed with a light dressing just before serving, like the basic vinaigrette below. Grilled Vegetables Tips On the grill – keep it simple. Quick cooking over high heat. Just salt and pepper, and …
How to Make Ravioli: Semolina or Flour Pasta Recipes
Ravioli is simply a filling surrounded by two layers of pasta dough. The shapes range from round, square, half-moon, etc. Whatever shape you can think of consisting of two pieces of pasta with a filling, that’s a ravioli. Types of Pasta Doughs: Semolina or Flour Two …
Spinach, Parmesan, and Ricotta Ravioli
This ravioli filling uses your fresh spinach with ricotta and Parmesan cheeses.
Basil Three Cheese Ravioli
This recipe uses fresh basil and parsley with ricotta, Parmesan, and cottage cheeses.
Black Garlic: Black Gold in a Garlic Wrapper
If you’ve never tasted black garlic, then this description from Black Garlic, Ltd., a manufacturer of this ‘fermented’ favorite item, will get you sitting up: Black garlic is sweet meets savory, a perfect mix of molasses-like richness and tangy garlic undertones. It has a tender, …
Salsa de Chile Rojo Recipe Using Dried Ancho and Pequin Chiles
Use your dried Ancho and Pequin chiles for this hot sauce.
Japones or Hontaka Hot Sauce (Using Homemade Chile Paste)
This recipe uses the Japones or Hontaka Chile Paste, and produces a hot sauce that is great served with grilled vegetables and meats. For best flavor, let it rest for up to an hour before serving to truly let the flavors marry.
Japones or Hontaka Red Chile Paste
If you are growing some of these chiles and are wondering if there is anything to do with them besides adding these spicy peppers to Szechuan chicken or to chutneys, give this recipe a try. Pick some from your garden and completely dry them out before …