Posts by critical647

No, pinto beans and white rice.  It a very simple dish, but when it is made correctly, my god is it so...

Does anyone have a good recipe for rice and beans?  Specifically, I'm looking to make them like how they do in Brazil or Peru.  I know a lot of recipes call for a ton of fat, but does anyone have one that is healthier?...

Follow this video series on youtube, it has worked pretty well for me before:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcJtAwwZUqc&feature=related     On a side note, even with a pizza stone, I've always found it very difficult...

THE king of all fruits in my own opinion.  I love mangosteens and eat them by the kilo whenever I go to Thailand.  Americans really don't know how much they are deprived of good tasting produce. 

Experimenting is the only way.  Many times what works in the small scale in the lab does NOT translate well on the industrial scale.  

You have to be careful at Trader Joe's.  Not everything is organic even though the store seems to try to give out an aura of being a store like Whole Foods.  They carry two types of milk, the Trader Joe's regular brand isn't...

If anyone likes to cook or eat Asian cuisines, I'm sure you've come across some sort of rice noodle dish or rice noodle soup.  It has come to my attention from the my all of my Chinese coworkers that many rice noodle makers use...

So which type of flour is used in most 00 products?  Semolina? Most 00 flour I've seen before is white colored which means it has to be a different type of flour than the traditional yellow colored semolina flour. 

The US is not a member of the IOOC (international olive oil council) and is the only major olive oil producing and consuming nation not in it. The IOOC grades olive oil as -Extra-virgin olive oil comes from the first pressing of...

Absolutely terrible.  First I had a groundhog problem, it kept eating everything.  Next, my heirloom tomatoes have been impossible to grow; they have been plagued with some sort of disease and have stunted growth.  They...