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Wednesday, May 30, 2001
Outside the box
PERFECTING POULTRY
If possible, use the convection setting on your oven when roasting poultry, since the bird will brown more evenly and cook 10 to 15 percent faster than in a conventional oven.
QUICK JUICING
To juice citrus fruit without a juicer, stick halved citrus with a fork and rotate it through the fruits moistmembrane.
SUPERFINE SUGAR
To make superfine sugar, process granulated sugar in a food processor fitted with a metal blade for a few minutes. Use fine sugar when making lemonade, meringues or whipped cream.
WELL-DRESSED SALAD
When dressing a salad simply with oil and vinegar straight from the bottles, always lightly coat the greens first with the oil before adding the vinegar. The oil helps the vinegar cling evenly to the leaves. If the lettuce is tossed directly with the vinegar the delicate greens can wilt.
QUICK SOAKING BEANS
If you have forgotten to soak dried beans over night before cooking, use the quick soak method. Put the beans in a pot and cover with water, boil them for 5 minutes, and then put the pot of beans aside for 1 hour. Drain, add fresh water, and then cook the beans.
SPICE RACK
When stocking the spice rack buy whole spices since they keep their flavor longer than ground. Spices can be easily ground in a coffee grinder or by using an old-fashioned mortar and pestle.
CLEAN GRINDER
Processing a piece of bread in the coffee grinder cleans out any residual spices left in the mill.
TOMATO TOUCHES
Using oven-or sun-dried tomatoes, tomato paste, roasted or charred tomatoes will enhance the flavor of a tomato sauce, since the tomato flavor is more concentrated.
Web site of the day
www.culinarycafe.com/Barbeque.html
Culinary Cafe boasts a great barbecue link, with hundreds of recipes to satisfy every event from a backyard dinner-for-two to a blockparty blowout. Recipes run toward the exotic, such as grilled chicken with citrus salsa. For those of you who like to grill lean and mean, delve into the different sauce categories: bastes, sops and mops, dry rubs, marinades and wet rubs. The site also covers grill and wood selection.
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