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Chef Secrets (Page 83)

Celebrate Your Birthday Like Royalty!

2015-04-24
By: Maggie
On: April 24, 2015
In: Chef Secrets, Comfort Food, Cooking 101, Food Tips

A former Chef to Queen Elizabeth II has revealed the ‘family’ Chocolate Cake recipe Her Majesty has requested for her birthday every year since she was 9 years old. It’s not hard to make and it’s very rich… And it may be just the thing to make you feel like royalty next time you celebrate!Read More →

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The Secret of Asian Flavour Profiles…

2015-03-12
By: Maggie
On: March 12, 2015
In: Chef Secrets, Cooking 101, Food Tips

If you thought that Indian (and other Asian) flavours were totally different from western ones, you were right! Now, Indian researchers have conducted an in-depth study of their traditional flavour pairings and discovered that India and the West are, indeed, 180 degrees apart…Read More →

Happy Peanut Butter Lover’s Day! Make Your Own!

2015-03-01
By: Maggie
On: March 1, 2015
In: Chef Secrets, Comfort Food, Food Tips

I’ve just been reminded that this is International Peanut Butter Lover’s Day! Celebrate by making your own and making any of the multitude of goodies – both sweet and savoury – that include peanut butter in their ingredient lists. No, it’s not a hard as you might think!Read More →

Unripe Tomato - Leave it on the vine! - © thefarmstaff.com

Chef Secrets: Is ‘Fresh’ Always Best?

2014-11-07
By: Maggie
On: November 7, 2014
In: Chef Secrets, Comfort Food, Food Tips, Foodie Life Lessons

We’ve touched on this issue before, talking about Pizza Perfectionist Prudery when it comes to the insistence of so-called Pie Purists on using only fresh tomatoes, crushed by hand, in their best Red Sauces. Now, the issue of Frozen vs. Fresh is raising its contentious head once again…Read More →

Organics: Can you taste the difference?

2014-10-27
By: Maggie
On: October 27, 2014
In: Chef Secrets, Food News, Food Tips, Foodie Life Lessons

Here we go again… Another flash mob of guerrilla foodinistas has struck, at an Organic Food Show, and proved what we and other mainstream foodservice industry types have been saying for ages: There’s no discernible difference in taste between ‘regular’ and organic foods…Read More →

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