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MISS Worcester Rosabella Styles popped into the Guildhall for a cup of coffee to help brew up some interest in a charity campaign.
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Coffee preference will forecast election
TV Online Coffee preference will forecast election By Mark Fisher Why wait until Election Day? Boston Stoker, the Vandalia-based coffee chain with nine outlets in the Dayton area, has launched a presidential ...
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Betty Vasquez is not your typical medical assistant. She works for a dermatologist in Sun City West, Ariz., and has a unique perspective when dealing with the skin cancer cases she sees on a daily basis.
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Broccoli Stems Take Center Stage
While it’s usually the florets of broccoli that get all the attention, a number of Chowhounds are mad about broccoli stems, which, notes scubaadoo97, are the sweetest part. The florets and stems are almost two different vegetables, says tmso. “I think I like the stalks better. When serving them, I’ve had guests ask what that wonderful vegetable was.”
scuzzo thinks broccoli stems are “gold,” and peels and eats them raw. ipsedixit juliennes raw stems and adds them to salads for a nice crunch, but notes that “99 percent of the people think that you’re serving some sort of ‘artisan’ cucumber.” And oryza and gwendolynmarie have both pickled broccoli stems.
tmso’s favorite way to serve broccoli stems is poached and tossed with brown butter. toodie jane slices peeled stems in thick chunks and sautés them quickly with celery, then serves them sprinkled with toasted sesame seeds. It’s a good flavor combination, she says.
Sam Fujisaka serves cold steamed broccoli stems with a miso-lemon drizzle or dip. almccasland cuts the stems into chunks and grills them. gwendolynmarie recommends tossing broccoli stems with garlic, red chile flakes, cumin, and a bit of toasted sesame oil and then roasting them; she also says that if they’re steamed quite well and trimmed, their inner core is so soft and silky that it can be mashed to be eaten alone or made into a dip.
Board Link: Broccolli stems
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Celebrating New Potatoes
Chowhounds have lots of ideas about how to cook new potatoes. They’re usually freshly dug, small, and tender. alkapal asserts that “their creamy sweetness is best in the simplest preparations.” She prefers her new potatoes steamed and dressed with sweet butter and salt and pepper, or rubbed with good olive oil and sea salt and roasted. “It is the savory simplicity that is the ‘wow!’ factor,” she says.
Passadumkeg serves them steamed with lots of butter and a little fresh dill, while berkleybabe halves them, tosses them with olive oil, and roasts them with garlic and fresh rosemary.
jackie de also pairs new potatoes with rosemary: Put them in a skillet with butter and sprigs of fresh rosemary and add chicken broth to half the depth of the potatoes. Cover and cook on medium heat until the potatoes are almost tender and the liquid is almost gone. Remove the lid, raise the heat, and cook until the potatoes are crispy. jackie de then serves them with a squeeze of lemon juice and a drizzle of olive oil.
Jimmy Buffet grills his new potatoes, basting them with olive oil and sprinkling them with coarse sea salt just as they finish cooking. And, finally, bw2082 sautés them in duck fat with shallots.
Board Link: Favorite way to cook red new potatoes?
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Other Uses for a Food Dehydrator
You can do lots more with a food dehydrator than just dry fruit and make homemade jerky, according to amyzan. She says dehydrators produce great coconut macaroons, because the outsides of the cookies get dry and crispy while the interiors stay moist. “Somehow the contrast is greater than with those baked in an oven,” she says. “They’re different in a dehydrator, but deliciously so.”
amyzan also uses a dehydrator to maintain a steady temperature for proofing bread dough and culturing yogurt, and says it does a nice job of recrisping anything that’s gone stale.
Board Link: Food Dehydrator Ideas
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Mamey Tropical Fruit
The mamey is a large, sweet tropical fruit. Its flesh is a gorgeous, bright orange, and has “a texture not unlike cooked sweet potato,” says Pat Hammond. moh enjoys the hint of spice that’s detectable in the flesh, particularly cinnamon.
Mameys are cloyingly sweet, says Pat Hammond, and a squeeze of lime is welcome. The fruit isn’t normally eaten on its own in Mexico, says Eat_Nopal. It’s more commonly used in a licuado (juice smoothie) or helado (ice cream). “I’ve had it as a shake in a Cuban restaurant and as an ice cream flavor in a Mexican shop,” says Jase. “Fantastic flavor. Works really well in the rich, creamy milk base.” Pat Hammond likes it in a smoothie with banana, yogurt, and orange juice.
Mamey even shows up in mole, says Eat_Nopal: It’s added roasted, boiled, or raw to Manchamanteles mole (along with pork, plantains, and other fruits). And the seeds are prepared, ground, and used as a base for moles in the Tlaxcala and Puebla regions.
Board Link: The Mamey fruit
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Flavorful Unpitted Apricots
greygarious has been buying whole dried apricots from ApricotKing Orchards, and loves the deep apricot-almond flavor the pits lend the fruit. In fact, apricot kernels are often used for their almond flavor: greygarious has seen them used in amaretti cookies, while amaretto liqueur can be made from either almonds or apricot kernels.
Whole, dried apricots known as “slip-pit” apricots have an admirable property: The pits and fruit do not cling to each other during the drying process, so the kernels slip right out, making the apricots both delicious and easy to eat. “I am utterly sold on these babies,” says greygarious.
Board Link: Slip-Pit Dried Apricots…..yowza!
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