Gochujang is incorporated in sauces used inKorean dishes. It’s made using fermented soybean paste, soy sauce, gochugaru (chilli powder) and glutinous rice. This fermented red chilli paste has everything you would want from a sauce — umami, sweet, savoury and spicy. Harissa This North Afric...
Honey- creamy, sweet, a little spicy. Sugar- sweet. Maple syrup- sweet, wet. Scallions- spicy, chewy. Garlic- spicy, fresh is spicier. Pepper- spicy, slightly bitter. Pink peppercorns are slightly sweet. Freshly ground is spicier. Cilantro- somewhat bitter. Parsley- somewhat bitter. Other ...
If you’ve seen fancy gyoza with a skirt all over your instagram, this is how you make it. Skirts are a lacy, crispy pancake-like layer that connects all the dumplings together when you’re cooking. A slurry of water and flour is poured into the pan as the dumplings cook up and cris...
but in hybridization, which is borne out of circumstance and necessity. These are the meals we made from what we could cobble together. These are Ragu atop white rice (“Prego if you’re fancy!” a friend of mine added, when I asked her about her childhood foods). ...