Friday March 19 , 2010

Introduction to Condiments and Sauces

Spices and flavorings can be used on their own, even if you add more than one to a particular dish, or in combination with other spices to make spicy sauces and other more complex condiments.

Condiments & Flavorings

Spices and flavorings can be used on their own, even if you add more than one to a particular dish, or in combination with other spices to make spicy sauces and condiments.

All about condiments and flavorings

HOT PEPPER base - mexican chillies or the harissa paste. Tabasco, the red pepper sauce made in Louisiana, is probably a hot sauce known worldwide.

VEGETABLE base - ketchups, barbecue sauces, tomato relish, mushroom ketchup, chutneys.

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Hint of Herbs

The information you need about aromatic herbs, what they are, how to recognize them, preserve them, and how to handle them, including sample recipes. Discover herbs and use them in your everyday cooking. You see how you achieve the best flavor while you use less salt and you can completely ignore other flavor enhancers and artificial flavorings.

Choice Tidbits

Barbecuing is the great outdoor festival. It brings to mind sunny days, delicious odors and fine food eaten in good company. You've chosen a day to relax and impress your friends and family with fine cooking skills. You can enjoy an experience that at least in many parts of the country is only available for a few months. Make the most of it.

Full of Flavor

A spice with a warm and slightly heady piquant flavor; appears in curries, savory rice dishes or coffee in Indian and Middle East cuisines, found in pastries, buns or punch in Western cooking.

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