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The Basics: Béchamel Sauce
Calling all home cooks: if you haven't been acquainted yet with béchamel sauce, it's time you learned a thing or two about it. Chances are you've eaten this white sauce more than a few times in your life, whether layered in moussaka, drizzled on a croque monsieur, or as a component in other classic courses. Béchamel is over 300 years old, and is such a key element of traditional French cuisine that it actually serves as the base for many other sauces (see variations after the jump).
Definition: Masa
Masa & Masa Harina
Masa — literally "dough" in Spanish — is a cornmeal dough traditionally used in Latin cuisine. Unlike cornmeal, it's made of sun- or fire-dried corn kernels that have been cooked in a solution of lime or ash and water and then ground.
When dried again, the substance becomes masa harina, or "dough flour."
Whole Grain Flour Breakdown
Baking is always happening at my house, whether it be cookies, muffins, or bread. Not only do I love concocting delicious treats with my girls because it's a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon, but I love that I can make scrumptious foods and know they're made with actual ingredients.
I also think it's fun to try out recipes using different flour.
Definition: Cake Flour
Cake Flour
Sometimes known as pastry flour, this high-starch, soft wheat flour has a fine texture. It makes baked goods like cakes more tender than regular flour because it has the least amount of gluten. Bleached cake flour has a bright white color.
Gold Medal Flour May Cost More Than Gold
As someone who loves to bake, I was pretty bummed to hear that the price of flour is going up. We've been hearing about how grocery prices are going up due to increased prices of dairy and wheat, but this is the first time I've seen solid numbers. According to CNN Money, the price of a 50-pound bag of flour went from $16 to $37, a 131 percent increase.
What Would You Make?
Ok here's the deal: You are at home and hungry for food. You have to cook up something scrumptious for you and your boyfriend/ girlfriend/ spouse/ child/ friend, but the ingredients you have on hand are limited.
You have cheddar cheese, fresh thyme, and all-purpose flour.
Yummy Links: From Pie Bags to Bad Restaurants
- Maybe if I had one of these hand pie crust bags I would make more pies. - Apartment Therapy: The Kitchen
- Tao Las Vegas is the highest grossing restaurant in the US. Want to know what the other 9 are?
Weekend Well-Being: Make Your Own Pizza
Making your own pizza is one of the most satisfying things a person can do. A lot of time, effort, and love goes into a homemade pizza, and it tastes like nothing else.
Now I don't mean buying a ready-made crust like Boboli - I mean making the pizza dough.
Definition: Slurry
Slurry A liquid mixture usually involving water and flour that is stirred into hot soups, stews, or sauces as a thickener. In order for the flour to lose its raw taste, the soup, stew, or sauce should be cooked for several minutes longer.
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White Flour: Tales From the Darkside
White flour has a bad rep.
The life of white flour (basic version):
White flour comes from wheat, but wheat is not white. Think of a wheat field ("For amber waves of grain..."); yeah, so not white.
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