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Posts tagged “ginger”

Recipe: Hearty & Healthy Apple Muffins

Could whole wheat apple muffins made without eggs, dairy, sugar, or leavening agents possibly be any good? Well, apparently these ones were memorable enough that, many years after tasting them at the ...

Recipe: Sweet Potatoes with Star Anise, Ginger, and Lime

As Sara Kate just reminded us, one doesn't really need a recipe to roast vegetables. A simple drizzle of olive oil and salt are quite sufficient … but sometimes a few inspired additions turn in...

Creamy Decadence: Eight Ice Creams Perfect for Fall

We just acquired a new ice cream maker and there's no way we're waiting until next summer to put it to use! Besides, there are plenty of delicious seasonal ingredients that are just begging to be chur...

Five Ways to Eat: Fresh Ginger

Fresh ginger! It's one of our very favorite things. Here are five ways we eat a lot of ginger. What about you — how do you like to eat ginger?...

Cool Weather Recipe: Gingersnaps

A handful of gingersnaps, a cup of tea, and a cool fall afternoon - what could be better? These cookies are wonderfully snappy a first bite, but then melt into gingery goodness on your tongue. We neve...

OXO's Good Grips Ginger Peeler
Product Reviews

We go through a lot of fresh ginger in the fall and winter. A lot. Between hot ginger and lemon drinks and all the fresh curry pastes and spice rubs we turn to in the colder months, we must go through...

Farm Fresh Salads and Beet Carpaccio au Bleu
From Nationwide Newspaper Food Sections 8.19.09

We're craving colorful late-summer salads right now – like baby beets and turnips with blue cheese, or a panzanella with sweet, juicy watermelon. More on those recipes below, plus ginger fried chic...

Recipe Recommendation: West African Ginger Drink

With faraway travel in mind this month, we have been watching online videos of the Australian television program "Food Safari," which takes viewers into multicultural kitchens across the country. We r...

What is Your Most Dreaded Cooking Task?

I'll go first. I hate washing lettuce (I use this method, but drying it is always a pain) and mincing ginger. I love ginger wholeheartedly, so that one I simply muddle through. But I definitely eat fe...

Recipe: Tofu Steak with Miso and Ginger

"Tofu steak" is one of those Japanese restaurant menu items I'm overly familiar with. As a vegetarian, the sizzling skillet of tofu is often one of the few dishes I can order (as long as it isn't topp...

Ginger! Gingeriffic Recipes, Tips, and Tools

Last week we showed you a Ginger Applesauce Cake from a great book on cooking with kids. Many of you felt, though, that there was too little ginger in the cake to justify its title. It's for kids, rem...

Try This at Home: Influenza Sorbet from Jeni's

You may think that winter is a down time for ice cream. Not so. Jeni's Ice Creams here in Columbus is busily churning out seasonal flavors like Smoked Dark Chocolate with Marshmallows (tastes like cho...

Recipe: Sujeonggwa (Korean Persimmon Punch)

Persimmon season has mostly waned, but if you thought to dry some of the fruits to keep in your pantry, here's a most delicious way to use them. You can also use the dried persimmons found at many Asi...

Recipe: Apple-Blackberry Pie with Ginger

Pies are so beautiful! Even the lumpiest, strangest, most shrunken-down crust has a homely beauty that promises deliciousness. Our pie from this week wasn't the best pie we've ever made - it was a lit...

Recipe: Peach, Plum, and Ginger Jam

You may remember our last attempt at this jam, when it turned out a wee bit hard. But because the flavor was so good, and because we were determined not to let the jam win, we gave it another try... ...

Basil Infused Ginger and Cinnamon Ice Cream
Best Lick! 2008 Ice Cream Contest Entry #7

Original Ice Cream Flavor: Basil Infused Ginger and Cinnamon Ice Cream Ice Cream Chef:Christine What inspired this recipe? When my husband and I were in Portland recently, he ordered a basil-infused...

Recipe Review: Indian Spiced Carrot Soup with Ginger

We had a bunch of carrots to use this week and were craving something Indian-inspired. It being Escapes Month and all, this soup from Bon Appétit sounded like the perfect recipe to celebrate fa...

Tea Strainer and Garlic Grater: 2 Good Things From MUJI

We recently visited MUJI in New York, and we're really enjoying two of the things we brought back for our kitchen. ...

Cocktails and the Common Cold: Vodka, Honey, and Ginger

One of us has a wicked cold, and this cocktail from our inbox is looking mighty good. We're curious - do you have any cocktail remedies for the common cold? ...

Recipe: Clean-Out-the-Pantry Pumpkin, Peanut, & Ginger Soup

We're getting a head start on the spring Kitchn Cure, looking at our pantry and freezer with a skeptical eye. What are the foods that we won't want to eat in a month's time, when the greenmarkets are ...

Ingredient Spotlight: What is Galangal?

Last weekend we made our Malaysian Beef Curry, a slow, cinnamon and chili-spiced curry of beef slow-cooked in coconut milk and exotic flavorings. It's deep and rich, yet total home comfort food. ...

Video: Ginger from Spices of Life

Here's another quick video bite from Nina Simonds and Spices of Life. This week it's all about ginger - watch for tips on buying fresh ginger, the differences between crystallized and uncrystall...

How to Peel Ginger

Ginger is one of those herbs that we love all year round, but especially in February when it brightens up so many winter dishes with its fresh, spicy flavor. Right now we’re putting ginger in ever...

Recipe: Ginger Cinnamon Caramels

We are big fans of the fantastically spicy ginger chews from Ginger People (although... their oddly anthropomorphic ginger mascots? Cute or creepy?) Spicy ginger is comforting and warm, nice for win...

Good Product: McNess Ginger Extract

The McNess Company has been in business for almost a hundred years, selling livestock remedies and household products out of horse drawn delivery buggies. They are still in business today, offering h...