Culinary Conundrums: What Does It Mean to Cook a Vegetable Until ‘Tender-Crisp’?
It must have been sometime in the 70’s when the phrase ‘tender-crisp’ began to appear in recipes and food articles. It started showing up around the time that people were rebelling against the limp, soggy, over-boiled vegetable offerings of the previous decades. Health food and hippie food was all the rage and vegetables were getting a major makeover. But what exactly does it mean to cook a vegetable tender-crisp? How can it be both at once?
Oct 4, 2012
Recipe: Whipped Sweet Potatoes with Coconut Milk & Vanilla Bean
These whipped sweet potatoes are a great recipe when you need to get out of a vegetable rut. They’re a little more dressed up than the average weeknight side so think of them as a minimalist dish for your holiday feast. With coconut milk for interest and richness, and a swirl of vanilla bean paste, consider adding this to the Thanksgiving table when you want something on the sweeter side that still leaves the marshmallows out of the equation.
Oct 4, 2012