kitchenelf
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Black or "forbidden" rice. Nice flavor, great texture. Not as chewy/crunchy as wild or brown rice.
Be careful--it will stain things dark purple.
I LOVE forbidden rice - good suggestion!
Black or "forbidden" rice. Nice flavor, great texture. Not as chewy/crunchy as wild or brown rice.
Be careful--it will stain things dark purple.
I was just in our Trader Joe's yesterday looking for it, but they did not have it.FM - you might have to go to a specialty food store - I haven't found it in our "normal" stores. Dean & Deluca, Whole Foods (though I didn't find it the last time I was there), Fresh Market, we don't have a Trader Joe's so I don't know about them.
if you're into gardening fennel is the easiest plant to grow and I think that black swallowtails use it as a host plant for their larvae. I love to go out and pick it right off the plant (I don't use pesticides and mine has never had a pest problem and I would never kill the butterfly larvae---it's great to eat raw or in tea or in cooking)
I have more new kinds of caradamom that I can remember but have yet to open the packages they're contained in. Guess I should.......ground cardamom, cardamom roots, cardamom pods. They add great flavor to Asian rice dishes. Steaming the rice with cardamom pods and lemon grass is really good. Cardamom is really expensive where I live though, hopefully it isn't for you. In fact, if anyone out there knows where to get a good deal on it send me a PM or post it somewhere.
Hi neighbor!Phyllo dough. I just bought it, and haven't made anything with it yet. I kept seeing recipes that use it, so I looked for it the last time I went shopping. I'd never seen it before. I think it's a pastry dough in thin sheets. Anybody ever work with it?