Roasted Red Pepper Cream Sauce
A great way to use up your sweet red peppers: a roasted red pepper cream sauce with garlic and shallots. This simple cream sauce is great served with poultry and fish.
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How to Eat a Dragon Fruit or Pitahaya
The exotic dragon fruit (pitahaya) also goes by the name ‘moonflower’, which gets its name from it nocturnal blooming nature. There are three different varieties of the sweet dragon fruit, each sporting a different colored fruit, and a sour dragon fruit. Each is refreshing to eat fresh in its own way.
No matter the variety, here is how to eat a dragon fruit.
How to Eat a Dragon Fruit
There are two basic ways to eat a dragon fruit: peel and cut up into cubes; or scoop the flesh out with a spoon. Chill before eating for best flavor. The dragon fruit makes a very pretty addition to fruit salads and smoothies.
- Cut the dragon fruit in half and either cut off the peel with a sharp paring knife, or scoop out the cut half with a spoon. The seeds are edible, but the skin isn’t, so if there is any remaining skin trim that off. Then, cut the fruit up.
- Cut the dragon fruit in half. Use a spoon to scoop the flesh out, omitting any of the skin.
Tips for Grilling Vegetables and a Recipe for Grilled Vegetable Vinaigrette
Grilled vegetables are best when kept simple – allowing their true flavors to burst through. They are especially nice when tossed with a light dressing just before serving, like the basic vinaigrette below. Grilled Vegetables Tips On the grill – keep it simple. Quick cooking over high heat. Just salt and pepper, and …
How to Make Ravioli: Semolina or Flour Pasta Recipes
Ravioli is simply a filling surrounded by two layers of pasta dough. The shapes range from round, square, half-moon, etc. Whatever shape you can think of consisting of two pieces of pasta with a filling, that’s a ravioli. Types of Pasta Doughs: Semolina or Flour Two …
Spinach, Parmesan, and Ricotta Ravioli
This ravioli filling uses your fresh spinach with ricotta and Parmesan cheeses.
Spinach, Parmesan, and Ricotta Ravioli
Ingredients
- 1/2 pound fresh spinach parboiled or sauteed, drained, squeezed, chopped
- 1/2 pound ricotta cheese
- 1 cup Parmesan fresh grated
- 2 eggs
- Seasonings to taste: Salt pepper, allspice, nutmeg
Instructions
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Place spinach, ricotta, parmesan, and eggs in a mixing bowl. Sprinkle with seasonings to taste. Mix until combined.
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Place spoonfuls of filling in straight rows on fresh pasta sheets, about 2 inches apart. Brush a little egg wash in between the filling mounds. Place another pasta sheet over the top. Press down between the mounds to seal the sheets together. Cut between the mounds with a fluted cutter to separate the ravioli.
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Allow to stand for about 20 minutes, and then boil for 5 minutes in salted water just until done.
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Drain; serve.
Basil Three Cheese Ravioli
This recipe uses fresh basil and parsley with ricotta, Parmesan, and cottage cheeses.
Salsa de Chile Rojo Recipe Using Dried Ancho and Pequin Chiles
Use your dried Ancho and Pequin chiles for this hot sauce.
Japones or Hontaka Hot Sauce (Using Homemade Chile Paste)
This recipe uses the Japones or Hontaka Chile Paste, and produces a hot sauce that is great served with grilled vegetables and meats. For best flavor, let it rest for up to an hour before serving to truly let the flavors marry.
Japones or Hontaka Hot Sauce
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/2 cup chopped cilantro
- 1/2 cup finely chopped yellow onion
- 1 to 1 tablespoons Japones or Hontaka Chile Paste
- 1 to 2 garlic cloves finely chopped
- Salt to taste
Instructions
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Whisk the oil, vinegar, and water together in a mixing bowl. Add in the rest of the ingredients.
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Season to taste with salt.
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Cover with plastic wrap, and let the hot sauce rest an hour before serving.
Japones or Hontaka Red Chile Paste
If you are growing some of these chiles and are wondering if there is anything to do with them besides adding these spicy peppers to Szechuan chicken or to chutneys, give this recipe a try. Pick some from your garden and completely dry them out before …
Deep Frying Veggies with Amanda Cohen
Deep frying some vegetables from the garden today and don’t know where to start? Amanda Cohen gives a great deep fat cooked veggie primer via Vice and Munchies. She deep fries in three different ways: her vodka batter, a panko or crumb crust using the …