Cooking
It's dried dragon fruit, also known as Pitaya, Pink Pitaya, Red Pitahaya, Night blooming Cereus, Strawberry Pear, Belle of the Night, and conderella plant. The fresh stuff was recently blogged about by Nicky at Delicious Days. Though common to Mexico and Costa Rica, this dried dragon fruit came from Thailand.
Congratulations to Debra for correctly guessing the answer first (though in the future I will probably only allow one entry per person!) Second place goes to Jackie. Consolation prize for Fatemeh who correctly remembered Nicky's post. Kudos to Anthony, J and Tamara for your correct guesses. So many correct answers, ya'll are getting too smart for me!
Thanks for playing along.
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In Portland I found a very special delicacy that I had never before found in the US. I haven't even been able to find a a reliable recipe for it. At least two bloggers have written about their attempts to make it. Needless to say, I bought myself...
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So I didn't fool too many people with my quiz. I hope you had fun with it anyway! The Julia Child quote, according to Anne Willian anyway, is "One of the secrets of cooking is to correct something if you can or live with it if you cannot" So the...
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Cooking
Mystery Solved
It's dried dragon fruit, also known as Pitaya, Pink Pitaya, Red Pitahaya, Night blooming Cereus, Strawberry Pear, Belle of the Night, and conderella plant. The fresh stuff was recently blogged about by Nicky at Delicious Days. Though common to Mexico and Costa Rica, this dried dragon fruit came from Thailand.
Congratulations to Debra for correctly guessing the answer first (though in the future I will probably only allow one entry per person!) Second place goes to Jackie. Consolation prize for Fatemeh who correctly remembered Nicky's post. Kudos to Anthony, J and Tamara for your correct guesses. So many correct answers, ya'll are getting too smart for me!
Thanks for playing along.
- September Culinary Quiz!
1. In "The Omelette Show" an episode of The French Chef with Julia Child, which of the following does Julia NOT use to demonstrate beating eggs? A. whisk B. chopsticks C. fork 2. A charming blogger who lives in Paris recently gave me a gift of Maille...
- Carrot Contest
In Portland I found a very special delicacy that I had never before found in the US. I haven't even been able to find a a reliable recipe for it. At least two bloggers have written about their attempts to make it. Needless to say, I bought myself...
- Pizza Contest
Italy may be the birthplace of pizza, but it's plenty popular here in the U.S. where there are over 61,000 pizzerias, and 350 slices of pizza are consumed a second. Just how much do you know about American pizza? Take the quiz below and find out....
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So I didn't fool too many people with my quiz. I hope you had fun with it anyway! The Julia Child quote, according to Anne Willian anyway, is "One of the secrets of cooking is to correct something if you can or live with it if you cannot" So the...
- Contest: Tomato Sauce Trivia
I recently suggested that with all the variations possible with pesto, perhaps a pesto cookbook was in order. Little did I know there already was a pesto cookbook! Very Pesto is divided into four sections, Herb Pestos, Pasta & Pesto, For Openers:...