Spicy Tips
Tips on spices, teas, cooking, brewing, and more.
Homemade syrup
Homemade syrups for coffees, cocktails, and teas are so easy to make at home
When to use each kind of vanilla
When to use vanilla extract verses paste verses powder verses whole beans
Chicken with Hazelnut Sukkah
I roasted some bone in chicken thighs generous sprinkle of Hazelnut Dukkah on each side - delicious
Blend spices until it smells right
I am one of those cooks who is not a baker because I do not like to follow directions. I mostly go by smell of a near finished product.
Pasta Water Tips
1. Salt the pasta water - I know this one is pretty simple and most people know it but it makes such a big difference...
Cinnamon Toast Spice past the toast
Oatmeal, whipped cream, sweet potatoes, rice pudding.
Two things to shake on buttered noodles
Osaka Seasoned Salt for sesame and a bit of heat, poppy seed for the old-fashioned version.
Cook your spices in the fat first
Thirty seconds in the butter before the broth goes in changes the whole pot.
Smoked Sweet Paprika in tomato soup
One teaspoon, and canned tomatoes taste like they cooked all afternoon.
A little Nutmeg in the cheese sauce
A quarter teaspoon, grated into the béchamel.
