How To Cook With Ghee

Pots with a deep layer of rust may benefit from an overnight soak.Before proceeding to the next portion, which mostly requires patience and elbow grease (also known as pure muscle power!), I recommend that you put on disposable gloves.

This year, I'm planning to growYard Long beans, which can grow a yard long, but are best eaten when they reach 12 to 18-inches. March brings us "National Nutrition Month", a time to celebrate healthy eating.

Pam has to be back on bus-driving duty in the afternoon.Tea, Thyme, And Toast sprang from Pam's desire to bake and cook and the availability of the little one room school sitting empty in the town of Eddyville.

Dyeing carnations is a common process, and is easy to do at home There will be streaks and veins in the flowers, and there will always be most of the white carnation visible.If you like, arrange the different colored carnations in a vase and enjoy the...

It is fun to experiment with ginger beer and produce different flavours. Ginger beer had been the most popular alcoholic beverage in England for almost 200 years.Real ginger beer has since faded into obscurity.

A more appealing green color can shine through and the dark color can be avoided simply by coating the leaves with olive oil before freezing.Making and freezing pesto in large or small containers (even ice cube trays), simply can't be beat forpreserving...

Rosemary flowers can be used in salads or as a garnish.As useful as rosemary is, I think one of its most important features is that it attracts hundreds of bees when it is in bloom.With the concern of the colony collapse, I think planting their favorites...

Keep any unused infusion in the refrigerator and use within a week or two.Lavender essential oil has antiseptic qualities and can be used for fungal problems. Give the bag an occasional squeeze to refresh the scent and these bags can last for years.A...

Growing up in the South, we ate grits, tomato gravy and cathead biscuits because it was an economical meal. Cook the grits according to the package directions.For cathead biscuits, you may use any good baking powder biscuit recipe.

I spit it right back out. We can make hominy out of dried yellow or white corn, the taste has very little difference and the process and nutritional value is all the same. The process is to remove the germ and the hard outer hull from the kernels, which...

Most of these recipes are not written down, but certain techniques and Dixie wisdom are necessary for their success. Pour the mixture into a sizzling skillet and pat down with your fingertips to flatten and shape to fit the skillet.

If you are lucky enough to have a food dehydrator, place them in it on low heat. Dried leaves will be bright green and crumbly. Herb gardeners are anxious to include this plant in their gardens for its usefulness and novelty.

Just substitute cilantro leaves for the cup of packed basil leaves, and process as you would normally in a blender or food processer with ¼ cup of grated parmesan and 1/8 c. They are making "pestos" out of most anything pungent and green these days,...

Please let me explain... The older the nut, the less of this soft substance, which is why you will rarely find it in supermarket nuts.The Coconut Palm is sometimes referred to as the "Tree of Life", and island people will use every little bit of the tree...

Maybe you blanched at the price of fresh herbs in the produce section this spring, or you were seduced by a bright pot of basil at your local nursery, and you thought, "Hey! This year, I will grow my own herbs!" Now you've got leggy basil plants blooming...

Sherry is more alcoholic than wine, but its mild warm flavor may virtually transport you to Mediterranean Spain. So sherry is fermented grape juice that is fortified with more fermented grape juice (like brandy).

Sarah R/Flickr Delicious recipes start with the freshest ingredients. These tips will help you navigate your purchase and tackle the task of cooking these delicious mushrooms once you're back in the kitchen.

The oldest record of cauliflower dates back to the 6th century B.C. Pliny wrote about it in the 2nd century after Christ.In the 12th century three varieties were described infor more than a thousand years and it was mentioned as growing inby European...

Oats are a good source of nutrition for horses, dairy cattle, and poultry (the oat hulls are turned into poultry mash). Nothing tastes better on a chilly winter morning than a steaming bowl of cooked oatmeal or porridge, dappled with raisins or blueberries,...

I prefer the ones with cottage cheese, honey and wheat germ (they sneak in a little extra nutrition).Dill is a key ingredient in Polow, a Persian (Iranian) rice dish. The pan the cutlets were cooked in is deglazed with chicken stock.

Another friend asked me what is lovage; he didn't even knew what it looked like. At first I used to dry them between 2 sheets of paper; then I tried keeping them in a jar, with salt; but the most effective, which saves the flavor, is freezing.

Just imagine! Consequently, it makes sense that oils (any oils, organic, mineral, coconut or olive) would be wonderful at making pigments and dyes that last, and in fact they are. In Europe, Great Britain and Asia, rapeseed oil for human consumption is...

Peel large-fruited or white varieties - they can be bitterer than the other types. Give them a try. Then rinse and use as directed. Once the fruits start to get big, however, eggplants can flop over and break very easily, so install 3' high cages at planting...

When I make pizza sauce, I like to get a huge pot bubbling, but you can sauce about three pizzas with the following: A small onion and four cloves of garlic sauteed until translucent.

Http://www.americasheartland.org/episodes/episode_118/truffles.htm Here in the United States we have recently begun cultivating truffles and have trained dogs to sniff them out. (Think underground mushrooms.) They are indeed hunted with female pigs capable...

I naively assumed that my unspoiled, easy to dig, sandy/loamy soil would be naturally fertile. When the vines dry up in late summer, cut the stems and gather the fruit. Care to read my words of wisdom on both aspects of butternutticity?

When thinking about chives most people concentrate on the foliage (which look like grass blades).However, every part of the chive plant is edible, and you can use the bulb like a mild onion in a pinch.The foliage can be added to dumpling or biscuit dough...