Tuesday, 26 May 2009

Carrot salad. Lettuce Cake. Brown rice in the Oven.



Recipe: Carrot salad with chilli, mint and coriander


The carrots are really just a vehicle for the dressing, aromatic herbs and punchy chilli. These are the flavours your wine needs to worry about.


Blog Post & Recipe: Spiced Lettuce Cake Bars


The cake bars are pretty good, and you wouldn’t know that they have lettuce in them unless someone directly told you or you didn’t get a great “shred” and a few big pieces slipped into the batter. They’re moist and soft, with a good balance of chewiness and tenderness.


Article: Brown rice often cooks better in oven


Q . What method can I use to prepare brown rice so that it will be tender and fluffy? When I cook it, it always comes out very sticky.

A . Tender and fluffy might be asking a little too much of brown rice. Each and every rice kernel in your pot is encased in a straitjacket of rice bran. There's simply not much room for expansion in there.

It's not fair to ask brown rice to be white rice. Let brown rice be itself -- a chewy, nutty, highly nutritious whole grain with a personality of its own -- and save yourself the disappointment.

That doesn't mean you need to settle for the sticky, glutinous rice you've been turning out. There is a relatively foolproof way of dealing with this recalcitrant grain ...



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