by cheri | Aug 21, 2014 | Ingredients 101, Interesting or Strange
Did you ever eat spinach and end up later on with a weird feeling in your mouth or all over your teeth? Like, you had just sucked on some sandpaper and your teeth or your tongue feels funny? Your teeth feel like they’re coated in some weird chalky substance? Or...
by cheri | Aug 17, 2014 | Ingredients 101, Interesting or Strange
If you thought there were only 4 tastes, you thought wrong. There are actually 5! bitter salty sweet sour umami (pronounce it like “ooo-MOM-ee”) So just what is umami? Umami is a word that describes this fifth flavor, but the concept is a bit difficult to...
by cheri | Aug 3, 2014 | Ingredients 101
Did you ever look at the label of an oil that you were buying and see the term “expeller-pressed”? First things first, if you see that term, it means it’s a good oil to buy. But why? Expeller-pressed is the way the oil is made. The way it is...
by cheri | May 24, 2012 | Ingredients 101, Interesting or Strange, Recipe, Rice/Noodles
Having food poisoning one time caused me to revert to my white-starch-eating childhood ways. I had regular old Uncle Ben’s instant rice for the first time in…..I don’t even remember the last time. And lemme tell you…. Plain old instant...
