Magical fruit, musical fruit, whatever you want to call it – beans have a bad reputation for producing both auditory and olfactory offense. Guilty as charged, the seemingly innocuous legume has been the source of many bouts of embarrassment, anguish, and undoubtedly the source material for some of the best movie quotes of all time. [...]
We love asparagus – these sprouts are one of our favorite veggies. So here are a few tips for choosing and preparing asparagus.
When buying asparagus, choose ones with firm sprouts and a dark green color throughout most of the stalk. If the cut ends are very pale then the asparagus is unripe – choose another.
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Cooking with oils has become a sensitive topic of late. Some nutritional experts think it’s ok to fry your food in oil. Others think that the heating of oil changes the oil composition, making it less healthy. So what are you to do?
Well, because it is true that some oils can change with different cooking [...]