Noodles Knows

If you’ve ever had grits, polenta, or other foods made with cornmeal, you’ve eaten the very same maize corn that is used to make hominy. Hominy is a corn product made by soaking the kernels of maize corn (not the sweet corn we nibble off …

Most people are turned off by the very thought of cold soup. Bleh! Are we just too lazy to cook food properly anymore? Hardly! Some soups are meant to be eaten chilled; in fact they would taste pretty weird if they were hot. According to …

Can you guess what this is? I’ll give you three clues: it’s used in Italian cooking, it is not grown on plants, and it is not commonly found in grocery stores (and obviously it begins with the letter F).….Give up? The image to the right …

Edamame. Freshly steamed in their pods and served piping hot, flecked with small shards of sea salt – what a perfect aperitif to a traditional Japanese sushi meal. If you are a sushi lover, like me, you’ve most likely had edamame prepared this way at …

Have you ever had a date? And no, I am not talking about the girl or guy you asked to your senior prom. I’m talking about the sugary, sweet fruit that people often confuse with prunes or figs. Dates are dense, nutrient-packed and intensely sweet …

Every once in a while I come across an unusual ingredient that I perhaps read about or had seen used on television, but I never get the chance to taste or cook with it myself. That was not such the case when I encountered chayote …

Today’s post is all about cheese, burrata to be more specific. Burrata, Italian for “buttered,” is a cow’s milk mozzarella cheese with a cream center. Basically it’s a cheese purse filled with more oozy cheese. The mozzarella is made the traditional way by adding rennet …

Let’s play the alphabet game. I am challenging myself for the next 26 days (because there are 26 letters in the English alphabet), to post about a particular food or ingredient each day that begins with the specified letter of the day. So, let’s begin …