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Using the Scoville Scale, what is the limit of Scoville Units a human can safely ingest?

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

I’ve been told that 800 000 S.U. can raise your blood pressure, which isn’t good, and I’ve been known to eat hot sauces like candy, so it’d be very helpful to know

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Mastering Three Pasta Sauce Recipes you can make Every Day

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

Making your own pasta sauce recipe is an easy, healthy and cost-effective way to get dinner done. When you learn some basic procedures, it becomes simple to make a variety of sauces to suit almost any pasta. And since you are controlling the ingredients, you know exactly how this sauce ranks on the healthy scale. A great added bonus to going homemade is that making your own sauce will even save you money over buying the jarred variety. Really – there is no reason making homemade sauces shouldn’t become a part of your cooking toolkit – a skill you’ll be able to use almost every day. Let’s review the procedures of three of the most popular and common sauces you’ll encounter when making pasta.

Become a Master of the Marinara Sauce Recipe

Tomato Sauce is one of the five “Mother Sauces” in French culinary and the starting point for any marinara sauce recipe. There are two parts to this sauce that are made separately with their own procedure and then come together at the end: tomato concasse and a sauce “base”. The sauce base can be meat, vegetables, broth, seafood – whatever you will be using to make YOUR marinara sauce recipe. Tomato concasse sounds fancy, but it simply means a mixture of tomatoes coarsely chopped. But – there is a trick to getting this mixutre sans seeds and skins. Here’s my quick technique for blanching tomatoes, which is the first step in making tomato sauce:

Core tomatoes on one end and score an “x” on the other side with a knife. This will be where the skin peels away during boiling. Place tomatoes in a pot of boiling water. When the skin at the “x” has peeled back, it is time to remove the tomato and shock it in an ice water bath to stop the cooking. This will vary by tomato due to size and ripeness. Peel and seed the tomatoes. Peeling should be very easy. If it’s not, the tomato didn’t stay in the boiling water long enough.

Depending how you’d like your marinara sauce recipe to end up, you can puree the tomato concasse or keep it chunky.

Now, onto the sauce base. For a simple marinara sauce recipe, you will probably keep this vegetarian, adding vegetables if you prefer a chunky sauce or vegetable broth if you prefer a smoother sauce:

Saute chopped onions and garlic in a hot pan with a small amount of olive oil. Add your tomato concasse (or puree). This is also where you’d add any other vegetables, like mushrooms or peppers, to your tomato sauce. Add vegetable broth and reduce to almost dry. Add tomato paste to thicken and color – heat through. Add the seasonings of your choice. Basil and oregano are the common ones, but experiment to find what you like.

You’ve now got a great homemade pasta sauce recipe that you can make almost any night of the week. My guess is that this process would take you about 30-45 minutes to prepare. During this time, your pasta is cooking and your meal is ready in under an hour!

Make any White Sauce Recipe with One Procedure

When you think of a white sauce recipe, most often what you are imagining has its roots in the French mother sauce, bechamel. Bechamel forms the foundation for every white sauce recipe – including the favorite fetuccine Alfredo or even the classic macaroni and cheese. The key to making this velvety white sauce smooth is knowing how much milk to add. This is something that is best determined with your eyes – not a recipe!

You start by melting butter on the stove and then removing it from the heat. As you add some flour – a little at a time – you will be watching for the mixture to thicken up to the consistency of wall paper paste. When it does, you’ve got roux and it is time to return to the heat. Your goal here is to cook the proteins out of the flour. You will know this has happened when the majority of the roux has turned from yellow to white. During the process, you will smell a toasty smell as the proteins cook out. Now you can start adding milk. This is the most important step in making this sauce so take your time here. You will continue to add milk – a little at a time – until the sauce stops thickening. So here’s the process:

Add some milk and stir. Stop stirring and observe. If sauce starts thickening back up over the heat, add more milk. Continue steps 1-3 until the sauce doesn’t thicken back up (in step 3).

I like a garlic flavor to my white sauce recipe so here’s a trick for adding garlic, but not adding the lumps of chopped garlic. I simmer whole garlic cloves in the sauce for a bit and then remove them before serving. This will infuse a nice garlic flavor into my white sauce recipe. Finally, if you are making an Alfredo (or macaroni and cheese), this is where you would add your favorite cheese(s), stirring over heat as they melt.

A Buttery Garlic Sauce Recipe in Less then 30 Minutes

I saved my favorite garlic sauce recipe for last for a couple of reasons. First, it is a great sauce because you can make it rather quickly, using ingredients you most likely have on hand. However, this homemade pasta sauce recipe can be a little bit trickier than the first two, which makes some shy away from it. But, don’t worry. With a few tips, you’ll be making this one like a pro tonight!

Again, we start with one of the French culinary mother sauces – this time: beurre blanc, a saute of shallot (with garlic) and any liquid mounted with cold butter. The trick to this sauce is to always keep the butter yellow. If your butter stays yellow, it means that the sauce has not broken. Here is my best tip for keeping the butter yellow in your garlic sauce recipe. This is one time, we don’t start with a hot pan (as we normally would in saute method). The cold pan and cold butter hit the heat together. To melt the butter, without burning it:

Melt a little bit of butter. Remove from hit and swirl around to melt more butter Return to heat for a couple of seconds to get the butter hot again. Remove from heat and swirl around to melt more butter. Repeat steps 1-4 until all the butter is melted.

When the butter is melted, you add your shallot and garlic and saute, but you don’t want to brown anything here. Controlling the heat (so as not to separate the butter) is the most important secret for success when making this sauce. Keep the butter yellow – can’t stress that enough! Once the shallots and garlic have cooked to become translucent in color, add a cold liquid (usually white wine) and then cold butter, cut in consistent squares. If the pan starts to get too hot (as evidenced by white specs floating to the top of the butter), you will remove it from heat and add more cold butter to cool the sauce quickly. You can always heat it back up again when you cool it – but you can’t fix it once it has actually broken. When you are satisfied with the consistency and flavor of the garlic sauce recipe you’ve created, add salt and white pepper to taste and serve on your favorite pasta.

A great pasta sauce recipe starts where all sauces start – basic cooking methods and the “mother sauces” of French culinary. You don’t have to be a chef to apply these techniques and make everyday cooking at home easier, tastier and cheaper than eating out at your favorite restaurant.

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Indian Style Chinese Hot Garlic

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

Chicken hot garlic recipe for Indian Style Chinese Hot and Spicy Garlic Chicken containing small boneless breast pieces Chicken chopped Garlic Red Chili Powder Tomato Sauce. I make Garlic Chicken at home as a main dish, so the ratio of meat is higher than many Chinese recipes. Delicious sauce recipe you can easily cook. Authentic and healthy Chinese food that is easy and quick to cook.

These wings are sweet and sticky like candy! The sauce can be reheated and poured over a side dish of rice. Make sure to bring the sauce to a boil, and simmer for several minutes to kill any bacteria that may be present. The place I frequent on campus is currently serving Buffalo Chicken on Garlic Wraps and I’m curious as to what that’d be like.

1. Heat honey, soy sauce, and garlic in a saucepan until boiling.

2. Place the wings in the bottom of a 9 x 13 inch baking pan, and pour the honey mixture over the chicken. Cover with foil. Marinate in the refrigerator for a few hours or overnight.

3. Bake, covered, at 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) for 1 hour; turn the wings after 1/2 hour. Remove the foil cover, and bake for 15 minutes. Take the wings out of the sauce, and bake on a rack for 10 minutes. Turn the chicken wings, and cook for another 10 minutes.

Chicken hot garlic is a great chicken dish. Hot Garlic Chicken Saute Recipes selected by the collective tastebuds of the masses from Group Recipes. Some garlic chicken recipes involve roasting a whole chicken. That’s great – if you’ve got both the time and enough people to eat the chicken! Please purchase online www.indomunch.com in NewYork city.

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Spicy Thai fish sauce, and the spicy and sweet Vietnamese fish sauce. How do I make both kinds?

Friday, January 8th, 2010
ACB11180 asked:

The spicy Thai fish sauce with chili peppers that you would find at a table at Thai restaurants.

The spicy and sweet Vietnamese fish sauce that is served with deep fried egg rolls at Vietnamese restaurants.

How do I make them?

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Peppers Help you Lose Weight

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Sweet peppers and black peppers do not belong to the same family. Sweet peppers are plump, bell-shaped vegetables featuring either three or four lobes.

Peppers are loved for their versatility in many great dishes, including grilled for barbecues, stuffed with desired filling and baked, steamed with other veggies, cooked in sauces or stir-fries, or eaten cold, crisp and raw in salads or as snacks any time of the day. It?s no wonder they are the favourites of the vegetarians and vegans.

They come from the colorful Capsicum family which can be split into two main categories – sweet bell peppers and the spicy chillies, such as jalapenos. The difference arises from the presence of capsaicin in chillies (which is explained later) but not in sweet bell peppers.

Sweet bell peppers are also known as capsicums, sweet peppers or green/red peppers.

All sweet bell peppers start out green and change color as they ripen. Depending on the stage of ripeness and their variety, their colors range from orange, yellow, red, purple, brown, black, ivory or green and so do their sweetness.

But green bell peppers remain green throughout the ripening process. Thus, it can be challenging to differentiate the other bell peppers from the green variety before they ripen.

All peppers are an excellent source of vitamin C. Green bell peppers contain as much as two times of vitamin C as oranges while red or yellow pepper pack three or four times the daily value of vitamin C.

Besides power-packed with vitamin C, bell peppers also provide vitamin B6, phytochemicals such as lycopene and beta-carotene (the precursor for vitamin A), folate, potassium and plenty of fiber. Chilli peppers contain an additional substance, called capsaicin which has many health benefits:

· Effective treatment and natural pain relief for inflammation such as arthritis, psoriasis, diabetic neuropathy.

· Reduce risk of heart attack and stroke as it helps to reduce cholesterol levels and formation of blood clots.

· Clear blocked nose and congested lungs.

· Prevent prostate cancer by inhibiting growth of cancerous cells · Prevent stomach ulcers by killing bacteria in the stomach and stimulate more protective stomach juices.

· Help to lose weight as it speeds up the body?s metabolism rate, suppresses appetite and cravings for sweet foods.

· Lower risk of Type 2 diabetes by controlling the blood sugar.

Capsaicin is what makes the chillies hot as it produces a strong burning sensation in the mouth. The seeds are not the main culprits for causing the hotness. Actually, capsaicin is most concentrated in the white membrane where the seed is attached.

Thus, you should be careful when handling the chilli peppers so as not to let them come in contact with your skin or eyes such as rubbing your eyes with your hands after touching the chillies. Wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water after handling the chillies.

Should you eat a really hot chilli which causes an unbearable burning sensation in your mouth, drink milk or eat yogurt, rice or bread instead of water to ease the pain.

Here are a few tips on how to handle the chillies skillfully:

· Wear gloves.

· To remove the seeds without touching them, hold the chilli stem and cut open with a paring knife. Cut away the membranes and seeds with the knife. Using a melon baller can also do the trick. Soak the chillies in water for another 15 minutes before cutting them. Note that this will only reduce but will not fully remove the ?hotness? of the chillies.

· If you do not need to remove the seeds, just hold the chili by the stem and cut the chillies into rings. Asians like to eat the raw chillies as a dip in this manner, with the chillies soaked in lime juice or soy sauce.

Chilli peppers come in different sizes, shapes and degrees of heat or spiciness. The more mature the pepper, the hotter it will be. To measure the heat level in chillies, the Scoville Scale is often used. The Scoville Scale converts the amount of capsaicin in parts per million into Scoville heat units. So the greater the number of Scoville Scale, the hotter the pepper. A sweet bell pepper measures 0 Scoville unit and a habaneros or scotch bonnet, the hottest known chilli peppers, records at around 300,000 units.

Peppers are available in the markets all year round. Choose well-shaped, firm and glossy peppers which feel heavy for their size. Look out for unhealthy peppers with soft or wrinkled areas, cracks, slashes or black spots. Except for jalape? which often have shallow cracks at their stem ends, chili peppers should be free of crack.

It?s best to wrap the peppers in paper bags or paper towels and store in the refrigerator to keep their freshness, up to 5 days for bell peppers and up to 3 weeks for chilli peppers.

Remember to wash the peppers before cooking so as to remove the wax on their surfaces.

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