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Poll: How Do You Eat Your Watermelon?
A juicy wedge of watermelon: it's the quintessential summer fruit, but it sure presents a technique dilemma. Seed spitting contests aside, what's your handle on what to do with the seeds? Or do you just avoid the situation altogether? Take the poll! »Knife Skills: How to Cut Citrus Segments
Why cut your citrus fruits into pith-free segments? The pith is bitter and can ruin the flavor of the fruit, the membranes are papery and add nothing to fruit's flavor, and it makes you look way cool. Here's a video that shows you how to do it.Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Tropical Fruits?
Tropical fruits. Maybe mangoes, pineapples and coconuts come to mind. But what about lychees and jackfrut and rambutan? These make a great exotic surprise in any fruit salad. But before you head off to the grocery store, let's test how much you actually know about tropical fruits. Take the quiz! »The Brix Scale for Measuring Fruit Ripeness
Part of the fruit-buying experience is squeezing and poking around the heaping pile to find the just-right piece. But with the Brix scale, you can actually know the ripeness of fruit ahead of time. As Flavor Alchemy points out, the ratio of sugar to liquid in the fruit increases as it ripens, so if the Brix number is higher, the fruit is sweeter. Have you noticed Brix numbers in your supermarket's produce section?Have You Ever Seen a Double Banana?
[Photograph: Telegraph] Many of you have seen double egg yolks, but what about a double banana? Telegraph reports about a man who found a double banana at his local supermarket (slow news day, perhaps). I had never seen one before, and I've eaten many bananas in my life, but a search for "double banana" on Flickr came up with lots of results. Have you ever seen a double banana?...How to Make Homemade Fruit Rolls
[Photograph: Green Kitchen Stories] Growing up, my mom never let me eat Fruit Roll-Ups, but she'd sometimes buy me the less artificial fruit leather from the health food store. David and Luise of Stockholm-based food blog Green Kitchen Stories seem to have the same idea as my mom, except they decided to make fruit rolls at home. Although not a fast process, it's easy: purée fruit, pour into a parchment paper-lined baking sheet, and bake at 140°F (or as low as your oven can go) for 5 to 8 hours. If you plan on drying fruit frequently, you could invest in a dehydrator....Grapes, Four Ways
[Photograph: Herbivoracious] Seriously Meatless columnist Michael Natkin, the man behind Herbivoracious, takes some time to play with his food: This is one of my favorite kitchen creativity games. Take a single ingredient, and cut it as many ways as you can think of, then observe the way the cuts and textures change your perception. Then take it a step further and let those new perceptions suggest simple flavor pairings. Here he's applied this exercise to black seedless grapes to stunning effect....In Season: Grapefruit
[Photograph: Stephanvds on Flickr] After having one too many overindulgent meals for the past three days, I don't know about you, but I feel like I need to go on a detox immediately. Knowing that won't happen with leftovers calling my name and New Year's festivities right around the corner, partaking in some delicious and healthy grapefruit seems like a great compromise. Check out grapefruit recipes, tips, and info, after the jump....Snapshots from Italy: Persimmon Perfection
Gina is back in Italy for an overdue vacanza, so for the next few weeks, Seriously Italian is morphing back into Snapshots from Italy as she shares with you some of her favorite food outings. [Photographs: Gina DePalma] Autumn, or l'autunno, is my absolute favorite food season in Rome. At no other time of year will I find all of my favorites converging upon the market, at their peak, simultaneously. Puntarella and broccoli romanesco, porcini and ovoli, zucca and chestnuts, pears, apples and clementines-each one is enough to make me swoon with happiness. But then persimmons come along in the midst of all the bounty and put me right over the top. If you've never sunk a spoon into a...Hot Topics: Technique of the Week | The Food Lab
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8 Delicious Chocolate Cakes and Pies for Valentine's Day
Some might say that chocolate on Valentine's Day is about as unoriginal as you can get. We all remember the first heart-shaped box of overly sweet chocolate bonbons from grade school Valentines. But chocolate gift-giving needn't be a cliché. This year, let's bake our sweethearts chocolate cakes and pies instead! Here are 8 delicious recipes perfect for celebrating your love (of chocolate.)
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