almonds

  • This Orgeat Will Elevate Your At-Home Tiki Drinks

    This Orgeat Will Elevate Your At-Home Tiki Drinks

    Orgeat is something I only found out about in my 30s, about the time when I could confidently afford to go to a fancy cocktail bar and have that confidence dashed by not understanding ingredients on the drink menu. Googling this ingredient on my phone at the bar did two things: It made me look…


  • Upgrade Your Baked Goods With Almond Extract

    Upgrade Your Baked Goods With Almond Extract

    There was a time not long ago that vanilla reigned over the land of aromas. It’s in cookies, cakes, and foaming body wash. It’s written into the tomes of copy on chocolate morsel packages across the globe, and widely accepted as a balancer of flavours. Do you smell that? It’s not vanilla. I detect a…


  • The Fastest Way to Skin an Almond

    The Fastest Way to Skin an Almond

    You never thought the day would come. You need skinless, blanched almonds, and you need them now. You could rush over to the grocery store and pray that they have blanched almonds on the shelf, but what if they don’t? You can easily de-skin regular almonds at home in record time with a few common…