tropicalagriculture
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Make Your Own Aperitif With Oranges and Shitty Wine
Vin D’orange is so exquisite, I made it over and over, using the bounty of backyard fruit given to me by people with citrus trees. As I polish off winter back home in NYC, I’m California dreaming about the informal yard produce exchange network, and how it influenced my culinary habits for the better. Any…
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Caramelise a Lemon Immediately
We here at Skillet love to brown our food. We brown it deeply and thoroughly. We also love to caramelise. And while onions and other alliums get most of the attention when it comes to browning and caramelising, I’d like to bring your attention to another food that is transformed by the power of non-enzymatic…
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Vegetables You Can Chop in Advance (and the Ones You Shouldn’t)
It’s almost impossible to over-prep Thanksgiving. I say “almost” because my mum once cooked an entire Thanksgiving meal in advance, then reheated it on the big day. It was very much like we had all been in The Blip, and came back on the day after Thanksgiving. Some things just don’t age well, especially once…
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You Don’t Need a Lemon to Clean Your Microwave
For some reason, every single microwave-cleaning how-to we’ve published includes the use of a lemon, or lemon juice. This isn’t all that shocking; the citric acid in lemons has anti-microbial properties, and lemons make things smell good. Somewhat paradoxically, they’re also loved by the “chemical-free” crowd (even though fruit is incredibly chemically complex), and they…