Most of us know fruit cocktail as the little diced fruit that comes out of a can. You can probably name the ingredients with your eyes closed: colored cherries, green grapes, peaches, pears and ...

1 inch by 1 inch piece of washed and unpeeled fresh ginger Instructions: Put chopped ginger, sugar and cups water in a saucepan and bring to a boil over medium heat. Decrease the heat and simmer, ...

While reading a British baking book, I recently came across an ingredient I was not familiar with: stem ginger in syrup. A quick internet search informed me stem ginger in syrup is basically chunks of ...

Did you know daiquiris are among the most versatile cocktails? The light rum-based cocktail lends itself to experimentation and pairs well with a variety of cuisines, says spirits writer Andre ...

Makes about 2 cups. Recipe is from “Shake, Stir, Pour: Fresh Homegrown Cocktails” by Katie M. Loeb (Quarry Books, 2012). Loeb says in the recipe’s introduction that ginger is “incredibly popular as a ...

Tofu gets a bum rap. Some people dismiss it as health food for vegans and hippies. Others think that it’s just a jiggly white brick with no flavor. That may be because people think of tofu only as the ...