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Spice Up Your Pan Sauces with Habanero Peppers
Pan sauces are a great way to add a ton of flavor to your meal. A pan sauce is a simple thing with complex flavor, as it utilizes the brown bits of meat and seasonings leftover at the bottom of the pan after you’ve sauteed your meal. Those little brown bits are jam packed with flavors and it is sad to see them go to waste. Incorporating a bit of habanero peppers into them will add an additional flavor element and will make the chilihead in you very happy. Continue reading
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A Tip for Cutting Thawed Bacon
Why does cutting thawed bacon cause such a problem? I like to cook with bacon. Not just bacon by itself, which is tasty, but cooking bacon into dishes. Bacon brings a deep flavor to sauces, livens up vegetables like brussels sprouts and asparagus, adds new dimension to soups, stews and chilies, and compliments any number of meals. Bacon bits or fake bacon doesn’t really cut it. I often don’t need much bacon for any particular recipe, so I like to buy it by the pound and separate it into 4 or 6 slices, then freeze them. Continue reading
