Every Wednesday at midday, the Washington Put up Meals workers fields questions on all issues edible at live.washingtonpost.com. Listed here are edited excerpts from a current chat.
I can’t stand greens – lettuce, arugula, spinach, combined greens, and so on. – I don’t like several of them. Are there any salads you actually love which can be primarily simply the great elements of salad with no (or minimal) greens? They’re all the time my hurdle to having salads frequently.
Take into account a Cobb salad! The leafy greens are non-compulsory, in my view, and you may choose and select the greens, proteins, crunchy additions and dressing you want. – G. Daniela Galarza
In summer season, how about panzanella? – Becky Krystal
What are your favourite methods to decorate up cabbage as a main-course salad?
I like the thought of slaws as a foremost course! To show them right into a foremost course, I like considering of them as I might some other salad. Pulled rooster, pork or beef, cooked and drained chickpeas or different beans, crisped cubed tofu or shredded tempeh could possibly be tossed in with a slaw to bulk it up right into a foremost course. – GDG
I had simply pruned some leaves from my dwarf banana plant after I noticed a recipe for fish fillets en papillote. I’m so excited to do this with banana leaves as a substitute of paper! Do you could have any expertise or ideas for utilizing banana leaves for cooking a dish?
What a fantastic concept! You possibly can completely try this with this recipe for fish fillets en papillote – simply ensure the leaves are sufficiently big. First, I might steam the leaves so they’re versatile sufficient to make packets out of. Then, wrap the fish and any additions into the insides, wrapping them in addition to you’ll be able to, and utilizing toothpicks to create seams as near the highest of every packet as doable.
In case your banana leaves aren’t sufficiently big, you’ll be able to nonetheless seize the flavour of the leaves by together with smaller items into the parchment packet. These packets, just like the paper ones, aren’t hermetic, and that’s superb as a result of the steam wants a spot to flee anyway. – GDG
Have any of you used your convection ovens as air fryers? Do any recipe changes should be made?
One factor I got here throughout in my analysis is that there are giant air fryer baskets you need to use in your ovens. It additionally appears that the oven setting is barely much less environment friendly than countertop air fryers (as a result of measurement), so recipes may take a bit of longer. – Aaron Hutcherson
When recipes name for coconut milk, does it ever imply the sort within the refrigerated part close to the opposite kinds of plant milk, or ought to I all the time assume it means the canned type? And what’s the distinction between the 2 sorts?
I suppose, ideally, recipes could be clearer and say canned after they imply it, however that’s the default I assume except it specifies in any other case. If you use canned milk, you need to shake it effectively earlier than opening, or whisk or mix it again collectively after opening as a result of, sure, it will possibly separate out between the fats and the liquid.
Some recipes name for simply the fats/cream, during which case it can let you know that’s the half you need, generally together with directions to refrigerate the can to encourage the separation that lets the cream rise to the highest. Canned coconut milk is thicker, with extra fats. Within the carton, it has extra water. Extra of a beverage or a swap for dairy milk in baking, and so on. – B.Ok.
