garlic confit

Confit began as a way to preserve food before refrigeration. Typically, confit is a method of cooking meat or vegetables in fat for several hours over low heat. This is fundamentally the difference between fried food and confit. The french word for jam is confiture so this term also applies to cooking fruit in a…

chewy dumpling soup

Every culture has a dish that is a careful blend of ingredients and / or a demonstration of technique or skill. Curries, paella, roti or machboos, bouillabaisse and sushi – all fit into these 2 categories. Some dishes even require a blend of different items to create a single ingredient which is then used to…