by Nancy Gerlach, Fiery-Foods.com Food Editor Emeritus Recipes: Kung Po Chicken Southwest Jalapeño Pork Stir-Fry Hot and Sour Ginger Shrimp Stir-Fry Garlic Vegetable Sticks Lemon Cashew Chicken There are a number of reasons why choa or stir-fry cooking is popular. So popular, that this method of cooking is being used in a number of cuisines, not just Asian. One …
Funky, Fiery Fondues
by Nancy Gerlach Try Hosting a Retro Fondue Party with Friends! Recipes Fiesta Chile Cheese Fondue Fondue Bourguignonne Balsamic-Dijon Sauce Flamed Cognac and Green Chile Peppercorn Sauce Atomic Horseradish Sauce Mongolian Hot-Pot Sichuan Chile Sauce Kahlua, Ancho, and Chocolate Fondue A while back I was invited to a dinner party and was astonished at what was served: a seafood fondue …
Pungent Pickles
by Nancy Gerlach, fiery-foods.com Food Editor Emeritus Pungent Pickles Recipes: Devilish Dills Pickling Spice Curried East Indian Pickles Spicy Asian Ginger Pickles Orange Jalapeno Pickles Sichuan Pickles Pickles! Most people like them yet few seem to take the time to make them. But if you’re like me and grow cucumbers, once they start producing, it sure doesn’t …
Great Bowls of Fire–Spicy Soups
by Dave DeWitt and W.C. Longacre A Spicy Pair of Soupiers at Play: Excerpt from Great Bowls of Fire! Lemon Grass-Gingered Chicken Wonton Soup Won Ton Soup Broth Double Chile Vegetable Stew Creamy Green Chile and Bay Shrimp Chowder W.C.’s Green Chile Sauce Newspaper Soup UB Alarmed Five-Chile Chili Wild Mushroom Bisque with Grilled Chicken Soups are the elegant …
Chiles and Chocolate
by Dave DeWitt The culinary mating of hot chiles and chocolate was unforgettably revealed to me in the mercado in Oaxaca, where the molinos–grinding mills–in adjacent stalls were processing cacao beans in one stall and mole paste with chiles in the other. In this ancient city, I had this sudden epiphany that, in prehistoric times, ancient cooks would have naturally …