Category: food

I’ve chopped more onions than I can count while trying to figure out where one salsa ends and another begins. These two sauces, chimol vs pico de gallo, are both fresh tomato-based and they look similar but come from different traditions. Chimol is a Honduran fresh tomato relish or salsa, while Pico De Gallo is a traditional Mexican salsa. I used to think they were the same with different names…. I was wrong. Once I sat down with both, side by side, spoon in hand, the differences got visible. They were not dramatic differences but subtle ones. The kind that

I was thinking about making gnocchi at home and that was the moment this question came into my mind… “Can you make gnocchi with red potatoes?” Because the traditional way of making it is with russets. And then I opened my fridge and realized I had zero russets sitting around. What I DID have was a bag of red potatoes I’d bought for a different recipe that never happened.  So I stood there for a solid two minutes…staring at them. Could I pull this off? Would the gnocchi turn into little rubber bullets? I’d made gnocchi a dozen times before

When I was on a diet, I was craving for some pizza and that was the moment I thought about gluten free pizza and the question was on my mind when I was placing an order that “Is gluten free pizza good?” So, whether it is healthy or not depends on the ingredients used in it. But this is a misconception that it is healthier than regular pizza. I remember staring at the menu for a long time. My finger was hovering over the “gluten-free crust” option, and I kept thinking… this HAS to be the better choice? But, I