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Raw Cacao Butter - What do I do with it?
Thanks Emme. I'll give the chocolate frosting a try. I'm trying to find a vegan buttercream recipe without using vegan margarine, and thought cocoa butter would be a great substitute.
Raw Cacao Butter - What do I do with it?
Hi Emme...Could you please share the cocoa buttercream frosting recipe? Thanks in advance.
H Mart [Not] Closed!
Where are they moving? Will they still be located in Burlington?
H Mart [Not] Closed!
Yep, still closed. Made the mistake of going there for lunch and there were no cars in the parking lot.
Tamale Ingredients - Where in Boston?
I'm partial to Oaxacan style tamales myself, so I use banana leaves. These can easily be found in the freezer section of Asian groceries. Prior to wrapping the tamales, make sure to soften the banana leaves by quickly heating over an open flame or by steaming.
If you've had cochinita pibil before, you can try that as a fillling, although it is mighty fine on its own. I'm vegetarian now so I don't think I'll find out for sure if it's a good tamale filling.
Can't have dairy, how is butter flavor Crisco and lactaid milk/Silk in baking?
Thanks. I have a great all-butter pie crust recipe, and would like to sub coconut oil. I don't know if the coconut oil pie crusts turn out as flaky though.
I'm actually partial to the taste of coconut oil so I doubt I'll miss the non-butter flavor.
Can't have dairy, how is butter flavor Crisco and lactaid milk/Silk in baking?
How do you substitute coconut oil for butter in baking? Is it one-to-one part by weight and/or volume?
White Cake that has a very fine crumb and light texture
Ah, nice to know. I like the whisper cake because I'm a fan of white chocolate (ones with actual cocoa butter.)
White Cake that has a very fine crumb and light texture
I've made Rose Levy Beranbaum's white chocolate whisper cake before, and loved how tender and fine the crumb is. OTOH, you can taste some of the white chocolate, so don't make this if you're not partial to this flavor.
Simple Sensual Chocolate Dessert Recipe Needed for V Day
Beranbaum's chocolate torte needs only three things: chocolate, butter and eggs. For the amount of effort, the result is surprisingly silky, decadent, luscious and chocolatey. Needless to say, use the best chocolate you can find:
http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/000287.html
In the Cake Bible, Beranbum lists a couple of variations, including adding raspberry puree, liqueur or praline paste, IIRC.
Ritu Ki Rasoi in Burlington
They have khasta kachori and a good selection of Indian street food.
I had cabbage and peas and methi rajma. Both were flavorful and pleasantly light on oil. I had gobi manchurian to go, and that was wonderful. Crisp cauliflower in a piquant sauce. I'll try the haka noodles next; they do have a variety of Indo-Chinese items in the menu.
Where can I get-- and which is the right kind of lye for pretzel making? [moved from Boston]
There are Filipino recipes that incorporate lye (called 'lihia' in Tagalog), e.g. in sticky rice in banana leaves. Lihia (potassium hydroxide in solution) may be available from an Asian grocery: they will be in clear bottles, and the dead giveaway is the presence of precipitated KOH outside the bottle. The problem is that I have no idea what their concentration is.
Here's the MSDS sheet for KOH. Getting them on your skin can cause some burns, as I found out from a chemistry lab mishap some time back.
http://avogadro.chem.iastate.edu/MSDS/KOH.htm
OTOH, I've had success with dipping the soft pretzel dough in boiling baking soda solution.
Celebratory Chocolate Challenge - chocolate desserts for the holiday table?
Oops, forgot to include this bread pudding:
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Pain-au-Chocolat-Bread-Pudding-with-Cranberries-and-Chocolate-Sauce-14574
I didn't like cranberries as dessert, so I made mine with raspberries. It was great and simple to make.
Vegetarian baked pasta dish
Baked gnocchi with a cream sauce of some type, and cheese on top?
Celebratory Chocolate Challenge - chocolate desserts for the holiday table?
Chocolate hazelnut linzertorte?
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Chocolate-Linzertorte-10972
I've made this before and while the chocolate is apparent, it's not overwhelmingly so. It's not really the traditional linzertorte though because of the chocolate and the use of hazelnuts instead of almonds.
How about pithivier doctored with chocolate?
ISO dulce de leche
Arlington, Lexington, Burlington, Billerica, Wilmington, Woburn and Bedford are all convenient to me. Cambridge is close by but I can't parallel park so I have ruled out that and Somerville.
ISO dulce de leche
Thanks for the update, I think I'll try Market Basket then. That will give me an excuse to visit the new Burlington MB.
Homemade dulche de leche [split from Boston]
Thanks to all the suggestions. I think I picked up my last can of dulce de leche from a Latin American grocery in Somerville, but it was pretty far from my house. I'm afraid to boil a can myself because I may forget to check the water level. Is the home-made dulce de leche just as good as the commercial one? Cajeta would be perfect actually, I like the slight tang from the goat's milk.
@Dulce de leche...I love your handle.
ISO dulce de leche
Is it available in any of the popular area grocery stores? I've looked at Shaw's, Stop n'Shop, TJ and WF but did not find any.
Your favorite brand of chocolate
If Valrhona, El Rey and Callebaut are out of the equation, I'd personally go with Lindt Excellence 70%. Ghirardelli's white chocolate is pretty good. Lindt's white chocolate is funny-tasting to me for some reason.
Somewhat off-topic, I read rave reviews about Amedei so I saved up (really) for a sampler (Chuao, Porcelana and 9.) I thought there was possibly no way any chocolate could live up to the hype and price. Boy was I wrong. Chuao really is food of the gods.
ideas for puff pastry shells or fillo cups?
I loved the puff pastry samosa that my Indian friend from grad school used to make. Because puff pastry turnovers tend to burst at the seams, she just fills the puff pastry cups with the aloo masala filling. Not as crispy as the original samosas but still very yummy.
Anybody shipped baklava as a gift?
Thanks for the excellent suggestions and info. I'll use the muffin liners as individual containers, then put everything inside a freezer bag (so as not to soggify :) the lot) which will then go inside a cookie tin.
Just FYI, I'll try
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Middle-Eastern-Nut-Filled-Multilayered-Pastry-Baklava-103991
unless you can tempt me to use a superior recipe.
Anybody shipped baklava as a gift?
I'm thinking of mailing someone baklava, but don't know how to ship properly. I want to make sure that 1) the moisture doesn't seep out (use wax paper?); 2) mold doesn't grow; 3) baklava remains moist and 4) no spoilage. Will the amount of sugar be enough to act as preservative and mold-inhibitor? Thanks.
In search of Calamansi
Hongkong Market (formerly Super 88) in Malden and HMart in Burlington carry calamansi juice in the little packets that gimlis1mum mentioned.
ISO garland chrysanthemum
Thanks for the tips! I'll try to brave the crowds in H-Mart then.
ISO garland chrysanthemum
I'm looking for edible chrysanthemum to use in stir fries. I think it's also called tong-ho in Chinese and shinguku in Japanese. Has anybody seen this in Boston area Asian groceries?
Valrhona chocolate: sold at retail? Where?
Trader Joe's and Williams-Sonoma have them in bar form. Most of the Whole Foods I've been to in both TX and MA sell chunks chipped off from the large bakers' blocks. Neither TJ nor WF (at least none of the ones I've been to) sell Valrhona in callets (discs).
I think TJ and WS also sell Valrhona cocoa.
My favorite form of Valrhona is the bakers' discs for ease of portioning. If you don't mind buying online, both World of Chocolate and Chocosphere carry Valrhona as well as other brands people associate with high-quality chocolate (Callebaut, Michel Cluizel, Pralus, Scharffen Berger, etc.)
ISO dried pozole
Thanks all. I'll look for a Latin grocers close to me. I've been to one in Somerville (can't remember the name) but they didn't carry it. The Super 88/HK Grocery in Malden doesn't have it either.
