Cooking

Cooking

The process of preparing food, usually with heat.

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The skin of this dried chile is shiny-smooth and a deep, burnished red. The chile is very tough and must be soaked longer than most dried chiles. The flavorful guajillo is pointed, long and narrow ...

achiote seed

Culinary arts; Cooking

The slightly musky-flavored seed of the annatto tree is available whole or ground in East Indian, Spanish and Latin American markets. Buy whole seeds when they're a rusty red color; brown seeds are ...

bacalao

Culinary arts; Cooking

The Spanish term for dried salt cod. See also saltfish.

albóndiga

Culinary arts; Cooking

The Spanish word for "meatball. " Albóndigas is the name of a popular Mexican and Spanish dish of spicy meatballs, usually in a tomato sauce. Sopa de albóndigas is a beef-broth soup with meatballs ...

ensalada

Culinary arts; Cooking

The Spanish word for "salad. "

aguacate

Culinary arts; Cooking

The Spanish word for avocado.

citrus zester

Culinary arts; Cooking

The stainless-steel cutting edge of this kitchen tool has five tiny cutting holes which, when the zester is pulled across the surface of a lemon or orange, create threadlike strips of peel. The ...