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What is tamarind?

While checking out a recipe I came across a seasoning I was not familiar with, tamarind. What is it and what seasoning does it provide? What can I say, I'm a...

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What are capers & how do you use them?

Can you please tell me what exactly capers are and their use, other than in salads (if there is another use)? I use them in salads, but don't know why.

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A special potato salad recipe

I'm desperately searching for a recipe for potato salad. The recipe calls for red potatoes and a number of vegetables to surround the salad on a bed of romai...

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What is passata?

I saw a recipe for Corsican Beef Stew that calls for 2 Tbsp of passata. What is passata?

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How to make and can salsa

I have so many tomatoes and peppers and onions I don't know what to do with them all. I would like to can some tomatoes but I would also like to can some dif...

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Roasting garlic

How do I roast garlic cloves and what spices should I use?

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What is a Hubbard squash?

Have you heard of a squash called blue squash? This squash is a pale gray/blue in color, and picked from the garden in British Columbia, Canada yesterday aft...

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Tomato-less lasagne & casseroles

As any type of tomato or cream sauce upsets my stomach, I am trying to locate a recipe for "lasagne" or a "lasagne-type" casserole without using cream or tom...

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Italian cauliflower flan

Last Friday night I had the pleasure of dinning in a small restaurant in the cellar of a very old building in a hilltop village a little south of Turin in It...

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Main-course recipes without tomatoes

A lot of recipes for main courses contain tomatoes. I have a serious allergy to tomatoes. What can I use in place of tomatoes so as not to limit my family’s ...

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How to cook amber cup squash

I have eight different kinds of squash in my garden. One is called amber cup. I have been to several Web sites looking for any recipe to use to cook this squ...

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Iced Mango Soup Spiced with Ginger

On a cruise on the Carnival Victory, I had a soup called "Iced Mango Soup Spiced with Ginger." I have been trying to find this recipe everywhere. Can you hel...

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