The original Roman gourmet Apicius got straight to the heart of the pleasure we derive from food when he said, "We eat first with our eyes" back in the first century A.D. A tremendous portion of food ...

Blanching simply means to quickly boil foods (typically vegetables, fruits, or nuts) without fully cooking them. The blanched foods are then placed in a bowl of ice water for shocking (another cooking ...

This quick and easy classic French cooking method preserves the color, texture, and flavor of fresh vegetables. For spring and summer vegetables that taste like the best versions of themselves, any ...

Some of my vegetables blanched at what I did to them. Not from embarrassment, but from lack of light. To make a vegetable more tender and less bitter, consider blanching it. Plants blanch when they ...

Preparing vegetables can sometimes be the most time-consuming part of getting dinner together, but blanching them helps move things along. Blanching means boiling the vegetables for a very short time ...