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- From menu design to planning your next menu special. These articles provide culinary lessons as well as a recipe ideas. We share menu ideas for your food truck, restaurant or catering business.
- Menu Design Articles
- Gourmet Glossary: U
- Gourmet Glossary: V
- Gourmet Glossary: W
- Gourmet Glossary: X
- Gourmet Glossary: Y
- Gourmet Glossary: Z
- Avoid Cold Pan Syndrome
- Cookie Fun Facts
- Recipe: Peppermint Bark Shortbread Cookies
- Peppermint Fun Facts
- Join our Free Food Business Community: Weekly Case Studies
Menu Design Articles
Gourmet Glossary: U
Ugli Fruit: A hybrid of grapefruit, orange and tangerine. Umami: Fifth element of taste. Umami is the Japanese word for “delicious” or “savory” but is regarded as broth-like or meaty tasting in Western cultures. The umami taste is most common in Asian foods, soups and[...]
Gourmet Glossary: V
Vanilla Pod: The fragrant dried pods of the vanilla orchid, used as a flavoring. Veal Oscar: Classic Swedish dish. Traditional preparation for Veal Oscar has veal medallions topped with crabmeat and asparagus and a little béarnaise sauce. Vegemite: One of several yeast extract spreads sold in[...]
Gourmet Glossary: W
Waldorf Salad: Also called Waldorf Astoria Salad. A classic American fruit salad that usually consists of apples, lemon juice, celery, walnuts, and mayonnaise. Walnut: A rain shaped nut, used in sweet and savory dishes. Walnut Oil: An expensive and strongly flavored (nutty) oil, which is popular in Middle[...]
Gourmet Glossary: X
XXX, XXXX, 10X: An indicator on a box of confectioners' sugar of how many times it has been ground. The higher the number of X's the finer the grind. Xavier: A soup or consomme thickened with arrowroot or rice flour. A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z Know any good ones we missed? E-mail them[...]
Gourmet Glossary: Y
Yam: The round or elongated edible tuber with a number of varieties. Yeast: A raising agent. Yeast is a fungus (saccharomyces cerevisae) which ferments sugars to produce carbon dioxide, which leavens flour mixtures. Yogurt, Yoghurt: Dairy product made from milk curdled with bacteria. Recipes that most often call[...]
Gourmet Glossary: Z
Zander: A large fresh-water fish with firm flesh. Zinfandel wine: A red wine grape that seemed to be indigenous to California for many years. It is now thought to have originated in Italy. The best Zinfandels are from Northern California and were grown for decades by Italian[...]
Avoid Cold Pan Syndrome
If you’re roasting a chicken, preheating the oven is a no-brainer. It’s usually the first step listed in a recipe and cooks of all skill levels seem to grasp the fact that a hot oven is required to cook the food. Unfortunately, the cold pan[...]
Cookie Fun Facts
The internet is full of fabulous facts about everything from current events to the history of basket weaving and cookie fun facts. As we research for our daily content on food trucks, food carts and street food, we stumble upon some items of knowledge that[...]
Recipe: Peppermint Bark Shortbread Cookies
With only a week left in the voting for the 2012 Dessert and Dessert Food Truck of the Year, we felt we would tie this contest together with National Peppermint Latte Day. Although this is not a coffee drink, it certainly uses peppermint. If you[...]
Peppermint Fun Facts
The internet is full of fabulous facts about everything from current events to the history basket weaving and peppermint fun facts. Because of this, as we research for our daily content on food trucks, food carts and street food, we stumble upon some items of knowledge[...]