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Miso Sriracha Caramels
March 12, 2014
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Use a large glass bowl that is large enough to accommodate all ingredients and still allow for mixture to expand, as it will boil up quite a bit during the cooking process. Mix together dry ingredients in glass bowl.  Add corn syrup, sweetened condensed milk and Sriracha and stir to combine. Add butter. Microwave on…

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A Chef’s Secret Weapon: Fish Sauce
March 3, 2014
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When a recipe needs some “seasoning, umami, flavor”, what’s near your cooktop? Salt, soy sauce?  Maybe, but If you’re a trendsetting American chef, you reach for the fish sauce. Whether called nuoc man -Vietnamese for fish sauce- or nam pla (Thai translation), fish sauce is extracted from salted and fermented fish (think anchovies) and has…

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