Cooking

Cooking

The process of preparing food, usually with heat.

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Empanar is Spanish for "to bake in pastry," and these Mexican and Spanish specialties are usually single-serving turnovers with a pastry crust and savoury meat-and-vegetable filling. They can also ...

Greens

Culinary arts; Cooking

Edible leaves of certain plants such as the beet, collard, dandelion and turnip. Greens are usually steamed or quickly cooked in some other manner. See also amaranth; broccoli raab; callaloo; ...

Gorp

Culinary arts; Cooking

Eaten as a snack, this dry mixture consists of a combination of foods, usually nuts, seeds, raisins or other dried fruit and oats. It's particularly favoured by hikers and campers as an energy ...

Egg wash

Culinary arts; Cooking

Egg yolk or egg white mixed with a small amount of water or milk. It's brushed over breads, pastry and other baked goods before baking to give them colour and gloss.

Coral

Culinary arts; Cooking

Eaten plain or used in a sauce or compound butter, coral is simply the roe (eggs) of a crustacean such as lobster or scallop. When cooked, it turns a beautiful coral-red color.