The first thing we need to know about the difference between beans and legumes is that a bean is a legume; a legume is not necessarily a bean.
Tag: food
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Food history: caviar
Considered a delicacy around the world, let’s investigate the history of caviar.
As with ketchup and coffee, there is an entire book on the history of caviar; we’ll cover what we can here.
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Difference between: beets and turnips
We’re getting into root vegetable season – how about the difference between beets and turnips?
In addition, we’ll also be taking a quick look at their fully edible greens, and the difference between them as well.
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Spinach salad
This would be an excellent brunch salad.
Thank you, The Rookie Cook Cookbook.
Ingredients:
- 8 oz spinach, stems removed, cut up
- 4 bacon slices, cooked and crumbled
- 3 hard boiled eggs, finely diced
- 1 1/2 tbsp ketchup
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 2 tbsp white wine vinegar
- 3/4 tsp lemon juice
- 3/4 tbsp cooking oil
- 1/4 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- pinch onion powder
- pinch cayenne pepper
- pinch salt
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Food history: ranch dressing
Is Hidden Valley the original ranch dressing? (Spoiler alert: it is.)
Today we are checking out the history of the most popular salad dressing – by far – in this country: ranch dressing.
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Difference between: buttercup and butternut squash
They look completely different on the outside, but have a very similar creamy orange flesh inside.
To add confusion, winter squash is often grouped together as one food item, nutritionally and otherwise. And, winter squashes can often be substituted for one another in dishes.
So then, what is the difference between buttercup squash and butternut squash? Let’s find out.
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Food history: Bananas Foster
This food history is almost embarrassingly short and sweet.
Most of the time with Food History posts, it is difficult to decipher the background of a dish, because many meals simply evolve and grow over time. Or, the food item can be traced so far back the precise origin is unclear.
Then there are the biggies like coffee and ketchup, where the history is so expansive it’s impossible to cover it all in one blog post.
But with Bananas Foster, we’ve got the exact, undisputed, quick history right here.
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Difference between: apple cider and apple juice
As promised, here is one more apple post for the year – and a thank you to a miss Jennifer Cole for suggesting it: the difference between apple cider and apple juice.
We’ve already explored the history of apple cider – let’s find out how it differs from its more readily available counterpart.
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Difference between: Honeycrisp and Fuji
Honeycrisp and Fuji apples both have higher amounts of sugar in them than other apples, making them intensely sweet. The sweetness in conjunction with that perfect, crisp crunch makes for one darn good eating apple.
Let’s check out the difference betweeen Honeycrisp and Fuji, and if they’re good baking apples as well.
We’re also going to examine why Honeycrisp apples are so darn pricey.
