Editorial ChefBéchamel sauce also known as the white sauce is a sauce that is made from a white roux and milk. The sauce gets its English name from its distinctive white color. The French naming is …
A Quick Overview of Hollandaise Sauce
Hollandaise sauce is one of the five French haute cuisine mother sauces. The others include Béchamel Sauce, Espagnole Sauce, Velouté Sauce, and Tomate Sauce. Hollandaise is considered a mayonnaise sauce as it is based on the emulsion of oil …
Meet the Clove, the Aromatic Spice of the Sultans
The clove tree is a tree that can grow up to about 8 to 12 meters tall. It bears broad leaves and a flower bud that starts out pale and gradually turns green then red …
A Quick Look at the Tomato Vegetable
The tomato is an edible savory fruit usually eaten as a vegetable. It is usually red in color when ripe and can be eaten raw or cooked. The name is derived from the Spanish “tomate”. The fruit berries …
A Delightful Culinary Experience With Garlic
Garlic is a root herb closely related to the onion, shallot, leek, chive, and rakkyo. It is native to central Asia and is very common in the Mediterranean region, Africa, and Europe as well. In culinary contexts, it is …
Sage, Another Essential Herb for Your Kitchen
Sage, also known as garden sage, or common sage is an aromatic, perennial, evergreen shrub. It is cultivated for its aromatic grayish-green leaves. It comes with purplish to blue flowers, has a woody, branching stems, …
Know Your Celery and Find out if it’s a Herb or Veggie
Celery is a strongly flavored plant that has been cultivated and eaten as a vegetable for centuries. This highly aromatic plant blurs the lines between the distinctions of what a vegetable, herb, and spice are. It is a small …
A Brief Overview of the Facts on Basil Herb
The word Basil is derived from Greek, meaning “King”. That’s where it gets its designations as “King of the herbs” or the “Royal herb”. In some cultures, it is known as the “Holy Herb”. It …
Onions, the Culinary Delight as a Food Source
Onions are vegetables that also go by the name of bulb onions or common onions. It is a small perennial herb plant that grows to about two feet tall. It takes about three to four months from …
A Quick Understanding of Spices and Their Culinary Uses
Spices can be described as fruits, seeds, roots, barks, buds, or other parts of a plant that are primarily used for flavoring, preserving food, and coloring. A Spice can be distinguished from a herb in that herbs are …