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First Aired - 09/07/2010 12:00PM
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This week on Cooking Issues Dave and Nastassia take a caller's query on making chocolate at home, and delve into the world of "chocolate alchemy" with a crash course on the melanger--the heavy machinery of the chocolate world. Dave also addresses at-home carbonation techniques, including a double-shot technique for the heavy bubble purists. Finally Dave drops science with a quick shaken vs stirred breakdown that would make James Bond blush. This episode was sponsored by The Barterhouse.
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Cooking Issues Introduction: All About Chocolate (17:18)
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Cooking Issues, Dave Arnold, The Barterhouse, Bouza, Tannat, health benefits of red wine, Heritage Radio Network, Nastassia Lopez, cardiovascular benefits to drinking alcohol, low sugar meringues, high intensity sweetener mixed with a bulking agent, what's a good recipe for kale?, farmers market, Dave doesn't like it raw, it's good when overcooked, kale with pine nuts and raisins, advice for making chocolate at home?, www.chocolatealchemy.com, cocoa butter, chocolate melanger, grind until the particle size is right, grind with the lid off for a little while, small batch chocolates, Mast Brothers chocolate, selecting beans, the final product of chocolate is very finicky, it's well worth investigation and study,Limoncello & Meat Velveting Techniques (14:17)
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email questions, limoncello, lemon peel or zest in alcohol, if you add sugar when its hot it will get cloudy, the reason liquor turns cloudy is that there are soluble oils in alcohol but when diluted those oils are no longer soluble, sugar syrup, General Tso's chicken, velveting technique for cooking meat, velveting is a procedure where you marinate small chunks of meat in egg white and corn starch, produces a tender result, egg white coating, alkaline, bicarbonate solutions, tenderazation, alkaline browns faster, baking soda and ground meat, browns faster, this subject hasn't been adequately studied,Frozen Slushies, More On Drink Dilution & Cocktail Carbonation (19:06)
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there will be no live show next week!, Dave will be teaching sous vide cooking, email question:, making frozen slushies with a soda siphon, mohitos, super freezing, shaken drinks are more diluted than you think, shaken and stirred drinks are different, stirred drinks are less diluted than shaken drinks, shaken drinks are airated more, dilute your drink first then put it in the shaker, Audrey Saunders, mixology, liquor, alcohol, mixed drinks, cocktails, caller question about carbonating cocktails, air is the enemy of carbonation, Dave likes to carbonate gin drinks, you should fine tune the amount of Co2 put into a drink, one tank of Co2 will do 200-400 gallons of drink, Co2 is more soluable in alcohol than water, you need to add more Co2 than you should in water,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 07/15/2010 03:30PM
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This week on Catch It, Cook It, & Eat It!, Ben takes us on an educational, hands on, real time journey into the world of chowder. Ben makes whole batch of fresh chowder from scratch in real time inside HRN studios, taking listeners though each step and giving tips and hints along the way. He also goes into some fun historical chowder facts, like why meat is a mainstay in most chowders, the origin of the New England vs Manhattan chowder, and why we live in perhaps the most ideal "chowder time" in history. This episode was sponsored by Whole Foods.
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Catch It, Cook It & Eat It Introduction: Cookin' Chowder (15:00)
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Catch It, Cook It & Eat It, Ben Sargent, Whole Foods Market, Heritage Radio Network, Ben taught a class at The Meat Hook yesterday, leftover chowder ingredients in the studio, induction ovens, New England Clam Chowder, Ben usually has guests cook, salt pork over bacon, hard shelled clams, common in the New England area, Ben was clamming in Cape Cod this weekend, somebody has been poaching his family clam bed, you know the clams are done when they open their faces, minced garlic, Meat Hook, whole pig cooking, knife skills classes, you don't have to measure carefully in chowder making, milk curdles very fast, use good butter!, New England vs Manhattan, try to keep an even temperature, clam broth is really potent, East Coast seafood is very fishy, advanced oyster swallowers, added sugar to the chowder,New England Clam Chowdah (15:00)
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have some tongs ready to pull the clams out, if the clams have opened you want to take them out and cut the meat, clams were currency with the Native Americans, sailors didn't have potatos or cream in their chowder, we live in a great chowder town, corn and shrimp chowder, corn and lobster chowder, leeks, endives and fennel, if you overcook the chowder you will destroy the clams, make sure your potatoes are soft!, use the side of your spoon and mash the potato against the edge of your pot, there is a lobster roll craze in New York City, wuss seafood eaters, true seafood lovers just eat lobsters!, after a good boil add the clams, white wine is essential, use 4 tablespoons of butter, add some dill, dill doesn't improve with time,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 01/24/2010 03:30PM
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Feeling down? Listen to this week's episode of We Dig Plants to discover how indoor plants can change your mood during the dreary months of winter.
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We Dig Plants Introduction: Indoor Plants (8:26)
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We Dig Plants, Carmen Devito, Alice Marcus Krieg, Roberta's, Heritage Radio Network, Jack Inslee, Whole Foods Market, Groundworks, bringing the culture to horticulture, tropical plants for the winter escape, outdoor gardens are put to bed in the winter, indoor plants, humidity, house plants, do plants increase oxygen in the air?, do plants absorb dust in the air?, do plants act as humidifiers?, do plants improve our psychological well being, plant exploration, enclosed bay windows, jasmine, fuchsia, ferns, Victorians,Know Your Plants: Watering Technique, Re-Potting & Other Tips (8:40)
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broad guidelines for house plants, maintenance, get to know your plant, learn its name, observe it, touch it, connect with the plant, adapt your watering technique, deep watering less frequent, potting, re pot in the spring or right before the period of active growth, never re pot a plant in bloom, fertilizers leave salt crust, it's important to use clean pots, add drainage hole,Orchards, Philodendron, Air Plants, African Violets, Shamrocks & Ferns! (15:14)
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All About Houseplants, the lowland rain forest, orchards, what do you with it when it starts to look awful, they need moist air and a lot of humidity, water them every two weeks, fertilize with liquid fertilizing in late October, add pebbles to a tray for humidity, foliage plant, heart shaped leaf, filadendron, they can be neglected, they love shady conditions, liquid organic fertilizer, air plants, they don't need soil, epiphyte, air circulation, shower, African violets, your grandmothers plant, they are not violets, Shamrocks, clover, Nathanial Clogan, often found in rock gardens, Victorian England, witchdoctor, untamed look, geraniums, citrus, they are not ideally suited as houseplants, ferns, the Boston fern, Florida, Jamaican plant hunter found it,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
