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Home Cooking Digest Weekly highlights from the most interesting Chowhound posts on the Home Cooking board, including recipes, cooking techniques, seasonal ingredients, DIY cocktails, and more.
Favorite Ways with Sage
Sage is a versatile herb that’s good with much more than just Thanksgiving turkey and stuffing. Here are some of Chowhounds’ favorite ways to cook with it:
• Butternut squash ravioli or gnocchi with Sage Brown Butter Sauce
• Pizza topped with sage, caramelized onions, and fontina cheese
• White beans simmered with tomatoes, garlic, and sage, eaten with crusty bread or over pasta; or white beans, caramelized onions, and sage
• Roasted chicken with sage leaves stuffed under the skin and in the cavity
Fried sage leaves are delicious, and make a great garnish for pork, pan-fried fish, or roasted vegetables. You can deep- fry them, or simply crisp them in a little olive oil. For great snacking, try Fried Chickpeas with Sage.
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For Perfect Enchiladas, Treat Your Tortillas Right
Briefly frying tortillas in oil before rolling them is key to making great enchiladas, say Chowhounds. The oil brings out the corn flavor of the tortillas and keeps them from absorbing too much sauce and becoming mushy, improving the enchiladas’ texture. As an alternative to frying in a quantity of oil, you can brush the tortillas with oil and toast them on each side in a skillet, or heat them on a baking sheet in the oven.
Hone your technique by making CHOW’s Cheesy Enchiladas or Crispy Turkey Enchiladas
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How to Cook Boneless Turkey Breast
Boneless, skinless turkey breast is so lean it dries out unless you cook it carefully. Instead of cooking it whole, you can slice it into cutlets to sauté; cut it into strips and cook quickly for fajitas, salads, or sandwiches; or grind it with apple, onion, and seasonings to make sausage patties.
Marinating overnight adds flavor and helps keep the turkey moist. Kater makes a marinade of juice, lime zest, olive oil, tequila, garlic, cilantro, red onion, chipotle chile, cumin, salt, pepper, and the juice of an orange, then grills the breast. valerie mixes 1/2 cup each warmed honey and low-sodium soy sauce with some ginger and garlic, pours that over the turkey to marinate overnight, then roasts at 375°F for about 45 minutes.
Boneless turkey breasts are also good butterflied, stuffed, and rolled; you can drape it with bacon to keep it moist and then bake or braise. The meat’s also a good candidate for the slow cooker, or you can go to the other extreme by making Spicy Turkey Jerky.
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Ethereal Gnocchi, Rich Sauce
Great gnocchi are ethereally light, but these airy pillows are at their most delicious when napped with earthy or rich sauces. Brown butter and sage is classic; try sautéing breadcrumbs and gnocchi in butter and finishing with a sprinkle of Parmesan, or pairing sage with olive oil, a squeeze of lemon juice, and pecorino. Meyer lemon gnocchi, with lemon in the gnocchi themselves and in the accompanying butter sauce, is the go-to recipe for a couple of hounds.
Others like a tomato cream sauce, Gorgonzola and walnuts, or duxelles with pancetta or prosciutto. As an alternative to potato gnocchi, some are fans of ricotta gnocchi. For a very special dish, try truffled gnocchi with peas and chanterelles, which capeanne calls “truly addictive.”
Also check out CHOW’s Chestnut Gnocchi with Robiola Cheese Sauce.
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Desserts Perfumed with Rose
Rose water is a traditional component of many Persian sweets, but Chowhounds like to use it in a variety of desserts. gourmet wife says a touch of rose water brings out the flavor of berries; she also adds a bit to tea and drinks it hot or iced.
Others use it in baking. Try pistachio cake with chilled rose syrup or Persian Love Cake, which has rose water in the frosting. farmersdaughter adds rose water to meringues before baking, then serves them with berries and cream whipped with some more rose water. And TimCarroll says many baklava recipes include it in the filling and syrup.
Rose water works with creamy desserts, too. Infomaniac says rice and rose water pudding is “a very simple and rich dessert.” Rose water, saffron, and pistachios flavor a classic Persian ice cream; you can make a shortcut version, or make it from scratch.
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Pasta That Tastes Like Spring
Chowhounds have flipped for penne with asparagus, sage, and peas, which is full of bright, springlike flavor. kattyeyes added about a quarter pound of pancetta and left out the butter, while maisonbistro added lemon zest.
kattyeyes has also enjoyed angel hair pasta with crab and country ham recently.
For more spring flavor, check out CHOW’s Cooking with Spring Ingredients. For more on pasta and what it pairs well with, see CHOW’s When Pasta Met Sauce.
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