Tip 14: Upgrade your sauce by sneaking spinach into it!
5 Easy Mixologist Cocktail Tricks
Don’t chill your drink with any ordinary ice cubes, amp up your drink and make juice cubes!
EVO-OOOohhh
EVOO isn’t just for the kitchen, these soaps use olive oil’s moisturizers and antioxidants to work skin magic.
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1. Alighiero Campostrini Fruttato, $8.50, bigelowchemists.com 2. Soap Cartel Naked Truth, $9, soapcartel.com 3. Volta Organics ginger and grapefruit, $6, voltasoap.com 4. Kiss My Face olive oil and green tea, $3, kissmyface.com 5. Olivia Care moisturizing olive oil, $7.50, oliviacare.com 6. Lather lavender- lime, $8, lather.com
—Kara M. Murphy
From our September 2012 Italian Issue of Every Day with Rachael Ray
Cool Cooking Tip: How to Blanch
Blanching is a quick cooking technique that came tame sourness and soften texture. I like to use this technique for veggies like asparagus, snap peas and green beans, to only cook them just a bit.
The technique: Boil vegetables or fruit in rapidly boiling water for a minute or two until they’re cooked but still tender, then scoop them out and dunk them in ice water to stop the cooking.
Try it out on the Lemon Wheel & Ricotta Pizza (above)!
—Katie Barreira, Senior Test Kitchen Associate
