Their efforts fit neatly into several culinary trends: working with traditional agricultural products, and embracing the once-rejected byproducts and odd bits of favored ingredients.
You either make a batter — usually with a little egg and baking powder in it for leavening — and mix in bits of the ingredient you're stretching, or you dip those ingredients into the batter just before frying.
All of these industries have reduced animals to tools for production, and bits and parts of ingredients.
I know, again, that some will post their protest, and I understand the desire to eliminate every last bit of animal ingredients from one's diet, but let's face it: Even vegan foods cause some animals to be tilled up in processing.
And being a bit of an ingredient nerd, I love that it has galangal, related to the ginger family and a natural sunscreen.
Finally, you deglaze the remaining bits of all of those ingredients with red wine before simmering the chicken in the mixture and finishing with a little butter.
When I hosted a brunch for ten adults and six children, I baked two dozen of Slater's cheese, ham, and apple muffins, which call for a delicate proportion of savory to sweet and which were designed to use up the last bits of a few exceptional ingredients in Slater's refrigerator.
You will note that on paper, each list of ingredients looks just a bit much.
9. APPRECIATION of SCIENCE AND NATURE: I've covered the appreciation and respect of ingredients, and this is a bit of an extension of all that.
If you want to add a complementary ingredient, sprinkle bits of tangy goat cheese over the cooked stalks, as chefs in the Loire Valley of France do.
