Coconut Milk, Truffle Salt, D'Arbo Syrups - chefshop.com/enews
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Coconut Milk
Truffle Salt
Elderflower Syrup
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Recipes of the Week
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cannoli!
Ricotta Cheese. A pastry shell. Topped with anything fun, like chocolate chips, pistachios and dusted with light. White, powdered sugar, to inhale when you take your first bite!
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 Coconut Milk
We tasted and tasted today, but this story started three years ago. We needed coconut milk to use in a recipe for a dish that we ate in Hawaii. At the same time, we were looking into the health benefits of the coconut. What we found was not so interesting; the coconut milks we tested were full of non-coconut ingredients, and had less than appealing tastes.
Francine P. on FaceBook says, "The only really good coconut milk takes elbow grease and a coconut shredder. Split the brown nuts and grate the meat, squeeze out the milk, and use it for cooking. You just cannot can heaven."
That is a true statement for so many things. However, if you are short a coconut and want to make a good Thai dish, then you need to use the next best thing; coconut milk in a can.
The first thing you need to know is that Coconut Milk doesn't look like milk. A misnomer at best. It's more like a glop of white stuff. Second, it doesn't always taste much like coconut. Two of the samples both looked and tasted more like crisco; a pure white and almost flavorless paste and, once mixed up, the texture didn't change at all. Four of the samples we tasted had guar gum added as a thickener; the one "light" version did look more like milk, but had no taste. After a spoonful, they all produced the same exclamation from the crew, "Yukk!!"
The one that we liked best, and which will do what we need it to do, was not like the others; it was made of 82% coconut kernel and 18% water . None of the others told us how much coconut is actually inside the can. The taste and consistency brought back a food memory from childhood that I can't quite remember. Not weirdly smooth and a real coconut flavor. Actually felt like we were eating something real.
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A plus 10% Truffle content!
Etruria's USDA and Italian certified organic Truffle oils have been with us for a long time, but finding a well-made truffle salt has been a chore. After constant and continuous disappointment, we pretty much had resigned ourselves to watching others sell truffle salt, many with little real truffle, and lots of truffle essence. The essence, Bis-(Methylthio)methane, gives out a wonderful truffle smell, but the taste and the finish leaves an un-natural and un-palatable aftertaste.
This salt has 10% real black truffle. We taste tested it and concluded that it's good; A strong truffle flavor with a clean finish.
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Sweet Elderflower Syrup
Just featured on Martha Stewart's show, this Elderflower Syrup Elderflower Syrup is a wonderful compliment to mixed drinks, as well as a delicious addition to many recipes. In addition to Elderflower, we carry two other flavors of D'arbo sweet syrups; Black Currant and Sour Cherry. Like vinegars, you can't have too many of these sweet elixirs in your kitchen!
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News & Updates
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The winner of the AllClad giveaway has been selected and we are contacting them now! Once we do, we will announce the winner here. Look for our next contest and enter to win 4 kilos of Chocolate! (That's 8.8 pounds!)
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Black Currant Fruit
Lightly sweet, thickly syrupy, delicious. Not too sweet, so the flavor and tang of the black currents still shines through. Perfect as a dessert topping, or in your bar pantry.
In 1970, the family company went under Klaus Darbo, the third generation. Klaus Darbo followed the company tradition and resolutely continued the strategy of manufacturing products of superior quality. Darbo's capacity for innovation was one of the key factors in the company's success. In 1994, Darbo launched its premium quality fruit syrups line - and we are glad they did.
D'arbo fruit syrups are made from highly concentrated fruit juices for dilution with water. Over 80% fruit juice content from selected varieties for a unique taste experience. No chemical preservatives or colorings are used in the production.
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