Odds are the majority of you (excluding the Canadians and readers from a handful of other countries) had cranberry sauce a few days ago at Thanksgiving. Cranberry sauce has gained a poor reputation due to the unappealing can-shaped jelly version (you know, the kind you can slice – doesn’t seem natural!). It’s actually surprisingly easy [...]

Sorghum is a genus of many types of grasses which are native to continents all over the world. The kind of sorghum featured here is used for food (both the grain and the syrup from the plant, which is called sorghum molasses), liquors, animal feed and even biofuel. It is one of the five top [...]

Pomegranates can be found in many grocery stores this time of year (unless you’re in the Southern Hemisphere, where they’re in season from March to May). They grow on trees or shrubs native to the Mediterranean, although they are now grown all over the world since being introduced to Latin American and California by Spanish [...]

Rambutan (pronounced ram-BYU-tn) is a funny looking red and hairy little fruit. I was only able to find it canned, so it came without it’s hairy shell, but you can see it in the can that is in the background of the picture below. Inside the shell, you will find small translucent white fruits, which [...]

Happy Halloween! This week’s ingredient isn’t exactly creepy or orange, but if you’re in the holiday spirit, I found some recipes for you; here’s one for homemade candy corn, cupcake & crepe ghosts, mummy cookie pops, Halloween sugar cookies and glow in the dark drinks (did you know that tonic water glows under blacklight?). Back to our regularly [...]