Monday, September 26, 2005

Monday's Food Tip: Look For This Handy Guide!

If you like cookbooks and magazines about food, you’ll love this new publication from the editors of FINE COOKING magazine. It’s their first-ever annual guide "dedicated 100% to choosing and using the best tools, ingredients, and appliances for your kitchen. Insightful tasting panels, reviews you can trust, helpful photos, and editors’ picks will give you the inside track on the best olive oil, the most essential pots and pans, upgrading your utensil drawer..."

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This handy guide will show you –

how to choose olive oil

the essentials for stocking your pantry and frig

how to make over your spice rack

the best mini-tools and hand tools for the kitchen

and much, much more.


You can even read about interesting foods and ingredients you probably don’t stock in your kitchen right now. Exotic items like, Pashmak – Persian Fairy Floss –which is used as a topping for ice cream, cupcakes, or served with afternoon tea.

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If you live in Australia, you can order Persian Fairy Floss in several different flavors here. The rest of us can read what other cooks have to say about Persian Fairy Floss, or check out this interesting recipe for Rose and Turkish delight Ice cream with Persian floss.

FINE COOKING’S GREAT FINDS 2006, is available at Border’s and other local bookstores, or you can order it online.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Pariya Food has a branch in the U.S. We are based in New York, and will deliver any orders placed on our online store, to your street address in North America. Local shipping rates apply.
Pashmak or persian fairy floss (hand-made cotton candy) is available in five natural flavours: chocolate, pistachio, saffron, rose and, vanilla.
www.pariya.com
http://orders.pariyafood.com/
Enjoy!

Acland Brierty said...

I spent a day making this with some old ladies in Ayuddhya Thailand (it's called sai mai in thai which translates as silken threads)... I haven't had a chance to try making it at home but it is easy to do and gets hard on the arms as you progress. It's unique in the fact that you actually use a deep fried flour mix (flour boiled in oil is probably more accurate) to stop the strands sticking together as you work the sugar toffee... and it's in this mix that you can add colouring and flavours too.

I've seen a video of a Korean version of this and will try to find the link so you can all see how to make this sort of fairy floss

Anonymous said...

I have searched the web for a Sai Mai recipe similar to Acland Brierty's "Ayuddhya Thailand sai mai-- in thai which translates as silken threads)"...to no avail. If any one (help! Acland) has this recipe and the Korean video link please send it to me or publish it on this forum.
pam@pamsbali.com