Makes about 5 cups, or enough to fill and ice an 8- or 9-inch cake
Diabetes-Friendly Cooking
At CIA Foodies and our members’ page DISH, we embrace healthy cooking for healthy lives, whatever that may mean for you. With recipes, technique posts, and instructive videos, you’ll find the tools you need to build your kitchen confidence. Whether you follow a special diet, enjoy plant-forward dinners, or simply […]
Diabetes-Friendly Cooking
Amidst the flurry of concerns a new diabetes diagnosis can bring, what to cook for dinner can seem like a huge hurdle. Simple everyday tasks like packing lunch or entertaining friends brings a new set of challenges. Receiving the news that you have prediabetes or diabetes is a food lover’s […]
Diabetes-Friendly Cuban-Style Black Bean Soup
Makes 6 servings We love the added flavor from the spices, sun-dried tomato, and sherry vinegar in this diabetes-friendly black bean soup. Garnish it with some mixed grains and wilted spinach and it becomes addictive.
Diabetes-Friendly Pecan Cookies
Makes 22 cookies
Diplomat Cream
Makes about 4 cups Diplomat Cream, a blend of pastry cream and whipped cream, can be used as a filling for cream puffs or chocolate éclairs, or as a layer in a trifle or icebox cake. The pastries should be baked and cooled before you make the diplomat cream; once […]
Dipping Candy Centers in Chocolate
Dipping centers in chocolate not only gives them a beautiful appearance and a crisp shell, it protects the centers from humidity and helps to maintain quality. Hand dipping chocolates is a technique that requires some precision and much practice to master. But, like all candy making, learning is much of […]
DIY your favorite, nostalgic guilty pleasures
Do you have a favorite processed food guilty pleasure? Go ahead, we won’t tell. Let’s face it: even among enthusiastic home cooks, processed foods, especially nostalgic ones, do have a time and a place. There’s just something about a classic, nostalgic treat that brings you back – maybe it’s an old commercial jingle, or […]
Do You Need a Kitchen Scale?
In professional kitchens, recipes and formulas are generally measured using scales, in either ounces or grams. Though there is room for volume measures (yes, professional kitchens do use measuring cups!), measuring ingredients by weight is more accurate and generally more efficient. It also leaves you with less dirty dishes, which […]
Dominican-Style Crème de Auyuma (Pumpkin Soup)
This cozy soup gets its creaminess from the rich auyuma squash and a last minute addition of coconut milk. Check your local Latino market for a variety of hard-skinned squashes for the soup.
Don’t Call it Quits with Your Kitchen
Today, I was planning to tell you all about the dish I was cooking for Cinco de Mayo. It was going to be great! Griddled corn cakes, slow cooked chicken. So good. And then the store was out of basically everything I needed to make it, so I couldn’t, and […]
Don’t Panic: Tips for Saving Your Sear
As recipe writers, we come back to the same phrases over and over. “Mix until light and fluffy…” “…until it doubles in size…” “Working in batches, sear the beef until it is browned all over…” That last one seems the simplest, but it actually tends to cause the most headaches […]