Homemade Salty Snacks
Cynthia Nims
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- In-depth Instruction; over 154 mins
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Popcorn & Nuts
23:22
Learn the secret to making perfectly crunchy popcorn and how to season it with nori and sesame or your favorite spices. Then turn your focus to roasting as you make nuts seasoned with garlic, smoked paprika and a dash of cayenne.
Potato Chips & Other Vegetable Chips
30:11
The key to a perfect chip starts with choosing the right potato. Cynthia demonstrates how to get thin, even slices and shows you what to look for to achieve golden-brown, crispy chips every time. Learn how to make seasoned salts, carrot and parsnip chips and even baked kale chips.
Homemade Crackers
30:38
Start with a simple cheddar and cornmeal cracker and work your way up to a yeasted saltine cracker as you learn how to roll out dough, make clean and even cuts and flavor your creations with numerous spices, seeds and other seasonings.
Soft Pretzels
20:59
What makes a pretzel crusty on the outside and soft on the inside? It's blanching the dough before baking. Cynthia walks you step by step through the process and also shares the secret ingredient she adds to her pretzels. It will be sure to ignite your taste buds and amaze your friends!
Breadsticks
27:55
Learn how to form, flavor and season these wonderfully versatile snacks using store-bought puff pastry or a yeasted dough made from scratch. Sprinkle them with Parmesan cheese or infuse the dough with cracked black pepper. Then bake to crispy perfection.
Stocking the Snack Lover's Pantry
20:33
Often it's the salt or other seasonings that makes the snack. Cynthia leads an in-depth discussion on varieties of salts as well as some of the best herbs, spices and seeds to use when seasoning your snacks. She'll also show you how to make pita and tortilla chips as well as marinated olives.
Discover how fun it is to create delicious, creative snacks in your own kitchen! Cookbook author Cynthia Nims guides you through more than a dozen salty snacks, starting with tasty techniques for transforming popcorn and nuts with exotic seasonings. Dive into three irresistible versions of chips with a traditional potato chip recipe and other healthy varieties using kale, parsnips and carrots. Find out how to make crunchy, flavorful crackers from homemade dough, and create fresh pretzels in less than an hour. Finally, use puff pastry for elegant parmesan breadsticks and festive pesto pinwheels or make crunchy grissini, all sure to please at your next cocktail party. Plus, discover how to stock your pantry so you can whip up customizable DIY snacks whenever the craving strikes!
Cynthia Nims
Author and culinary consultant Cynthia Nims’ latest cookbook Salty Snacks was released in September 2012, her book Gourmet Game Night was published in 2010, and she has been the author or editor of more than two dozen other books. Previously editor of Simply Seafood magazine and food editor of Seattle Magazine, she has since been a contributor to Cooking Light, Alaska Airlines Magazine, and other magazines as well. Her blog, Mon Appétit, can be found at www.monappetit.com.
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