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A Pot or Pan used for cooking that contains a basket for holding foods to be blanched. The foods are placed in the basket which is then lowered into the pot filled with water that will be heated for the blanching, boiling, or steaming process.

A thinner version of fettuce. Fettuccine is approximately ¼ inch wide. They are sold in loosely coiled nests and in flat strands approximately 10 inches long.

A brown skinned, oblong potato with a white interior, which is one of the most popular potatoes. It has a rough skin with numerous eyes and can grow quite large.

Underground legumes that have a nutlike flavor and are high in valuable proteins. They are sold in many forms, such as shelled and unshelled, whole or halves, salted, lightly salted, or unsalted, and raw or dry roasted.

A variety of potato which is harvested very early in its growth. This potato is removed from the vine while the leaves on the plant are still green, growing to an approximate diameter of 2 inches.

A univalve mollusk with a spiral shell. Of the various varieties, the vineyard snail, which feeds on grape leaves, is considered the best eating but it grows slowly and is difficult to raise.

A soft pasta noodle or dumpling made from flour, eggs, salt and water or milk. The dough is made firm enough to roll out and cut into thin pieces or it is made soft enough to force through a sieve with large holes.

A fresh bean that grows in the sea in the form of a long, pencil thin, cylindrical green stem that may have spherical-shaped, spike-like buds on the ends.

A corn product created by soaking white or yellow corn kernels in scalding water that is mixed with a chemical solution, such as a mild lye or slaked lime.

A sauce made with the juices released from oven roasted or stove top cooked foods, such as meat, poultry or vegetables.

1. Cucumbers that have been preserved in vinegar brine, along with pickling spices, such as fresh dill.

A French pastry that uses a distinct preparation method, different from other pastry procedures, to produce a silky smooth batter for a light pastry shell with an inner open chamber and thin crumb.

Translated from Spanish into English it means "dough flour", an ingredient that is a powdered form of a dough made from dried hominy.

Pieces of food, such as apple pieces, that are dipped into batter and deep-fried. Fritters are prepared by first making a batter to which the ingredients are added.

The process of "dry" cooking food totally covered in hot cooking fat or oil. This process produces evenly cooked food with a golden, crisp surface on the outside.

red skin golden potato,

A narrower version of the long lasagne noodle. It is found with wavy edges on both sides, on one side, or having straight cut edges on both sides.

A sugar syrup that is made into a pliable form to be used as a flavored candy or as an icing that is flattened into a sheet form to be laid over a cake.

Aioli,

A product common in Asia and very popular in Japan that consists of fresh green soybeans picked while they are still young.