On our San Francisco Food Tours, it??s always fun to taste the result of some new way that someone has to use any ingredients.
On our San Francisco Food Tour of North Beach\Little Italy and Chinatown, it??s always interesting to see how someone can take one ingredient and use them in so many foods. Take something red peppers, they??re sweet and go great in anything that you want that great sweet flavor, such as a salad. Take that same ingredient and pair with something like chicken, and you??ve got a great main dish. Or make it into as soup and its great way also. Or something tomatoes, in everything from salad to sauces to soups, it??s the perfect ingredient.
On our San Francisco Food Tours, it??s always fun to taste the result of some new way that someone has to use any ingredients. Take that red pepper, pair with cherry pepper and it makes that chicken ever better, sweet with a spicy finish. Or take some basil , add to the tomato soup and it makes that soup every better.
It??s not elaborate the preparation or how exotic the ingredient is, it??s more so how fresh it is. That tomato, for example, when it??s fresh it??s so good, sweet with a wonderful tomato flavor. A few days later, it tastes almost bland. The same thing with those red peppers, they are great when they are fresh, not so good when they are not fresh.
The key seems to be how close ingredient is from. If it??s not close, in the time that it takes to get to you, it loses all of its flavor. It??s the reason that we like to eat ingredients that are grown so close to where we are. It makes for a yummy creation.