A Great Deal on a Digital Kitchen Scale

I have been using this digital scale for over a  year without issues. It’s compact and lightweight. The tare button subtracts container weight to zero out the scale, so you only measure ingredients. For $11.39 Prime, it’s a great deal.

Royal Spice Indian Restaurant

Royal Spice
219 East Main St.
Front Royal, VA 22630
(540) 252-2288
www.royalspiceva.com

Indian | $$

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The restaurant is well-lit and comfortable in downtown Front Royal, VA.

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The chicken Momos served with a chili tomato sauce were excellent.

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The Garlic Naan was served warm and was perfect.

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I ordered the Butter Chicken for my entrée. This dish had a wonderful flavor with tender chicken.

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My wife ordered the Tikka Masala with chicken cooked in a tomato onion sauce. She really enjoyed her dish. It was tasty and not overly spicy.

Owner/Chef Janardan Sijapati has done an excellent job bringing authentic Nepalese and Indian food to the Shenandoah Valley. If you are in the area, it’s worth stopping in.

This $26 Kitchen Thermometer Is a Dupe for Our Favorite at a Quarter of the Price

If you don’t want to shell out $99 for a Thermapen One, this cheaper alternative gets the job done too. You can find it at Amazon here.

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World-renowned restaurant Noma to close, citing ‘unsustainable’ model

Noma in Copenhagen was considered the world’s best restaurant, but its painstaking and labor-intensive model was unsustainable.

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How to Trim Spare Ribs

Have you wanted to take a full rack of spareribs and trim it down to a St. Louis cut? Well, let’s discuss what spareribs are in the first place. Spareribs are taken from the belly of the pig and are longer than their counterpart baby back ribs.

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How To Blanch Vegetables

Along with steaming, blanching vegetables is a basic technique every cook should know. Briefly boiled and then plunged into ice water, these bright and tender-crisp vegetables may be used in crudité platters, salads, sushi rolls, and stir fries, or refrigerated or frozen for later use.

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What Is Smoke Point and Why Should You Care?

Keep your cooking oils and fats from burning with this handy guide, including a chart of the different smoke points of various cooking oils and fats. READ MORE…

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