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How to sweat vegetables
"Sweating" vegetables is a useful cooking technique that yields great results.

Deutsch: Backofen / Español: Horno / Português: Forno / Français: Four / Italiano: Forno /

Horno is a traditional oven of Taos Pueblo Indians which is beehive-shaped wood-heated outdoor oven made of mud, straw, rocks and adobe bricks.

Holzspieß also spelled as Holzspiess is a German word for wooden spit used to stick food, like meat and vegetables to barbecue or to grill.

Hors d'Oeuvre is a French term for appetizer or first course of the meal.

Horchata is referring to a Mexican rice water or milk that is flavored with cinnamon and sugar
Huevos ranchero refers to Mexican fried or poached eggs which is covered with a spicy sauce made of red and green tomatoes and chiles.