Tag: cooking
group name: foodtalk
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April 26, 2006 04:39 PM EDT --
Just Like Mom's
The urge to nostalgia seems universal. We are most aware of it when nostalgia for some aspect of our past becomes fashionable again as with automobiles like the Ford Thunderbird . . .
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October 28, 2007 11:27 AM EDT --
Inspired by this article by Julia Schrenkler: http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977157715#comments
What would you make with the following list of five ingredients? . . .
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September 01, 2007 10:20 AM EDT --
With the emphasis on Americans needing to eat healthier and all you hear and read about the epidemic of our children being obese, why hasn’t the food network created more healthy shows for us that . . .
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May 31, 2008 01:14 PM EDT --
NOTE: I originally intended to publish this article the night of Memorial Day or the morning after. However, Gather glitches prevented me from uploading the images in a timely fashion, and I've been . . .
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November 05, 2009 08:47 AM EST --
I am making myself a birthday cake and would like to try using fondant. it will be my first fondant experience, and if it doesn't come out perfect it's ok because it's for me. I had wanted . . .
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April 10, 2006 12:38 PM EDT --
Sins of Commission
Most of us have a few guilty secrets. There are early transgressions we might now admit to with a wry, if slightly embarrassed, grin. For instance, as a child I was sometimes unable . . .
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April 12, 2006 07:55 PM EDT --
Ok, I'm sitting here at laptop heaven, glass of Reisling in hand (it was all that was left from the blueberry wine debauchery of the recent past) and waiting for a very delicious lasagna to bake itself . . .
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December 08, 2006 05:39 AM EST --
1) Shred potato and onion at the same time to prevent discoloration
2) Work in small batches. Shred only enough for one batch at time.
3) Rinse shredded mixture in a colander, squeeze excess water, pat . . .
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July 01, 2008 01:27 PM EDT --
I was thinking about this today - the first meal I made for my husband, when we were dating. It was a disaster. I had told him that I made this great version of Arroz con Pollo and when it came to making . . .
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September 14, 2007 09:34 PM EDT --
Recently I've been having some fun in the kitchen creating recipes using products from Dulcet Cuisine including my favorite, the Madras Curry Mustard. I'm not the only one to have fallen in love . . .
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March 08, 2006 02:23 PM EST --
Old Friends
These days when I need a recipe idea my first inclination is to sit down on the couch and fire up my laptop. Finding a recipe on the Web is fast, easy, and there are hundreds of thousands . . .
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April 21, 2006 11:11 AM EDT --
Ohhhhh Cilantro. Coriander. Chinese/Mexican Parsley. By any name I adore this herb, but my better half says on a good day it tastes like old-fashioned soap.
This must be a genetic trick. The first time . . .
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August 22, 2006 01:49 PM EDT --
When we moved into our home, eight years ago, I started a little herb garden under the lilac in the corner of the back yard. One of the plants I added was a four inch tall rosemary, nestled next to a Spanish . . .
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November 01, 2006 06:58 PM EST --
I've met many cooks over the years and it has always been interesting to learn that often their inspiration for cooking was a grandmother, or a mother, and that they spent many hours as . . .
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November 09, 2006 06:53 PM EST --
Many years ago, during the early 1980's, when my husband and I increased the size of our family of five to include five Vietnamese children, I realized that I was . . .
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September 19, 2006 02:07 PM EDT --
I have a metal box full of recipes typed on 4 x 6 inch index cards. Some were shared by friends and family members and others are just things I collected over the years. And in some cases I recorded . . .
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August 28, 2006 07:13 PM EDT --
2 lbs. lean ground beef
1 cup chopped celery
1 cup chopped green bell pepper
1/2 cup chopped onion
1 can Progresso hearty tomato soup (19oz)
1 can condensed chicken gumbo soup (10 3/4 oz)
2 tbsp. . . .
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March 27, 2006 06:30 PM EST --
my brother came to visit this past week, and he brought one of the dishes that they love to make in his firehouse in seattle. it is a recipe for pulled pork. that name - so short and sweet - does not even . . .
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May 17, 2006 06:03 PM EDT --
A Perfect Morning
Coffee and newspaper in hand, I stepped out onto my patio and into that strangely orange-gold light that suffuses a clear fall morning. Each season seems to have it's own special . . .
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March 24, 2006 05:21 PM EST --
Fast Food?
As much as I love experimenting with new dishes and variations on older dishes, sometimes I get burned out on the entire process. I get tired of Googling for a new way to fix salmon, or leafing . . .
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