[Photograph: Robin Belinger] Shopping List 1 bunch baby bok choy: $2.00 12-ounce package soba noodles: $0.69 1 pound crimini mushrooms: $3.00 1 ear corn: $0.33 Knob of fresh ginger: $0.25 Cilantro (pro-rated): $0.50 Pantry items: Salt, peanut or olive...
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Principles of Stir-Fry, Part Four Previously Principles of Stir-Fry, Part One » Principles of Stir-Fry, Part Two » Principles of Stir-Fry, Part Three » All Seriously Asian coverage » My mother has a way of transforming vegetal chaos into order....
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Note: Philadelphia food writers Joy Manning and Tara Mataraza Desmond drop by each week with Meat Lite, which celebrates meat in moderation. Meat Lite was inspired by their book, Almost Meatless. There's Meat Lite, and then there's practically meatless. This...
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I completely botched a stir-fry recipe earlier this week, and I'm not proud of it. I thought I had the technique down, but this meal was bland and greasy with limp vegetables and tough meat. I had obviously tried...
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Wikimedia Commons I've been on a grilling kick recently and no wonder—with the weather in Chicago mostly nice and sunny except yesterday, I've been camping out on the stoop and grilling right on my sidewalk. (Is that even legal?)...
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Photograph from dvanhorn on Flickr I’m having a really good time plowing through The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook: The New Classics, because so many of the thousand-odd recipes feel inspired and simple. Sure, there are some wonderfully long procedures good...
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