Sunday brunch, Bloody Marys; you get the drift? Someone mentioned Bloody Marys the other day and I realized there hadn't been one at a brunch here since Super Bowl Sunday. We usually infuse own own chili vodka for our special...
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Does anyone have the link to the recent recipe that has made the magazine and newspaper rounds for crisp-skinned roast chicken rubbed with baking soda and salt? I thought I saw it in Serious Eats or in Cooks Illustrated, but...
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No, it's not SL, it's only me. We're deep into the cocktail hour here and have invented a new and perfectly luscious libation. It's 3/4 oz. Grey Goose, 3/4 oz. Cointreau, 3/4 oz. peach brandy and 1 oz. blood orange...
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A few months ago, somebody gave me the Cooks Illustrated recipe for Chocolate-Chunk Oatmeal Cookies with Dried Cherries. I can't figure out what I did with it and I really wanted to bake up a batch -- they were so...
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Several cheesecake recipes that I have provide for from 2-4 eggs. What effect does adding more eggs have in making a cheesecake?...
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DECA in our school is doing a fundraiser, like every year, for the Herbie Fund, which gives life saving surgeries to children in third world countries. We sell food during lunch periods as part of the fund raiser. What recipes...
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I want to make a GOOD chicken or steak fajita. I have always used the fajita seasoning packets, but now want to make them from scratch. Does anyone have a good recipe?...
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Yearning for some warm weather picnic-type foods like baked beans. What's your secret to the best tasting pot of baked beans? Start from scratch... all the way from soaking the beans? Based on canned ones? Molasses or maple syrup are...
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My sister-in-law doesn't cook much, though she has a huge recipe box filled with all kinds of interesting dishes that she's hijacked from various friends and family members. A while back I came upon a recipe of hers called "chicken...
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What is your favorite base for infusions? Vodka, rum, vinegar, olive oil? What has been your most successful and/or extraordinary original infusion to date? Can you share a recipe using your special nectar?...
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