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I just e-mailed a friend who lives in Korea and told her I want a full report on these : )
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salted black beans, a bottle of rennet
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Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
pulled pork with homemade buns
Kimchi Donuts from Dunkin' Donuts in Korea
I just e-mailed a friend who lives in Korea and told her I want a full report on these : )
What strange things are in the door of your fridge?
salted black beans, a bottle of rennet
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
Impossible to pick one
Cake Wrecks
Serious Eats
The Kitchen
Heavy Table
David Lebovitz
Simply Recipes
Grape/gorgonzola flat bread
It's more of a coffeecake (sciaciatta), but you've given me some ideas. If I bake it tonight I may refresh it in the oven before I leave for work. It's being served at 9 am. Or I may reduce the yeast and let it rise overnight and bake it while I'm getting ready in the morning. Rest assured, I would NEVER microwave it!
Anthony Bourdain and Vegetarians/Vegans
Tony has eaten in some very poor parts of the world and has made the point that in wealthier countries people have the luxury of choosing whether to be a vegetarian; that many people in the world don't have that choice; they're grateful to have something to eat. I have a cousin that was a vegetarian before he was in the Peace Corps in Africa in a very poor area. When someone served him something out of the goodness of their heart, he ate it.
To tell or not to tell...
If you don't like doing it in person, you can send a nice e-mail, if possible. We were being treated to dinner once, and the seafood dish didn't have half the things in it that it was supposed to. I didn't want to complain in front of our hosts, so the next day I wrote an e-mail to the restaurant. I received a prompt apology and a gift certificate for another visit.
Cook the Book: The Southern Italian Table
homemade meatballs first fried and then simmered in crushed tomatoes, garlic, and olive oil, over cappellini
Cook the Book: 'The Craft of Baking'
Don't forget about Gale Gand and Jacques Torres
Cook the Book: 'The Craft of Baking'
Still-warm chocolate cream pie at a now-closed diner in Asheville, NC, eaten at breakfast time because we were leaving town and it was the only chance to have their pie.
Cook the Book: 'Japanese Hot Pots'
Our favorite soup is butternut squash with spicy kielbasa, wild rice and finished with some cream.
Tasting P.B. Loco's Wacky Line of Peanut Butters
P.B. Loco's Asian Curry is great spread on naan and eaten with a curry or a bowl of ramen noodles.
Cook the Book: 'Gourmet Today'
I has received cookbooks as gifts, but I think the first one I really bought for myself was Julia Child's The Way To Cook. It was quite an investment for me at the time. I still use the Pate Brisee recipe for a savory spinach pie I make and I used to wow people with the chocolate mousse in my early days of cooking.
Cook the Book: 'Big Bob Gibson's BBQ Book'
Ridgewood's in Bluff City, TN
Seriously Asian: Searching for the Perfect Wok
I was really puzzled this summer when I used my carbon steel wok over coals in a campfire because I thought I'd be getting the heat I wasn't able to get on the stove. Now I know that the problem was the heat retention of the steel.
Who Likes Grape Soda?
Love it! This also gives me the freedom to admit I love Tahitian Treat
Gadgets: The Aebelskiver Pan
I found one of these pans at a garage sale a few years ago. Homemade ones are easy and great.
Freezing Eggs
I had some eggs accidentally freeze in an old fridge at the cabin a couple of weeks ago. The shells cracked a bit, but otherwise the eggs were frozen intact. Kind of neat, like uncooked hardboiled eggs. I should have just peeled them and thrown the eggs in a ziploc freezer bag.
Cook the Book: 'Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern Pies'
Making zucchini bread with cucumbers
Cook the Book: 'Bobby Flay's Burgers, Fries & Shakes'
The Delano Burger at the Peppermint Twist in Delano, MN. Triple decker with cheese, fried onions, bacon, and mushrooms. Second favorite, the burger at Vincent in Mpls. A burger stuffed with braised short ribs and smoked gouda, served on a challah bun.
Threadless T-Shirt Giveaway: A Piece of Cake
Almond flavored white cake with almond/vanilla flavored buttercream
Threadless T-Shirt Giveaway: Lemon Aid
With lemons, sugar syrup and sometimes fizzy water.
Cook the Book: 'L.A.'s Original Farmers Market Cookbook'
Anything at the Dane County Farmer's market in Madison, but fresh in my memory from Saturday is the still-warm apple fritter from Farm Pride Bakery of Gay Mills, WI
Threadless T-Shirt Giveaway: Baron VonFunburger's Haunted Castle Cavalcade
White Caste cheeseburgers with cold pickles and cold ketchup
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Mom's from-the-Campbell's-can versions of Chicken a la King and Beef Stroganoff!
What strange things are in the door of your fridge?
@nightowl, are you suppossed to refrigerate tapioca? i have it in my pantry.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Mom's homemade lasagna, bread, and apple pie.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Coming from a Turkish household, my favorite family dinner is mercimek çorbasi (lentil soup) with köfte (ground beef/meatball-like patties), domatesli pilav (tomato rice), and yogurt.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Favorite family dinner would have to be my childhood birthday meal of Earl Abel's fried chicken and black bottom pie.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Sauerbraten and homemade sides.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Really anything, as long as it's accompanied by family and laughter. We often have shrimp scampi in the summer and a roast with Yorkshire Pudding in the winter....mmm.... :)
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Our favorite family dinner is Homemade Lasagna with a green salad and homemade yeast rolls.
Thank you so much for the chance to win.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
spaghetti and meatballs
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
We called it "chicken and glop", but it was chicken and rice. How did my mother put up with us?
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
It depends on the weather for me, but at this time of year it's roast chicken, mashed potatoes, peas (homegrown, please; frozen peas from the store are inevitably overripe), green salad, and pie.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
meatloaf and mashed potatoes!
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
My favorite family dinner would have to be posole. We have it every christmas eve with fresh tamales and it is sooo good.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Gosh, my favorite family dinner!? That's hard . My family is full of great cooks so I guess it has more to do with the atmosphere. So then I would have to go with Christmas eve dinner. 14 cousins plus 16 Aunts and Uncles all eating and drinking and being merry. Usually there's a goose (which doesn't hurt) and floating islands for desert. super yummm, it warms my heart just to think about it.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
ribs. lasagna. soup. anything my mom makes
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Our favorite comfort food is mapo tofu - spicy and warming - over rice with some sauteed greens. Something about one bowl foods you can hold in your hand do it for us...
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Pasta with meat sauce and bread!
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Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Boring but comforting - an overly stuffed tuna salad sandwich, on wonderful crusty rye bread, a slight smear of mayo, crisp iceberg lettuce, juicy tomato, cut in half please.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Irish Coddle. A big pot, almost stew but with not quite enough liquid, of potatoes, bacon, sausage and onion. Gets you fattened up for hibernation season.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
barbeque salmon and broccoli slaw, mom's favorite summer specialty
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
One of my favorite family meals is banh xeo. They're savory, yellow crepes and having all sorts of people in my family through marriage, some being born in Vietnam, some being born here, etc., my mom gets a lot of different requests as to what to put in them. First she makes the vegetarian kind for those folks then regular Americanized ones then the hardcore ones.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
(I posted this in the wrong place earlier today--so this is a "re"post!) A general comment about all the "Cook the Book" posts and recipes: The publishers are very smart to provide five free copies to SE because your write-ups have caused me to go online and buy many many cookbooks that I never would have known about otherwise! Sometimes I enter the giveaway with a comment, but I know my chances of winning are slim, so I go ahead and order the book in a frenzy of impatience. The Mark Peel cookbook is an example; it will be winging its way to me today because I love the cover photo and the recipes for green bean salad and mashed potatoes--and I can't wait to receive it! This has been true for several other cookbooks, too. (One time I actually won the cookbook in the SE giveaway, and had to give that second copy to my son. He was Seriously Happy!)
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
My favorite family dinner that I make for my roomies is pulled pork sandwiches! Maybe a side of spicy thai cole slaw.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Homemade pizza! Usually 3 different varieties... last time it was alfredo sauce, fresh mozz, marinated artichoke hearts, baby spinach, leftover grilled chicken; marinara, fresh mozz, diced fresh pineapple, julienned canadian bacon, and oregano; and marinara, shredded mozz, and pepperoni for the kids. Everyone gets to help and everyone gets what they want. Then a big caesar salad w/homemade croutons and dressing.
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pulled pork with homemade buns