Serious Eats - seriouseats.com

my brother and sister-in-law and I made a video about HFCS!
check it out - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYiEFu54o1E

so i live about 3 blocks from this thing and i've been meaning to blog about it but haven't gotten a good pic yet.

It's right across the street from Wrigley Field and it's awesome!!!

it's very recognizable as an egg when it's closed and it's not as big as obnoxious as it looks in the pictures.

I thought it was a genius marketing move because it is a highly visible reminder that McDonald's uses real eggs for breakfast.

i have wished for years that McD's would serve breakfast all day - how hard could it be?!!!

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Anything my boyfriend doesn't like!
This usually involves raw tomatoes - like grilled cheese with tomato slices, or roasted charry tomatoes over pasta, or caprese salad with basil from my garden

I posted about another recipe from this great cookbook on my blog http://barredowl.wordpress.com/

come by and check it out!

this is SO funny to me because just last night i was browsing through cole slaw recipes on foodnetwork.com and the site kept suggesting that i look at the Ahi Tuna with Napa Cabbage Slaw!
Then i was skimming this post and those words jumped out at me again!
HA!

plagiarism stinks. i always credit the recipes on my blog (barredowl.wordpress.com - including the cole slaw i ended up creating based on the ingredients in my fridge) and so does every other respected food blogger out there.

For shame Cindy...

All the Hazan cookbooks (I have Marcella's Cucina, both Classic and the first one, her Italian Kitchen; Bugiali's comprehensive tome, Giuliano Hazan's wonderful pasta cookbook, James Beard's American Cooking, Olney's Simple French Cooking.

I would have to go with either the first Barefoot Contessa Cookbook (her bbq sauce and her scones are always hits around here), Bold American Food by Bobby Flay (his sauces) and The Silver Palate Cookbook (their recipe for Spaghetti with Oil & Garlic has been used more than anything else in there). I just adore the flavor of the chicken broth in that recipe! So creative.

Two cookbooks from Margaret Fox, the Cafe Beaujolais Cb and Morning Food are certainly among the worst-looking. I have bought multiple copies of each as gifts, and when I am sure they won't be returned for store credit, I copy my own notes on each recipe into them. The first two Silver Palates are also valuable, but I found nothing but disaster in the recipes I tried from New Basics so sent that one a-packing. I have three and a half tall bookcases full, plus more stacked nearby, and there are probably too many that I only use one recipe from. But some books are too much fun to re-read to send off to the Book Fair.

Lately, I've been bespattering "Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone", Deborah Madison, too but I also like to read the late Laurie Colwin's "Home Cooking" and "More Home Cooking". Her enthusiasm and quirkiness are infectious and there are many easy, practical and delicious recipes in both volumes. Katherine Hepburn's "Brownies" are exceptional! I use Joy of Cooking's "Know Your Ingredients" chapter for weights, substitutions, etc. These pages are fused together. The first cookbook I used is "Three Meals A Day", Jessie Read, Musson Publishing, Toronto:1946. I love its post-war economies, its basic recipes, my grandmother's entries on the blank pages and entries I made as an eleven year old learning to cook. I have TOO many favourite cookbooks - I collect cookbooks but I also use them.

I have to say Betty Crocker. It has been the "ole" stand by for many years
(I hate to say how many years). It's basic, but that's what I like about it, nothing fancy just old fashioned comfort food. I have altered many recipes to suit todays lifestyle, lower in fats etc. and use it more as a reference. I have collected cook books for 40+ years. Joy of Cooking being one but I have always loved local cookbooks, garden clubs, Junior League and several restaurant cookbooks. I love cajun cooking and "Don's seafood and steak house" is one of the best and I must say it finally bit the dust and I had to break down and buy a new one. Betty's binding is loose and a bit floopy ( but then, so am I ) but I don't need to replace her yet !