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My wife likes Cake Boss much more than Ace of Cakes--and she works in that business.
I prefer the Cakes of 'Ace' but find the drama of the 'Boss' more entertaining.
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
Hands down, no competition favorite is Serious Eats!
Honestly.
The 10 Worst Food Trends? Really?
I will miss the blooming onion. I never opted to take my chance to have one before they were declare illegal. I snooze, I looze (yep).
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Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
My mom always bragged that when she got married the only thing she could cook was fudge.
Somehow, by the time I was old enough to remember, she turned out a righteous leg of lamb. Yum!
Fresh Food on TV: Weekday Edition
My wife likes Cake Boss much more than Ace of Cakes--and she works in that business.
I prefer the Cakes of 'Ace' but find the drama of the 'Boss' more entertaining.
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
Hands down, no competition favorite is Serious Eats!
Honestly.
The 10 Worst Food Trends? Really?
I will miss the blooming onion. I never opted to take my chance to have one before they were declare illegal. I snooze, I looze (yep).
Cook the Book: The Southern Italian Table
Fusilli with pesto gets my vote, I hope I get yours!
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'
My first cooking job was at a nursing home that was about to close. The chef left me a recipe for apple crisp that called for 'fat'. I used the bacon grease that he had been saving for the birds.
Critic-Turned-Cook Finds Her Dream Job at a Frat House Kitchen
This seems like my dream job--where do I sign up?
Cook the Book: 'Japanese Hot Pots'
Gotta be French Onion w/ a great big crouton and a whole mess of crispy cheese on top!
Cook the Book: 'Zingerman's Guide to Better Bacon'
I love bacon 'cause it rhymes with 'Macon": a place I've never bean but always wanted to go to.
First Look: New White House Farmers' Market
You have to go through a metal detector to buy your zucchini? That's progress!
Cook the Book: 'Zingerman's Guide to Better Bacon'
I love bacon because bacon loves me.
7 Ways to Reuse a Banana Peel
I usually feed them to the worms.
Macaroni Soup with Ham for Breakfast in Hong Kong
Posole is the way to go!
Cook the Book: 'Zingerman's Guide to Better Bacon'
Bacon lubricates my joints perfectly.
Befriending Chefs/Restaurant Staff
I think it is the chefs' responsibility to bring you a "Welcome to the neighborhood" housewarming basket of goodies!
Seriously Sick: Food For When You're Under the Weather
I just had to do this (doctors orders):
chicken broth
soy
rice wine vinegar
sesame oil
garlic powder
I hardly missed eating.
Saving Bacon Fat
I keep my fat in a jelly jar in the 'fridge, but I've not been straining it. So far there have been no problems. What do you folks use to strain it? The solids I find are pretty small. Most would, I think, go through the fine mesh strainer I have. I doubt I have the patience for a coffee filter. I don't, generally, keep cheesecloth on hand, but...
Cook the Book: 'Big Bob Gibson's BBQ Book'
Many years ago my wife convinced me to take her on a camping vacation to The Land Between the Lakes, so we could visit the American Quilter's Society Quilt Show and Contest in Paducah, KY. Our downstairs neighbor, on hearing we were going to Paducah gave us a fist full of money to bring him a BBQ pork shoulder from a long forgotten smoke shack in town. We couldn't resist sampling the package on the way back. It was my first 'real BBQ' experience and still my favorite!
Frozen Shrimp: To Use or Not to Use?
My wife is allergic to shellfish so I really haven't investigated this thoroughly. Can you get frozen 'head-on' shrimp?
Alice Waters' Startup Story
"Chez Panisse chefs work three and are paid for five."
I'm skeptical: Alice Waters is an astute business woman. What's her pay scale like?
Not Technically Food Books, But Books with Good Food Passages
How is it that no one has mentioned, as yet:
Green Eggs and Ham ????!!!!
Not Technically Food Books, But Books with Good Food Passages
Highly recommend: Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe series. Excellent noir fiction.
Heirloom Tomatoes Help
BBMT: Bacon, basil, mozz, & tomato on lightly toasted focaccio or ciabatta
Cook the Book: 'Bite-Size Desserts'
A thin slice of Spanish chorizo on a wheat cracker over a healthy dollop of some sort of stinky cheese. Explorateur works fine!
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
fajitas, hands down.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Layer sauerkraut in a casserole dish, place pork chops on top and season (I use cracked black pepper, garlic powder and smoked paprika), cover with lid or seal with foil, bake in 400 degree oven for 45 minutes. I like to make mashed potatoes with it, but have also just done steamed veggies on the side.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Grandy's roast beef, carrots, and mashed potatoes
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Mom's from-the-Campbell's-can versions of Chicken a la King and Beef Stroganoff!
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!)
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My mom always bragged that when she got married the only thing she could cook was fudge.
Somehow, by the time I was old enough to remember, she turned out a righteous leg of lamb. Yum!