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Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'

Oooh, my fav Thanksgiving side is definitely my uncle's mashed potatoes! :)

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Dinner Tonight: Chairman Mao's Red-Braised Pork

Oooh, this looks amazing! Definitely will have to give it a try!

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Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'

My fav family dinner is definitely my mom's lasagna. So good! :)

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From Serious Eats

Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'

Oooh, my fav Thanksgiving side is definitely my uncle's mashed potatoes! :)

From Recipes

Dinner Tonight: Chairman Mao's Red-Braised Pork

Oooh, this looks amazing! Definitely will have to give it a try!

From Serious Eats

Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'

My fav family dinner is definitely my mom's lasagna. So good! :)

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Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'

I think Culinary Concoctions by Peabody would have to be my fav! :)

From Serious Eats

Cook the Book: The Southern Italian Table

I like pasta with olive oil, garlic, and red pepper seeds! :)

From Serious Eats

Serious Heat: Cayenne Tea to Cure the Sniffles

EEEK, this is seriously spicy! I'm sick and currently suffering through a glass of this stuff because the normal decongestants aren't working too well. Seems to be helping, but boy is is painful! (I guess the sore throat doesn't help things...but maybe it will numb my throat a little too??)

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Cook the Book: Pumpkin Baking

My favorite pumpkin recipe is definitely this amazing pumpkin fondue that my friend made us last year She scraped the seeds out of a pumpkin and then filled it with layered bread and cheese. AMAZING!

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Cook the Book: 'The Craft of Baking'

Ooooh, this is a hard one but I'd have to go with my mom's iced sugar cookies! They're amazing! :)

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Should Restaurants Be Allowed To Ban Laptops?

Laptops are one thing, but BOOKS?! I get the point that if you ban laptops, maybe you will turn tables over faster or something. But often I'll bring a book for if I'm waiting for someone for five minutes or something, not necessarily to work for hours on end. Why not just have a rule that as long as you're at a table, you need to be eating something? We have a cafe where in off hours, you can nurse a coffee and work for a few hours, but during meal times, you must order a meal to be there and they'll ask you to move along if there's a line. They don't ban anything, just make it clear that if you're there at a busy time, you have a certain amount of time to eat your meal, which I think is fine. The minute I see a "no reading" sign somewhere, though, you can bet they won't be getting my business!! What's next, no texting? After all, you could be spending that time shoveling food in your mouth and getting out of there as fast as humanly possible!

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Cook the Book: 'Zingerman's Guide to Better Bacon'

Oh wow, do I love bacon! I would have to say that the number one reason I love it at the moment is the savory, smoky flavor it contributes to my maple-bacon mini cupcakes! :)

From Serious Eats

Cook the Book: 'Dishing Up Vermont'

I'm from Ohio and I love the buckeye candies we make with a sweet peanut butter filling, dipped in chocolate. YUM!

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Cook the Book: 'Bite-Size Desserts'

My fav bite-sized treat is definitely doughnut holes! YUM.

From Slice

Jamba Juice's New California Flatbreads: We Ate Them So You Don't Have To

We have these here in CA too, though luckily I have NOT tried them yet and now I don't have to! I love seeing the pictures here, as the promo photos of these things they have in the store look awesome...but I was assuming reality might not be so good!

I have to say, though, their other food is really pretty good! I don't know how much of the country has their new wraps and salads, but I've been very happy with them for the price. I've tried the ceasar salad (ok but not amazing), the greens and grains wrap (excellent), and the asian chicken wrap (also very good). It's a good value, too, with a small smoothie and a wrap or salad for abut $7.50.

From Serious Eats

Should Junk Food Help Pay for Health Care?

Obesity also seems to be related to poverty, for a lot of reasons, so I don't see how taxing it is useful, unless--how about a tax on junk food that pays for subsidies for fruits, veggies, and lean proteins, as well as classes to teach folks how to make fast meals at home from these ingredients. (Not to say that cost and cooking skills are the only issues involved in the poverty-obesity link, but at least it might help to equalize the per-calorie prices between healthy and unhealthy foods.)

A tax on sugar-y drinks would seem to make more sense since these beverages are literally empty calories without any nutritional value at all, and everyone can get the alternative (water) very cheaply.

From Serious Eats

Cook the Book: '660 Curries' by Raghavan Iyer

My first time having Indian food was actually in college, as hard as that is to believe (I'm only 25, so it is sort of crazy, but I grew up in a small town with limited culinary options). I was totally blown away...it was so amazing! :)

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Cook the Book: 'Canal House Cooking, Vol. 1'

My favorite summer recipe is fresh corn on the cob, barely cooked, with butter and salt.

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Cook the Book: 'Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern Pies'

I had a really embarrassing "cooking" FAIL when I was in college - I tried to make instant pudding and it ended up all lumpy and gross! I didn't even know you could mess up instant pudding. :-D Luckily I have improved since then!!

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Dinner Tonight: Sweet Potato, Eggplant, and Spinach Madras Curry

I made this with two changes to add moisture. I added about 1/2 cup of coconut milk after adding all the vegetables, which was delicious. I also added in the spinach raw and let it wilt into the eggplant and potatoes rather than squeezing all the moisture out ahead of time. Overall, I was really happy with it! It definitely felt like a main dish with the added "sauciness". Yum!

From Serious Eats

Cook the Book: 'Bobby Flay's Burgers, Fries & Shakes'

My fav burger is the avocado-bacon burger at Triple Rock in Berkeley, CA. Or maybe the blue cheese burger at Flame in Berkeley. Too many good burgers!

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Threadless T-Shirt Giveaway: A Piece of Cake

That's hard as I LOVE cake, but I'm going to have to go with my mom's yogurt cake. I once ate half of one in one sitting, it was so good!!!

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Threadless T-Shirt Giveaway: Lemon Aid

I love sparking strawberry lemonade...basically lemon juice, sugar, strawberry puree, and sparking water. SO good!!!

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Threadless T-Shirt Giveaway: Baron VonFunburger's Haunted Castle Cavalcade

I would have to say it's the Taco Bell bean burrito with no onions. (I know, gross! But I love them).

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Cook the Book: 'L.A.'s Original Farmers Market Cookbook'

I love Frog Hollow Farms at our local farmer's market...yummy fruits, awesome jams, and great fruit pastries.

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Egg in Toast: What Do You Call It?

My grandma always called this dish "silly eggs". Yum!

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Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'

It's a toss up between my Mom's mushroom rice or sweet potatoe pie.

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Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'

My favorite is sweet potato salad - potato salad but with sweet potatoes. It has bacon and jalapenos and is all htings good!

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Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'

I love a homemade cornbread stuffing! Nothing beats it.

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Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'

My nannie always made a casserole of asparagus, green peas, mushroom gravy and cream cheese and loads of cheddar on top. Though I wouldn't eat this any other day of the year, it just isn't Thanksgiving without it.

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Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'

I love my hubby's grandma's homemade noodles. They are so, so good.
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Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'

Has to be the stuffing! It's the only time of the year I make it. And ooooh so good the nest day- IF it makes it!

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Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'

My favorite Thanksgiving side is cornbread-sausage stuffing. So rich, so good!

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Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'

I love the fresh and fresh tasting cranberry and orange relish. Yum.

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Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'

Green bean casserole, it's not really special but we only have it twice a year. I guess that's what makes it special.

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Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'

My favorite Thanksgiving side is stuffing with gravy.

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Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'

Fried Turkey, stuffing and gingersnap gravy in one bite. By far my favorite holiday as it is truly THE holiday for food lovers! I can't wait!!

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Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'

Oyster stuffing. Tough part, finding enough people who aren't oyster-phobic...

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Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'

Gotta go with roasted garlic mashed potatoes. I could eat it all.

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Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'

My moms - potatoes, summer savory and crushed crackers, also includes tons of butter and a few onions - I miss stuffing since it started killing people :(

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Cook the Book: 'Simple Fresh Southern'

I love homemade warm applesauce!! That and the apple pie are my favorite part of Thanksgiving. I don't like most of the other food including the turkeY!

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