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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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Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'

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

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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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Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'

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

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Cook the Book: The Southern Italian Table

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

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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! :)

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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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Threadless T-Shirt Giveaway: Pancake Mountain

My favorite would have to be my sister's famous chocolate-white chocolate chip pancakes. They may be one of those dessert-for-breakfast dishes, but they are SO SO SO good. Totally amazing. :)

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Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption

I have never meet an olive I didn't love. Since I am just back from Madrid, I will say arbequina olives with a nice red wine at an outdoor tapas bar.

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Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption

Not really a huge fan of olives but olive oil is a wonderful thing.

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Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption

I still remember the first time I had a kalamata olive. I was 13 years old, and my family had decided to picnic with some friends along a river. One person had brought along a bunch of kalamatas and was raving about them. I was eager to try one, but when I did, I thought they were awful. But after eating them at random intervals over the years, I've grown to love them; they're now my favorite :)

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Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'

I love pot roast with roasted potatoes, onions, and carrots. YUM!

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Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption

been craving saltiness lately and it's been satiated with the kalamata olives. :)

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Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption

the little spanish arbequina olives, hands down.

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Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'

Spaghetti and meatballs always goes over well here.

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Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'

My family would be happy if I'd make them chicken and dumplings at least once a week. (And it's so easy!)

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Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'

My family did roast chicken dinners every Sunday when I was growing up. Can't beat grandma's cooking!

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Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption

I love olives! My favorite depends on my mood - sometimes cerignola, sometimes arbequina, sometimes picholines, sometimes nicoise, sometimes picual, sometimes manzanilla - give them all to me.

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Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'

Spaghetti with meatballs and chunks of Italian sausage in a smooth garlicky red sauce, caesar salad with homemade garlic croutons, warm crusty Italian bread with butter, a nice barolo, and lemon cheesecake for dessert.

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Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption

Oh, I love olives so very much. It's a toss-up between a buttery cerignola or the always delicious kalamatas...

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Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption

Never met an olive I didn't love. My current favorite is picholine. It will be something else next week...

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Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption

Yes, I'm boring, but I'll pop kalamata after kalamata in my mouth just like candy (but picholines are nice too, and Gaetas... )

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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.

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Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption

young, fat, green cerignolas. and sadly those gross pimento stuffed ones in the grocery store

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Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption

I love kalamatas with pasta and manzanillas plain or chopped in soups

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Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption

feta-stuffed green olives. or black oil cured ones. I love the oil most of all- I practically drink it if it's good enough.

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Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'

Mom's from-the-Campbell's-can versions of Chicken a la King and Beef Stroganoff!

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