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Website: http://mapleberry.blogspot.com

Location: Maplewood, NJ

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Favorite foods: All sorts of starches - pastas, breads, rice, potatoes Roasted vegetables Braised short ribs Mojitos! Caipirinhas! Balvenie Portwood 21 year-old Single Malt Scotch Whiskey

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The Ten Most Recent Comments By curmudgeon

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Cheap(er) Drinks: Tips For Enjoyable Drinking Without Going Broke

Hey, if you're just looking for neutral spirits (and that's really all vodka is, anyway), buy a liter of Everclear, add a liter of distilled water, and you've got yourself 2 liters of (in effect) 95 proof vodka for under $20. Good for mixing, if not for sipping.

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Cook the Book: The Cornbread Gospels

My current fave is the cornbread at Indigo Smoke, a BBQ joint in Maplewood NJ

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Cook the Book: The Sweet Melissa Baking Book

A tie - warm flourless chocolate cake, and Mexican wedding cookies

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Serious Easter Artisanal Chocolate Egg Giveaway

Number one Passover food is the Hillel sandwich: Charoset and chrain between two pieces of matzoh

But I also have a soft spot for chocolate-covered matzoh.

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Cook the Book: 'Panini Express'

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Valentine's Day Chocolate Giveaway

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Valentine's Day Chocolate Giveaway

Dark.

Seriously, why even include white "chocolate," since it's not, strictly speaking, chocolate at all?

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Cook the Book: 'Chocolate Holidays'

In any possible way. But I'm especially thankful for any that's dark and bittersweet. As for white "chocolate," keep it far, far away!

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Cocktails: Manhattan

Ahem ...
I could quuiblle with the proportions, but that IS just quibbling.

On the other hand, you need to know:
A Manhattan is made with RYE, not bourbon

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Cook the Book: 'The Tex-Mex Cookbook'

Buffalo wings
nachos
chips w/salsa and/or guacamole

Responses to Comments by curmudgeon

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Cook the Book: The Cornbread Gospels

Thanks for participating and congratulations to our winners:

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Please check your email for more information on how to claim your book.

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Cheap(er) Drinks: Tips For Enjoyable Drinking Without Going Broke

Sometimes you can find a good deal on your favorite spirit by checking listed sales at liquorliker.com. It might be worth a stop at a store that's a bit out of your way, if you've got several bottles to buy, and you're saving $5-6 on each bottle.

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Cook the Book: The Cornbread Gospels

Homemade is the best!

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Cook the Book: The Cornbread Gospels

I have to admit, mine is the best I've eaten. I just use a yellow cornbread mix (usually Martha White), add Pace's Picante Sauce, grated cheddar cheese and whole kernal corn. Extra cheese goes on top. Yuuummmy! For restaurant cornbread, it has to be Mama's Daughter's Diner in Lewisville, Texas.

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Cook the Book: The Cornbread Gospels

I had the most amazing cornbread at Marie Callendar's restaurant in Oklahoma City.

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Cook the Book: The Cornbread Gospels

Jiffy Mix made in a preheated cast iron skillet, greased with some bacon drippings. I love the crusty brown portion! Gotta eat it with real BUTTER! Thanks for the opportunity to participate in this giveaway!

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Cook the Book: The Cornbread Gospels

My favorite cornbread was my mother's. She started it in a cast iron skillet over a flame then finished it in the oven. Sometimes she added cracklins. Awesome!

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Cook the Book: The Cornbread Gospels

My favorite was my mother's homemade cornbread. She's gone now...sure wish I'd gotten her recipe.

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Cook the Book: The Cornbread Gospels

I always use the cornbread recipe from the Fanny Farmer cookbook.

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Cook the Book: The Cornbread Gospels

Both my husband and I love corn bread, this looks like a great book, it's the first I have heard of it. Oh and of course I make it the best!