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brussels sprouts with bacon, pumpkin creme brulee

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Cook the Book: 'Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating'

I am on a constant quest to eat less meat. At most, we eat meat once a day with dinner, but often not at all. It's honestly not that difficult, and it definitely saves money. When we do eat meat, we mostly purchase organic, free-range products; since these are more expensive, we buy less. I also think a small amount of meat adds up to a lot of flavor; bacon is a prime example of this (as my husband says, one of the keys to eating less meat is more bacon). Recently, my goal has been to eat more grains than my daily cup of oatmeal in the morning. There are so many great grains out there, which are delicious as well as very nutritious. To this end, we were recently gifted with a pressure cooker, which makes it even easier. I am also a huge fan of eggs, for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

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What food(s) did you love as a kid and now can't stand?

spaghettios! along with lucky charms, cool ranch doritos, chicken mcnuggets, velveeta, koolaid, kraft cheese slices..............

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Win a Free Organic D'Artagnan Turkey

brussels sprouts with bacon, pumpkin creme brulee

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Cook the Book: 'Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating'

I am on a constant quest to eat less meat. At most, we eat meat once a day with dinner, but often not at all. It's honestly not that difficult, and it definitely saves money. When we do eat meat, we mostly purchase organic, free-range products; since these are more expensive, we buy less. I also think a small amount of meat adds up to a lot of flavor; bacon is a prime example of this (as my husband says, one of the keys to eating less meat is more bacon). Recently, my goal has been to eat more grains than my daily cup of oatmeal in the morning. There are so many great grains out there, which are delicious as well as very nutritious. To this end, we were recently gifted with a pressure cooker, which makes it even easier. I am also a huge fan of eggs, for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

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What food(s) did you love as a kid and now can't stand?

spaghettios! along with lucky charms, cool ranch doritos, chicken mcnuggets, velveeta, koolaid, kraft cheese slices..............

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Favorite Cheap Homemade Meal?

thai peanut noodles
spaghetti with arabiatta sauce
lentils with balsamic vinegar, mustard
pierogi
cheese or squash filled ravioli
eggs! (quicke, cheese souffle, omelet)

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What was the best thing you ate in '08?

Homemade ravioli, pulled pork, everything I ate in paris, raclette in switzerland...most memorable dessert was the anise roulade with figs from Gourmet.

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Cook the Book: 'Into the Vietnamese Kitchen'

Cook more grains, learn different methods of preserving foods, waste less!

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It's not worth it to make _______ when I could just buy it

It truly depends on how good you can cook/bake it yourself, and how much you enjoy doing so. I buy bakery bread (sourdough, brioche, ciabatta), yogurt, eat sushi/japanese food out. I like to roast my own pumpkin for pie, and I do like to make my own puff pastry.

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Cook the Book: 'Martha Stewart's Cooking School'

Piecrust - it's the best! I love many, many others of her recipes, so many that i couldn't list them all!

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Best produce ever

Tie - resh strawberries from my in-laws garden, and wild strawberries from my grandmother's field. Amazing!

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The perfect BLT

This sandwich absolutely requires only the best ingredients, and can only be eaten during tomato season. I prefer homemade mayo, on toasted brioche with arugula, and applewood bacon.

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How was your school's hot lunch?

Awful! I can't understand how my mother allowed me to eat that stuff, or how it was allowed to be served to children. That being said, I remember it costing something like $1/day. We had shepherd's pie (after having mashed potatos, corn and some sort of ground meat earlier in the week), cheese pizza, some sort of meat sandwich with gravy on top, cheeseburger, tater tots. The rolls were okay, and the ice cream cups.

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What Are Your Recipe Deal Breakers?

I don't have deal-breakers as much as there are things I do my own way in spite of what the recipe says. I read the entire recipe, and then re-interpret depending on my time/the purpose of the meal (i.e. dinner for 2 after a long work day, or an occasion). James Peterson and Thomas Keller both provide lengthy, specific recipes; I definitely caramelize my onions for as long as Keller says (which takes longer than the hours he indicates to get them to be the color he describes).

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MOST favorite cookbook in collection

The Gourmet Cookbook is my no-fail, go-to cookbook. Otherwise, it changes daily: at the moment I like Thomas Keller's Bouchon, and James Peterson.

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What do you bring to lunch to eat at your desk?

Leftovers! Making a big pot of soup on the weekend is always a good idea. I also keep dried fruit/nuts in my desk at work for snacks.

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Help me with my weekday dinners

Salads and sandwiches can be very creative, and quick. All you need is a great loaf of crusty bread, and whatever toppings appeal to you/your family - I would try tapenade, caramelized onions (can be made in advance, and last all week), a favorite cheese, homemade mayo, proscuitto, pesto. Also, you can grill sandwiches/make panini. Foro salads you could throw in any canned/bottled ingredients you love, such as roasted red peppers, tuna, capers, beans, beets, etc.

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To dream the impossible coffee dream...I want it all

I don't think a grind and brew combination is a good one. We had one for years, and when we bought a burr grinder it revolutionized our coffee making in all regards - espresso, french-press, drip, etc. Check out wholelattelove.com for reviews on machines - you can also purchase refurbished ones. We love our Gaggia Baby D for espresso/capuccino drinks, which we bought refurbished.

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Cook the Book: Nigella Express

Cook/do a lot of prep work on the weekend! I love to make a big pot of beans, pasta sauce, or soup which can be eaten for lunch all week. I also like to prepare home made things that can be added to things, such as caramelized onions, tapenade, pesto, etc.

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Know of a good food processor?

I have a big/wide-mouth kitchenaid and I love it. I almost bought a cuisinart, but my mom recently bought one that broke not long after purchase.

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Cook the Book: 'My Last Supper'

I would eat with my husband, and we would eat his family recipe for homemade ravioli; for dessert we would have paris brest.

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Food Podcasts: Do You Listen? What's Your Favorite?

All of NPRs food-related podcasts are great. Check out gourmet.com - the website is redesigned, and excellent.

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Win a Free Organic D'Artagnan Turkey

Congrats to our winner mistressnoodle, and thanks to everyone who entered! The winner has been notified and the Contest Winners page has been updated.

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Wild mushroom stuffing....now all I need is a free turkey!

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i can haz chocolate passion fruit bread pudding?

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James Beard's Roast turkey!!! First off, the older folks will know who James Beard is, Secondly, It has Bacon and Cognac. Those are Great Thanksgiving staples.

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roasted sweet potato - very nostalgic, my mom used to give them to us first thing to stave off our appetites

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Potato leek au gratin sounds delicious. I think I'll give that a try some day after our already over-stocked Thanksgiving dinner.

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need to add cranberry sauce, pumpkin and apple pies and turkey cupcakes for the grands. think maybe that should do it with the M&M cookies my daughter is baking.

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I think I'm going to try the Potato Leek Au Gratin. Such a nice combination and it would look beautiful on the table.

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THE CIDER GLAZED SWEET POTATOES SOUND GREAT!

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Those braised and glazed brussel sprouts are going on my menu, for sure. Maybe with some cauliflower thrown in, too.

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I have to try the recipe for Cook's Illustrated's Roasted Brined Turkey.

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