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Cook the Book: 'What We Eat When We Eat Alone'

I live alone, so I eat alone most of the time. I really like the frozen fish that comes individually packed because I can take it out of the freezer the night before or even that morning and I don't have to worry about mediocre leftovers. I also like eating breakfast foods for dinner since making up a nice omelet is a quick and easy meal.

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Cook the Book: '100 Best Vegetarian Recipes'

My favorite meatless meal is a supposedly greek dish called Kolsun, which is basically spinach stuffed in a pastry. I have never been able to find a recipe like it though. It is spinach (mixed with a little something extra) stuffed into an oily pastry dough. The edges are crimped and then baked till the edges are golden brown. It is actually my favorite meal, but that is probably partially due to the fact my mother made it only rarely during the year. I have figured out how to make it myself now :)

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Watch It with Us: 'The Next Food Network Star' Season 5 Finale

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I have seen Will Work for Food and it is more like a "How its Made" for food instead of a cooking show. I like that kind of show though so I usually DVR new episodes.

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Cook the Book: 'What We Eat When We Eat Alone'

I live alone, so I eat alone most of the time. I really like the frozen fish that comes individually packed because I can take it out of the freezer the night before or even that morning and I don't have to worry about mediocre leftovers. I also like eating breakfast foods for dinner since making up a nice omelet is a quick and easy meal.

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Cook the Book: '100 Best Vegetarian Recipes'

My favorite meatless meal is a supposedly greek dish called Kolsun, which is basically spinach stuffed in a pastry. I have never been able to find a recipe like it though. It is spinach (mixed with a little something extra) stuffed into an oily pastry dough. The edges are crimped and then baked till the edges are golden brown. It is actually my favorite meal, but that is probably partially due to the fact my mother made it only rarely during the year. I have figured out how to make it myself now :)

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Watch It with Us: 'The Next Food Network Star' Season 5 Finale

@Erin Zimmer

I have seen Will Work for Food and it is more like a "How its Made" for food instead of a cooking show. I like that kind of show though so I usually DVR new episodes.

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Watch It with Us: 'The Next Food Network Star' Season 5 Finale

I think Melissa is going to win. She has come so far since the beginning of the show and she is much easier to relate to for many people because she has been a working mom that can show how to get a good meal on the table.

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

My favorite summer recipe is a cold veggie pizza. Not with tomato sauce and stuff, but a croissant roll crust with a cream cheese dill spread on the crust and then broccoli and cauliflower and whatever other veggies you can get cut up small. Finished up with a nice bit of cheddar cheese on top.

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Video: How to Peel a Banana Like a Monkey

I have been peeling my bananas like this for just the last few years. I saw my department director open a banana like that one day and I asked why. He just told me it was a lot easier. I tried it on my next banana and havn't struggled to open it from the stem end again since. I even have my dad converted to the monkey method too! I have to take the little black bit off too though, it isn't good.

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

I have always been a big fan of mushroom and swiss burgers, so I ordered them a lot when I was little. I don't remember where this was or how old I was, but the first time I was ever asked how I wanted my burger cooked I said medium since that is how my dad always got his steaks cooked. My parents said to make it well done and I protested. The waitress told me to listen to my parents and then proceeded to order it medium for me. It wasn't all that special, but it was the juiciest burger I had ever had since my dad usually overcooked burgers and smashed the juice out of them. Needless to say, when I cook burgers now, I cook them the way I like them, medium!

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Taco Bell's Volcano Taco with Lava Sauce Returns to Menus Nationwide

I like the fire taco plenty, though it really isn't spicy at all to me. I have to add a fire sauce packet per taco just get get some heat. That being said, the volcano taco is still good. The burrito on the other hand has that bad taco bell rice in it so I won't order that ever.

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Cook the Book: 'Seven Fires'

I love Pupusas, though I have only had them once.

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Cook the Book: 'Modern Spice'

Well, I'd like to be able to cook all types of cuisine at home, but if had to pick a favorite, it'd be Chinese food. That is mostly due to the fact that I havn't really been exposed to many "exotic" cuisines like Indian or thai.

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Cook the Book: 'Rustic Fruit Desserts'

My favorite fruit based desert is cherry cobbler. The best way to have it though is like my dad used to make it when I was a little kid and a boy scout. It was made in a cast iron dutch oven that was heated with coals from our campfire. Something about being camping always made the food taste better for some reason.

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Cook the Book: 'Endangered Recipes' by Lari Robling

most of my favorite food memories are from when we used to go camping. I don't know why, but everything always used to taste better when camping. I think my favorite food memory was the first time my dad cooked turkey on a grill (while camping of course). Not only was I amazed that you could cook a turkey anywhere but the oven, it was also the best turkey that I had ever had.

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Cook the Book: 'Bottega Favorita' by Frank Stitt

Well I have only actually made pasta at home once, and by chance that was just last night! It was just your standard spaghetti, but it is good. The next pasta I am going to make is a home made cheese ravioli. Yum! Thanks for the giveaway!

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Cook the Book: 'Serious Barbecue' by Adam Perry Lang

I don't make it often, but I am always amazed at how well turkeys turn out on the grill whenever I make them. Just baste it with an herbed oil and use indirect heat. It is awesome.

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Cook the Book: 'Tacos'

I don't really have an exciting taco experience, but I never like tacos much outside of home because my mother has always made her own special taco meat recipe that makes tacos so much more enjoyable. Thanks for the giveaway!

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World's Largest Private Lean Cuisine Collection?

I'll admit I enjoy the occasional frozen dinner, but how can they even stand eating that many dinners in a year? I really hope that they rotate the dinners so that they don't end up with 2 year old dinners at the bottom, because even frozen dinners deminish in quality over time no matter how many preservatives it is made with.

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Cook the Book: 'Real Cajun'

my fondest food memories are pretty much all from when we used to go camping. For some reason, everything always seemed to taste best when we were camping. One of the best camping dishes was beef stew cooked in a cast iron dutch oven with apple cobbler cooked in a different dutchoven

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Cook the Book: 'The Asian Grill'

About the worst thing I did was one time I put some chicken on the grill and then went inside to let it cook. I sat down and proceeded to fall asleep and slept for about 3 hours. I woke up and could smell the burned chicken outside. The chicken was no longer recognizable, it looked like a grill full of hockey pucks almost.

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Cook the Book: 'Urban Italian'

I'm not sure if this is exactly a twist, but it was new for me. I ordered vegetable lasagna for our employee recognition dinner last year. I was expecting a standard style lasagna with red sauce except it had veggies instead of pasta. What I got instead was roasted vegetables layered with tons of ricotta cheese (mixed with some other cheese too I think) and an amazing white sauce of some sort. I'm not really sure what was in the white sauce, but it was the best lasagna (veggie or meat) I have ever had. Oh and the portion size was so big that I couldn't even actually finish it.

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Making Your Own Bagels

well I printed out the recipe, but I don't know that I'll ever find the malted barley flour. That, and I don't know if I will feel like a 2 day bagel project either.

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Cook the Book: 'Ten'

When I first got my own place, I really wanted to have cream cheese wontons at like midnight. I actually went to a 24hour superstore, but all the ingredients I thought maybe they used along with a bunch of oil, cooking utensils, and a deep fryer (I didn't own any of that stuff yet). I ended up trying a few different combinations of ingredients and never did find the perfect combo. Oh and that was my first time using wonton wrappers too so I no idea how to use or seal them at first. All in all, I spent WAY too much money for so-so wontons that I could have gotten just fine if I could have waited 12 hours.

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Cook the Book: 'Kneadlessly Simple'

I have tried making yeast bread before but it usually doesn't turn out as well as I hope. It is usually too dense. I would love to win this cookbook so I could do better with yeast bread. The only "bread" that I successfully make is pumpkin bread right now.

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Cook the Book: 'On the Line'

Well lets see, I love all seafood so that's a tough question. About the only seafood I ever prepare are breaded shrimp from the freezer though since it is either too hard to find good seafood around here or I am too cheap to buy it. Everything is fair game though when I go out to eat.

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Cook the Book: 'Almost Meatless'

I always love eggplant Parmesan, but my favorite meatless dish is called some recipe called Kolsun. It is basically just spinach in an oily pastry. It is simple, but I love it! Thanks for the giveaway.

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Thanksgiving Foods We Love to Hate

I love all of those things. I don't have them anymore at my thanksgiving table, but if I'm served (any and all of it!) somewhere, I go for it and bask in nostalgia for days gone by with Nana and the whole fam!

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Thanksgiving Foods We Love to Hate

@ mr guy- I agree, the brining doesn't do much for me either. I've done it the past two years, and if you ask me it's a big pain in the ass for little results. Expensive too.

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Thanksgiving Foods We Love to Hate

Cans of thick slop and sludge never get anywhere near my cooking. As a matter of fact, Campbell's cream "soup" line is single handedly responsible for making crock pots the biggest laugh in the kitchen. (The crock pot was later de-throned by Sandra Lee as the biggest laugh in the kitchen - ironically a chronic user of cream soups.)

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Thanksgiving Foods We Love to Hate

Don't be hating on me, but Campbell's creamy onion soup is far superior to use in casseroles versus the cream of mushroom. When I took over Thanksgiving duty from my MIL, that marshmallow sweet potato monstrosity was banned from my menu. As well as the canned cranberry "sauce", I make my own SF version from the real cranberries from the produce section.

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Thanksgiving Foods We Love to Hate

Everything was fair game until you got to the marshmallows.

Marshmallows aren't Thanksgiving food. They're candy.

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Cook the Book: 'What We Eat When We Eat Alone'

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Cook the Book: 'What We Eat When We Eat Alone'

I like quesadillas when I'm alone. I'll add a little shredded chicken breast, salsa and cheese.

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Cook the Book: 'What We Eat When We Eat Alone'

Miscellaneous egg dishes, which can be adjusted depending on how hungry you are (e.g., scrabled eggs, eggs over easy, egg salad, etc.)

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Cook the Book: 'What We Eat When We Eat Alone'

Scrambled egg on a bowl of miso soup drizzled with hot sesame oil. At other times: hot dogs, mustard and deli dills with a glass of wine.

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Cook the Book: 'What We Eat When We Eat Alone'

Salad sandwiches. Really, really big ones, with all the different salads that I normally feel guilty about taking so long to prepare. God they are good!

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Cook the Book: 'What We Eat When We Eat Alone'

eggs with veggies and cheese in a homemade tortilla!

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Cook the Book: 'What We Eat When We Eat Alone'

I like nilla wafers in French onion dip. I also like maple syrup in beef stew but once that's in it's not as obvious as the cookies in dip.

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Cook the Book: 'What We Eat When We Eat Alone'

When I eat alone I usually make toast and add tuna with a slice of tomato and then melt cheese on top. Yum

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Cook the Book: 'What We Eat When We Eat Alone'

I add cheese to everything and tend to ignore signs that food has gone bad like mold... blame the economy! I'm a poor recent college graduate :)

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Cook the Book: 'What We Eat When We Eat Alone'

I usually make myself a big salad with nuts and berries in it!

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