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Cook the Book: 'Zingerman's Guide to Better Bacon'
I love bacon because it is delicious and yummy and tasty and good. It works in sandwiches and vegetables and ice cream and breakfast plates and everything else. Who wouldn't love bacon?
Cook the Book: 'Bite-Size Desserts'
My mom's chocolate chip meringue cookies.
Cook the Book: 'What We Eat When We Eat Alone'
If I'm not eating at a restaurant, it's usually a salad of some sort, often with grilled chicken on it. Unless it's football season, at which point, I often whip up a nice batch of chili.
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Cook the Book: 'Japanese Hot Pots'
Definitely going to have to go with pho. Love it. Yum!
Cook the Book: 'Zingerman's Guide to Better Bacon'
I love bacon because it is delicious and yummy and tasty and good. It works in sandwiches and vegetables and ice cream and breakfast plates and everything else. Who wouldn't love bacon?
Cook the Book: 'Bite-Size Desserts'
My mom's chocolate chip meringue cookies.
Cook the Book: 'What We Eat When We Eat Alone'
If I'm not eating at a restaurant, it's usually a salad of some sort, often with grilled chicken on it. Unless it's football season, at which point, I often whip up a nice batch of chili.
Serious Cocktails: Gin-to-Vermouth Ratios in Martinis
My martinis are simple:
2-3oz of good gin
.5oz of good dry vermouth
Optional dash or two of orange bitters
Stirred until cold
Served in a chilled cocktail glass
Garnished with 1 or 3 olives (never 2)
Cook the Book: 'Bobby Flay's Burgers, Fries & Shakes'
CB-MOP from Mike's in Blacksburg, Va.
Cook the Book: 'Real Cajun'
Licking the beaters clean.
Cook the Book: 'Beyond the Great Wall'
I went to Wales as a very young child and have a distinct memory of the ears on Snap, Crackle, and Pop being more pointy on the Rice Krispies box than they were in the USA
Cook the Book: 'Baking Unplugged'
When I was somewhere in my single digits, I decided I wanted to make cinnamon rolls, so I found a recipe, mixed up all the ingredients, poured them in a pyrex, and let it cook. It was sometime during the baking process that it dawned on me that it might have been wise to follow the directions.
Cook the Book: 'The Great Wings Book'
Does beer count as a snack? If not, then just about anything crunchy, but usually tortilla chips and salsa or queso.
Weekend DVD Giveaway: 'Bottle Shock'
Grapes are harvested
And turned into merriment
Through love and terroir
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'American Cheeses'
Just about anything from Goat Lady Dairy.
Cook the Book: 'Into the Vietnamese Kitchen'
The closest I have to a new years eve food resolution is a goal to drink 150 new-to-me beers in 2009. (7 down, 143 to go!)
Cook the Book: Jamie at Home
Chili, though it tends to be more of a fall (or football season?) dish, it's still nice to get a blast of temperature and spice heat in the winter.
Cook the Book: 'The Bon Appétit Fast Easy Fresh Cookbook'
Chicken breast on the foreman with whatever seasonings/spices/sauces/etc. I happen to have lying around.
Cook the Book: 'How to Cook Everything, Revised Tenth Anniversary Edition'
I'm definitely a big fan of just using water instead of store-bought stock.
Cook the Book: 'Simple Italian Snacks'
Tortilla chips + queso dip of some sort. Mmm.
Cook the Book: 'The Sweeter Side of Amy's Bread'
favorite to bake is definitely standard toll house chocolate chip cookies.
Cook the Book: 'Giada's Kitchen'
my dad's marinara. nothing special about it. just nostalgia.
'Waiter Rant': The Giveaway
I had been going to the same restaurant/bar on a regular basis for about 5 or 6 years and had gotten to know the vast majority of the staff (wait staff, bartenders, barbacks, some of the kitchen staff, the owner). I arrived for breakfast one morning and they were short-staffed in the kitchen, so the lone person working front of the house wanted to get back to help out. Thus I got my only experience working front of the house (I got paid with a free breakfast!) as I got to seat a couple of people as they came in and took a drink order or two while the kitchen was caught up.
Burger Book Giveaway: 'The Hamburger: A History'
Health is of no concern with a burger in hand;
Angioplasty is something other people need.
Meat is good for you, right?
Buns and pickles and mustard too.
Utter joy comes from chowing down.
Red rivulets of ketchup drip from your chin.
Gorging yourself of a heavenly feast,
Everything else seems so unimportant.
Ready for another?
Cook the Book: 'Chocolate Epiphany'
mint chocolate chip ice cream or ben & jerry's half-baked.
Cook the Book: 'The Best Barbecue on Earth'
Too many regional varieties here in the USA to want to go elsewhere. Eastern NC, Lexington, Memphis, Texas, Kansas City, etc. etc. Yum!
Cook the Book: 'The Shun Lee Cookbook'
pizza, beer, ice cream, and bacon
Win Fuchsia Dunlop's 'Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper'
General Tso's Chicken. No question about it.
Cook the Book: 'Japanese Hot Pots'
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Cook the Book: 'Japanese Hot Pots'
I love vegetable stew!
Cook the Book: 'Japanese Hot Pots'
Mine is my awesome Chicken Tortilla Soup. I throw in all kinds of things, from fried tortilla strips to guac.
Cook the Book: 'Japanese Hot Pots'
I love minestrone soup with garlic breadsticks.. MM! I could eat that every.single.day!
Cook the Book: 'Japanese Hot Pots'
my mom's potato soup
Cook the Book: 'Japanese Hot Pots'
I'm a simple kind of lady, so my favorite soup is homemade chicken noodle. I like to make it with escarole and egg noodles. It's just so delicious.
Cook the Book: 'Japanese Hot Pots'
Currently I crave the Thai Suki after reading all this. I'm sad that I never see it in the states. My fav place in Thailand is MK restaurants. Super cold restaurant, super hot soup!
Cook the Book: 'Japanese Hot Pots'
homemade soups, starting with meat bones and ending with seasonal vegetables....the best! takes hours to simmer on the stove...but the end results are used in so many meals...the simplest being laddled into a big bowl and with a crusty bread on the side.
Cook the Book: 'Japanese Hot Pots'
When I went to stay with my aunt and uncle this past summer, my aunt's mom made potato bacon soup for dinner one night. It was delicious! :)
Cook the Book: 'Japanese Hot Pots'
Wild rice soup. A thick, creamy base with vegetables and chicken added. Top with parmesan cheese and homemade croutons.
Cook the Book: 'Japanese Hot Pots'
growing up, my mother made the best borsht. It was full of potatoes and meat and was so good and hearty.
Cook the Book: 'Japanese Hot Pots'
My favorite meal worthy soup would be homemade bean soup with ham and bacon in it. I make it with a ham bone and let it simmer for about 3 hours. Very tasty and filling. I also like my mom's homemade vegetable soup with fresh veggies from the garden! Mmm good!
Cook the Book: 'Japanese Hot Pots'
My mother made a hearty chicken noodle soup with lots of chicken and vegetables. garrettsambo@aol.com
Cook the Book: 'Japanese Hot Pots'
My Momma liked to make big ol pots of soups and stews. All us kids and our kids would come over and eat. Sometimes she'd be creative and add different things. My Daddy would smell it and come in and ask what she was cooking. She would tell him she was making "stuff". It was funny. She was a great cook.
Cook the Book: 'Japanese Hot Pots'
I love a good Colombian sancocho with lots of garlic and cumin!
Cook the Book: 'Japanese Hot Pots'
Nothing beats a rich, hearty samgyetang (Korean chicken stew made with ginseng, medicinal herbs and a tender guinea hen stuffed with sticky rice and plump red jujubes).
Cook the Book: 'Japanese Hot Pots'
My fav. meal worth soup is a big bowl of old fashioned home made chicken stew with veggies
Cook the Book: 'Japanese Hot Pots'
I love Tuscan white bean soup.
Cook the Book: 'Japanese Hot Pots'
I love to make a Korean soup made with fresh chicken cooked in water and spiced with plenty of grated fresh ginger. The chicken is shredded, and a cup or two of cooked rice is added to the broth and cooked until the soup has the consistency of "chowder." Serve in Oriental bowls and garnished with sliced green onions and Korean sesame salt. Delish, and very healing if you are suffering from respiratory "flu."
Cook the Book: 'Japanese Hot Pots'
a really good chili
Cook the Book: 'Japanese Hot Pots'
I'd have to say Split Pea and Lobster Bisque, my favorites! Thank you!
Cook the Book: 'Japanese Hot Pots'
A nice, warm bowl of beef or chicken curry (Japanese-style) cooked with just the right amount of veggies. It's not quite soup but I purposely thin it out so that it has that soupy feel to it. Warms you up and sticks with you all day plus leaves your house smelling wonderful for days. :)
Cook the Book: 'Japanese Hot Pots'
We make a mean minestrone!
Cook the Book: 'Japanese Hot Pots'
My favorite meal worthy soup is my Salmon Chowder. It has bacon, onions, celery, carrots, potatoes, corn and salmon in a creamy chowder base. Add a loaf of garlic bread & you have a spectacular meal!
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Definitely going to have to go with pho. Love it. Yum!