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Most frequently used: definitely garlic, even if it's just a little bit. I love to cook dishes from various cultures and garlic is often the common thread.

Always goes bad before I use it all: Spices that you just need for one recipe. By the time I get to use the rest of the bottle, they'll be stale and I'll want to buy a fresh batch. Examples include almost any Indian spice- I love them, but just don't need that much!

llarabyth at 1:28PM on 11/06/08

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Cook the Book: 'Chocolate Epiphany'

I would really want to try the Vosges chocolate with bacon!

llarabyth at 1:32PM on 08/25/08

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Cook the Book: Red-Cooked Beef Short Ribs

Pizza and a Coke!

llarabyth at 12:12PM on 08/18/08

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Cook the Book: Serves One

Peanut butter and honey on a tortilla!

llarabyth at 11:29PM on 07/08/08

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Mastering Knife Skills: Can a Book Make the Cut?

I just purchased "Knife Skills Illustrated" by Peter Hertzmann. I am a culinary student and I wanted a guide that I could refer to at home. So far it's been worth the price (under $20 on Amazon right now) for its illustrations on how to chop an onion. It's amazing how many things I was doing wrong. Practice is definitely key, but it is invaluable to me to have something to refer to.

llarabyth at 12:26PM on 07/07/08

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Cook the Book: Grill Every Day

I love a good fruit salad to offset the salty barbecue tastes.

llarabyth at 3:55PM on 06/23/08

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Cook the Book: 'Top Chef'

Roasted red pepper Hummus or baba ghanoush, homemade flatbread if time permits.

llarabyth at 10:20PM on 05/30/08

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'

i completely botched a pineapple upside down cake. too much butter and too much pineapple led to a buttery pineapple mess... too bad cause i know its a good recipe.

hookrilla at 1:53PM on 10/05/09

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'

I don't bake, baking scares me. One time in high school I decided to overcome this fear and suprise my mother with a pan of brownies. I hate nuts in my desserts, but she loves them so I figured I'd take one for the team and throw in the bag of walnut pieces I found in the back of the pantry. Well, she takes one bite and makes this face because apparently the nuts were rotten and the whole pan of brownies was ruined. I still don't trust nuts in baked goods and haven't thought twice about baking something since then.

Vanderbecca at 1:34PM on 10/05/09

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Cook the Book: 'Japanese Hot Pots'

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Caroline Russock at 12:17PM on 10/05/09

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Cook the Book: 'Japanese Hot Pots'

I love vegetable stew!

lilyk at 12:02PM on 10/05/09

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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.

cowleyh at 11:49AM on 10/05/09

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Cook the Book: 'Japanese Hot Pots'

I love minestrone soup with garlic breadsticks.. MM! I could eat that every.single.day!

xoeskie at 11:41AM on 10/05/09

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Cook the Book: 'Japanese Hot Pots'

my mom's potato soup

07violet at 11:18AM on 10/05/09

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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.

Alexandria at 11:18AM on 10/05/09

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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!

Hungry Moo at 11:01AM on 10/05/09

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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.

C Chin at 10:59AM on 10/05/09

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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! :)

sbshortie at 10:58AM on 10/05/09

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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.

hungrylikethewolf at 10:50AM on 10/05/09

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'

My most recent baking mistake: Making oatmeal chocolate chip cookies and forgetting the oatmeal. It took an embarrassingly long time to figure out what was missing!
Not baking, per say, but the olive oil story reminded me of a time when I tried to make Annie's mac and cheese without butter. I substituted EVOO instead thinking it would taste the same (stupid). It was hands down the most disgusting pasta I've ever had.

Ltizzle at 10:38AM on 10/05/09

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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.

gervitsd at 10:18AM on 10/05/09

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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!

kngmckellar at 10:17AM on 10/05/09

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Cook the Book: 'Japanese Hot Pots'

My mother made a hearty chicken noodle soup with lots of chicken and vegetables. garrettsambo@aol.com

garrettsambo at 9:43AM on 10/05/09

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'

Cakes and dogs--never a good combination. How many of us have left the celebratory creation just a tad too close to the edge of the counter, only to come home from the big meal out, mouths set for sugar, to discover that fido has once again proven his real reason for being, i.e., to grab all the available food whenever you're not looking?

lawandmusic at 9:04AM on 10/05/09

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'

French Bread. It never rose, it smelled weird and ended up baking into a puddle. Ate it anyway.

snackpig at 9:00AM on 10/05/09

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'

Anything I bake is probably a disaster, but that I why I let my wife do all the baking.

feep at 8:29AM on 10/05/09

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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.

missybeetoo at 7:49AM on 10/05/09

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Cook the Book: 'Japanese Hot Pots'

I love a good Colombian sancocho with lots of garlic and cumin!

decadent at 4:20AM on 10/05/09

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'

We ordered a store-bought cake when my mom received her masters degree in writing. As we were putting the candles on, we realized it read "Congrulations!". We decided the misspelling was highly appropriate for the celebration...

sbcthemuse at 2:46AM on 10/05/09

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Cook the Book: 'Japanese Hot Pots'

Minestrone :)

gkran at 2:19AM on 10/05/09

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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).

miette at 2:15AM on 10/05/09

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