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The Ten Most Recent Comments By mchow

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Cook the Book: Cowgirl Cuisine

vietnamese style chicken noodle soup with the broad rice noodles, bean sprouts, a mixture of slice onions, chopped scallions and cilantro to top the dish off, shredded chicken by hand and a ladle of hot chicken broth over it all.

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Cook the Book: Lidia's Italy

garlic baked chicken with roasted yukon gold potatoes

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Cook the Book: The Cornbread Gospels

My friend makes a good cornbread

From Ed Levine Eats

Ticket Giveaway: Japanese Food and Drink Demo and Tasting

besides the sashimi & sushi, it would have to be the curry tonkatsu over rice

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Cook the Book: The Sweet Melissa Baking Book

As long as it has chocolate as one of the main ingredients- like a chocolate covered chocolate chip cannoli

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Eat This, Not That: The Worst Foods in America

I think this books targets what main stream America is, where unfortunately fast food restuarant chains rule. Ever see the movie or read the book Fast Food Nation- makes you think twice about what you're eating. The book is a good quick flip picture book and there is a section where it discuss package foods- bottom line portion control and read the food labels.

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Cook the Book: Nigella Express

Make 2 meals in 1- bake chicken is great because you can make a chicken salad with the left over meat.

From Talk

What should I make from Bittman's "How to cook everything..."?

My brother gave me his book because he didn't want it. I haven't thumb through the pages yet- kind of overwhelmed by the text book size. I wish there were pictures in this book. I'm usually inspired by the picture first and the then look into the receipe further.

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Around the World in 80 Dinners'

Singapore- I love their wide variety of asian food like chili crab and all the street hawkers
Italy- I love italian food, would love to go for a truffle hunt!
France- No matter how many times I go, I'm always amazed by how good their food looks and taste.

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Spumoni: Love It or Leave It?

I love it! I use to live like 5 minutes away from L&B. Now I get a pint to go.

Responses to Comments by mchow

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Cook the Book: Cowgirl Cuisine

I love my mom's fried chicken and mashed potatoes meal.

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Cook the Book: Cowgirl Cuisine

Mom's blueberry buckle fresh out of the oven. There is no better weekend treat!

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Cook the Book: Cowgirl Cuisine

One of my most favorite memories was a recurring one where we would meet for an occassional 'midnight snack'.

Mind you, this was before microwaves were as commonplace as refrigerators, we would periodically get up in the dark of night for a good old fashioned BLT. We worked in the kitchen as though we were spys...quietly getting the old, heavy, skillet out of the pantry...tearing lettuce under gently running water hoping the pipes wouldn't clank...and slicing up some fresh tomatoes while keeping an eye on the toaster to catch it before it 'popped' so it wouldn't wake up anyone else in the house.

This was my first Mother's Day without her. She is certainly missed, but the magnificent memories will remain forever.

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Cook the Book: Cowgirl Cuisine

Mom makes the chocolate fudge icing that you can literaly peel off of the cake and eat it like candy!

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Cook the Book: Cowgirl Cuisine

turnip cakes

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Cook the Book: Cowgirl Cuisine

My mother prepared a lot of memorable meals, as she is a great cook. The comfort foods - brisket, chicken soup, stuffed grape leaves, vats of hummous - definitely stand out. But the most memorable were the ones she DIDN'T cook, when she thought we latchkey kids (the oldest in junior high at the time) could handle some simple cooking on our own and left a half-ound of hamburder or a few pieces of chicken to our devices. Mom had shown us the basics of cooking, how to read a cookbook, and so forth. While we could have done basic stuff, I remember Spanish rice, mini-cheeseburgers on homemade buns from a bisquit recipe, and stir-fried beef with cucumbers and some of our tested recipes. It gave us the skills and confidence to cook once we left home - and the knowledge of important steps like "clean as you go" and dealing with greasy pans.

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Cook the Book: Cowgirl Cuisine

my mother made great grilled cheese sandwiches.

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Cook the Book: Cowgirl Cuisine

My favorite foods on my birthday when I was little: fried chicken (for once I got the wishbone!), yellow squash & onions, green beans, mashed potatoes with cream gravy, yellow cake with chocolate fudge icing and pecans on top, and sweet tea, of course. Sigh.

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Cook the Book: Cowgirl Cuisine

I loved it most and have super fond memories of salmon cakes over pasta with marinara. YUMMY!

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Cook the Book: Cowgirl Cuisine

When I was little my mom would make me grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup. It was the best!