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Mixed Review: Sprinkles Pumpkin Cupcake Mix
@j - thanks for the link to the pumpkin cupcake recipe. I just made a batch and they're a huge hit. The maple cream cheese frosting is a winner too. Thanks!,
Special Halloween Meal?
Good one, @dmcavanagh. I was thinking the same thing.
I've made pumpkin soup, all cute in little hollowed-out pumpkins - but really, all everyone wanted was to head out trick or treating.
Homemade Kahlua
Thanks Sadiepix. Good ideas about the brown sugar and vanilla. I'll start experimenting!
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Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Spaghetti and meatballs, garlic bread, a big green salad - a perfect family dinner.
Mixed Review: Sprinkles Pumpkin Cupcake Mix
@j - thanks for the link to the pumpkin cupcake recipe. I just made a batch and they're a huge hit. The maple cream cheese frosting is a winner too. Thanks!,
Special Halloween Meal?
Good one, @dmcavanagh. I was thinking the same thing.
I've made pumpkin soup, all cute in little hollowed-out pumpkins - but really, all everyone wanted was to head out trick or treating.
Homemade Kahlua
Thanks Sadiepix. Good ideas about the brown sugar and vanilla. I'll start experimenting!
Cook the Book: 'The Craft of Baking'
The first time I had creme brulee - what an amazing combination of hot and cold, crisp and creamy - yum.
Cook the Book: 'Dishing Up Vermont'
California strawberries from a farm stand
Mario Batali's Jarred Pasta Sauces
I'm with the Rao's bottled sauce fans, although its a splurge. Has anyone tried the recipe at the Rao's website? Is it as good as the ready-made stuff? I might go for the hour's simmering if it can save me some $$s (Rao's Marinara is $9+ locally, but definitely a quick 'n' easy weeknight pasta solution.)
Cook the Book: '100 Best Vegetarian Recipes'
Farfalle with a sauce of ground toasted walnuts, garlic, chopped herbs, a little cream and a little pasta water to loosen it up, and lots for Parmegiano of course!
The Term 'Housemade' Is the New 'Homemade'
I see what everyone's saying, but nah. For me, "housemade" isn't even a word, and on menus it reads as pompous and affected. Plus I don't really believe it - is that mayo actually whipped up from eggs and oil in the restaurant kitchen? Doubt it. But maybe there's a fun thread in pretentious menu language??
The Term 'Housemade' Is the New 'Homemade'
Just more foodie pretentiousness, like "dipping sauce" instead of dip, or "smashed potoates" instead of mashed, or "tablescape" instead of - I don't even know what. Its annoying, cut it out.
help: great eats near pismo beach ?
I second Buffy's suggestion, the Cracked Crab. Amazing crab bisque, and group-friendly 'buckets' of crab legs etc for the table. Also on Price Street are Guiseppes and Rosas, both good Italian places. Have fun!
Cook the Book: 'Tacos'
There was a great taco place, El Caminero, in my neighborhood in Mexico City. My best meal there was when I discovered you could get their wonderful carne asada tacos and grilled spring onions to go! The tacos were always brilliant, but it wasn't the kind of place a young gringa could eat on her own after work. So take-out was perfect. Still miss those fresh tortillas.
Cook the Book: ''Wichcraft'
Red-oak grilled Santa Maria style tri-tip, sliced thin on a crusty sourdough roll
No Beets Will Grow in the White House's Organic Vegetable Garden?
Yay for the Presidential veggie garden. Beets make me gag - @cooklocal may be right, maybe its a genetic thing. But there's plenty of other good stuff to plant in DC, and don't forget the fresh local goodies at the Eastern Market and elsewhere.
$29.95 for America's Test Kitchen website?
Thanks guys, esp. @sailordave. I'm still snickering. Now about that refund.....
Cafe Tacuba chicken enchiladas?
Thanks for the links, especially @intheyearofthepig's copy of the Bayless recipe. I did search for it, but managed not to turn it up. Enchiladas this weekend!!
Sunday Brunch: The Best Silver Dollar Pancakes Ever
The Breakfast Book is brilliant. Try the Apple Pancake - my book's spine is cracked at that recipe after years of making it. But you won't go wrong with anything in that book, for breakfast or whenever.
Bread Baking Books
Yes, try the Bread Bible. Some the recipes look intimidatingly long, but once you read through them once or twice its clear that the individual steps aren't hard, and most of the time required is just for proofing - no effort on the baker's part. Her basic white sandwich bread can't be beat for a kid-friendly alternative to chemically supermarket loaves.
Cook the Book: 'Kneadlessly Simple'
Just a honest loaf of white sandwich bread - perfect for kid lunches and morning toast
Cook the Book: The Essence of Chocolate
Hot chocolate from Angelina's in Paris
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'American Cheeses'
A sharp New York State cheddar
Seriously Delicious Holiday Food Giveaway: Russ & Daughters
Bagels and lox, NYC on a plate
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Two Peter Luger Steaks
Filet mignon for me
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Spaghetti with meatballs and chunks of Italian sausage in a smooth garlicky red sauce, caesar salad with homemade garlic croutons, warm crusty Italian bread with butter, a nice barolo, and lemon cheesecake for dessert.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
fajitas, hands down.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Layer sauerkraut in a casserole dish, place pork chops on top and season (I use cracked black pepper, garlic powder and smoked paprika), cover with lid or seal with foil, bake in 400 degree oven for 45 minutes. I like to make mashed potatoes with it, but have also just done steamed veggies on the side.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Grandy's roast beef, carrots, and mashed potatoes
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Mom's from-the-Campbell's-can versions of Chicken a la King and Beef Stroganoff!
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Mom's homemade lasagna, bread, and apple pie.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Coming from a Turkish household, my favorite family dinner is mercimek çorbasi (lentil soup) with köfte (ground beef/meatball-like patties), domatesli pilav (tomato rice), and yogurt.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Favorite family dinner would have to be my childhood birthday meal of Earl Abel's fried chicken and black bottom pie.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Sauerbraten and homemade sides.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Really anything, as long as it's accompanied by family and laughter. We often have shrimp scampi in the summer and a roast with Yorkshire Pudding in the winter....mmm.... :)
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Our favorite family dinner is Homemade Lasagna with a green salad and homemade yeast rolls.
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Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
spaghetti and meatballs
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
We called it "chicken and glop", but it was chicken and rice. How did my mother put up with us?
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
It depends on the weather for me, but at this time of year it's roast chicken, mashed potatoes, peas (homegrown, please; frozen peas from the store are inevitably overripe), green salad, and pie.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
meatloaf and mashed potatoes!
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
My favorite family dinner would have to be posole. We have it every christmas eve with fresh tamales and it is sooo good.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Gosh, my favorite family dinner!? That's hard . My family is full of great cooks so I guess it has more to do with the atmosphere. So then I would have to go with Christmas eve dinner. 14 cousins plus 16 Aunts and Uncles all eating and drinking and being merry. Usually there's a goose (which doesn't hurt) and floating islands for desert. super yummm, it warms my heart just to think about it.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
ribs. lasagna. soup. anything my mom makes
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Our favorite comfort food is mapo tofu - spicy and warming - over rice with some sauteed greens. Something about one bowl foods you can hold in your hand do it for us...
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Pasta with meat sauce and bread!
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Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Boring but comforting - an overly stuffed tuna salad sandwich, on wonderful crusty rye bread, a slight smear of mayo, crisp iceberg lettuce, juicy tomato, cut in half please.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Irish Coddle. A big pot, almost stew but with not quite enough liquid, of potatoes, bacon, sausage and onion. Gets you fattened up for hibernation season.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
barbeque salmon and broccoli slaw, mom's favorite summer specialty
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
One of my favorite family meals is banh xeo. They're savory, yellow crepes and having all sorts of people in my family through marriage, some being born in Vietnam, some being born here, etc., my mom gets a lot of different requests as to what to put in them. First she makes the vegetarian kind for those folks then regular Americanized ones then the hardcore ones.
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Spaghetti and meatballs, garlic bread, a big green salad - a perfect family dinner.