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I am also so glad you posted this. Shame on Paula Deen and shame on Smithfield bacon. I never would have known about their safety record and such, so I really appreciate learning of it.
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Essentials: Fish Tacos
For about a month now I've been promising myself to make fish tacos. Perhaps this will give me the extra push I need to do it. I think I'll stop at the store on my way home.
10 bucks! Feed 4!
I would do an asian tofu and rice stir fry.
Bricks of the 365 tofu at WF are only a dollar. Then you could add some nice veggies, sugar snap peas, carrots, bean sprouts, maybe fried egg. Maybe even some canned pineapple pieces. I like that. Season with soy and oyster sauce. Yum!
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My blog is My Little World of Food
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It is fairly new, but I think I've been posting like a madwoman! I have posts on recipes, thoughts, food reviews, chocolate, cooking, eating, and gadgets.
I'm having a lot of fun with it, and it encourages me to try new things and improve my photography. I'm trying to make the photos nice. My last dinner that I posted recipes to was a real challenge in the photography department. It just wasn't too pretty to start with.
I am working on building up a collection of nice plates to use in my photographs, and I need to get a collection of fabrics going to make my photos more interesting.
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I love the cilantro and the basil ones. I think the frozen is much better than the dried, and I'm much more likely to have it than the fresh.
Houston Pupusa Truck: 'Just Look for the Funky Chicken'
How is it that I had never heard of pupusas? I'm intrigued, and after reading this I did a little research and it looks like something I will have to try. It also works because I've been looking to make simple recipes with my Spanish students. I'm sure it takes some practice, but I think it will be fun to do a pupusa-making day!
Enough with the FN bashing, what about PBS?
I love the cooking shows on PBS.
I do watch Ciao Italia, but it's difficult. It's not Marianne, but her voice that bothers me. Her voice can be intollerable. Sometimes I just go to her web site.
I love ATK, and I like Christopher Kimball (gasp!). I learn a lot watching the show.
Lately I've been into Jose in Spain. He's funny, and since I'm a Spanish teacher who is more familiar with Latin American cuisine, I'm really learning a lot.
I wish there was more available on my PBS channels, and I really wish they had a regular schedule. Some weeks we have no cooking shows, and sometimes we have a lot.
Dinner: Impossible with Michael Symon?
I really didn't care for Robert Irvine much at all. But I like Michael Symon. But I wonder how good he'll make the show.
I started watching Dinner Impossible about a month or two before the scandal. I just thought that so many of the episodes that I saw weren't very chef-like. Cooking at a school graduation with some cranky, insecure cook who has to give up his kitchen kind of turned me off.
Maybe Michael Symon will make the show better?????
Top Chef - Should Jennifer have been sent home?
I didn't mind seeing Jen go. I thought it was more unfair when her girlfriend was sent home.
I'm tend to be a stickler for rules (probably because I'm a teacher), so I felt strongly that the group that didn't use the polish sausage should have lost. But wasn't it Stephanie and Antonia who were dead-set against using polish sausage? Am I mixing up my episodes?
Nikki amazes me! She seems completely mediocre, except for her home made pasta. She ought to be cooking at the Olive Garden or something in my opinion.
The one thing I want to learn is (?)
They offer a class at LA Burdick's chocolates in Walpole, NH on how to make chocolates and all the steps that go along with it. It is a week-long class, I believe. I live only a little over an hour away. But if I remember correctly, the class is over $800. Gosh, I would LOVE to take that class.
Oh, and I'd love to learn some bread baking too. :)
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Essentials: Fish Tacos
It's all about the cilantro and lime with fish tacos...I've never understood how some people can not like cilantro. The only thing I always add is diced mango and a little extra lime, but then, I add fruit to everything whenever possible.
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@foodlexi.........regarding dry mouth - it happens when you're nervous and not breathing normally. Try to be conscious of how you breath during normal conversation and focus on breathing like that when you're being interviewed. It does help to have a piece of hard candy handy just in case, but it could garble your words. Best of luck!!!!
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10 bucks! Feed 4!
I made a pasta dish last night big enough to feed a family of four with many leftovers! Farfalle pasta, sliced veggie italian sausage, peas, carrots, and yellow squash. Drizzle with a little bit of olive oil, and add pepper and salt to taste. Sprinkle with some parm, and you're good to go.
10 bucks! Feed 4!
There was an article about this exact thing here that ran in the Washington Post (considered to be one of the "national" newspapers, I believe) as well as in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
Essentials: Fish Tacos
I love this book's version of fish tacos - I made them last summer and Ben hasn't stopped requesting them since. (I used tilapia, but since I don't own a nonstick skillet, there were some stickage issues with my stainless steel pan...)
Expert Ham-Taster, Not Expert Workers Rights Advocate
I like Paula Deen, I like her cooking, I cannot cook like her because it's not what I can serve at our home. The "Paula started from nothing" thing is also a topic. She was operating an illegal catering business out of her home. That is fact. No health inspection, no insurance, no safety net. If someone got ill she would have started with much less of nothing and a legal mess.
To hold Paul Deen up on a pedestal is asking for someone to come along and knock it down. Hero worship doesn't always convey well on here. You are free to worship anyone you want. I choose to worship people who did things the correct and legal way. Not selling food out the back door.
She is a story alright. She is the story of what you should not do. Doesn't matter if she was successful or not. Same with the Smithfield endorsement, her manager should have represented her a little better.
I do not begrudge anyone making a living. Just don't shove the beatified Ms Deen down our throats. We know the score and it was not a win win.
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The idea of being interviewed on live radio could definitely make a person nervous. It is wonderful that it is happening though, and a good thing not only for you but for all food bloggers - for it shows that the concept is being taken in a serious way as being worthy of public interest.
Could be that your interviewer has an agenda or a list of questions, yes. But if you want to direct the conversation to "scrumptious edible things" then perhaps the best way to do that would be to bring along the exact scrumptious things you wish to talk about, in a big bag which you'll keep at your feet. To direct the conversation, simply pull out one or the other and hold it in the air facing your interviewer. What can she do? She must react. "What is that lovely scrumptious edible thing?" she'll say, and off you'll go to explain it. Inbetween you might allow her to ask her something she might want to ask but then pull out the next thing and hold it before her eyes.
As far as dry-mouth goes I have no suggestions except that water might be better than either champagne (too bubbly) or whiskey(can make a person cough).
If all else fails, think of Julia Child. She made the most wonderful mistakes on the air and everyone adored her for it. :)
Bon chance and thanks for taking this risk for food bloggers everywhere!
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