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Cook the Book: 'Cooking Light The Complete Quick Cook'

Mostly cheating but in the winter by go-to is dumpling soup. Better than Bouillion or dashida (instant beef stock), frozen dumplings (usually not homemade), scallions, and egg "ribbons."

wrain at 12:27PM on 01/19/12

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Drinking a Peanut Butter Smoothie Instead of an Energy Drink

This is my standard breakfast -- except I use a whole frozen banana.

wrain at 9:45AM on 01/05/12

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Bake the Book: 'Momofuku Milk Bar'

Hm, pies, cakes, macarons, apple strudel, almond croissants, and hot chocolate. Among other things...

wrain at 9:50AM on 10/27/11

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Cook the Book: 'Cooking Without Borders'

I think it can be great when done well but not when it's just watered down versions of authentic dishes. For a long time "Asian fusion" to me just a restaurant that served both mediocre sushi and mediocre Chinese food.

wrain at 2:28PM on 10/24/11

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Cook the Book: 'The Mozza Cookbook'

Just had a wonderful meal at Modo Mio in Philadelphia over the weekend. Four courses for $32 -- amazing deal too!

wrain at 12:59PM on 10/10/11

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Cook the Book: 'Ruhlman's Twenty'

Already mentioned by a couple of people, but definitely weighing ingredients, especially for baking. I love my kitchen scale!

wrain at 1:35PM on 09/26/11

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Weekend Giveaway: 'The Food Matters Cookbook'

I'll admit it, I could be doing better but I do cook 85% of my meals and have been trying to eat fruits/vegetables in season (aka at least semi-local?).

wrain at 12:40PM on 03/13/11

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Cook the Book: Quick and Easy Korean Cooking

Seaweed soup

wrain at 12:20PM on 02/21/11

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Cook the Book: 'The Just Bento Cookbook'

Meatballs, rice, some kind of veggie, grapes or berries.

wrain at 12:33PM on 02/14/11

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Cook the Book: 'The Essential New York Times Cookbook'

The New Best Recipe from Cook's Illustrated...though I guess it's not so new anymore.

wrain at 1:25PM on 01/03/11

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Bake the Book: Grasshopper Bars

I made these over the weekend and they were a big hit. I omitted the creme de menthe and increased the peppermint extract to 3 tsp. But...considering how expensive the extract is, I think next time I'll either get my butt to the liquor store to buy the creme de menthe or maybe just fold in some crushed peppermint candies.

wrain at 8:41AM on 12/20/10

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Cook the Book: 'Baked Explorations'

I prefer baking to buying things at bakeries (which is why I can't wait to check out this cookbook) but I'm pretty fond of Saint Honore Pastry Shop in Port Washington, NY. Beautiful and delicious cakes and pastries!

wrain at 1:06PM on 12/13/10

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Cook the Book: 'Bobby Flay's Throwdown!'

I don't know all of what Bobby's done already but maybe pho or ramen or banh mi?

wrain at 1:44PM on 11/05/10

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Slice Poll: How Long Have You Gone Without Eating Pizza?

I also said 1 month, but it's really 2-3 months. I'm an ex-New Yorker living in an area with pretty pitiful pizza, so basically it's however long between trips back to NY.

wrain at 10:17AM on 08/16/10

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Cook the Book: The Good Stuff Cookbook

Glad I live in Maryland where we have Five Guys all over the place. That's my go-to, but I did like Shake Shack and Good Stuff. Still haven't had In N Out though!

wrain at 1:23PM on 06/23/10

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Cook the Book: 'Seasonal Fruit Desserts'

Blueberry crumb bars!

wrain at 3:05PM on 05/12/10

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Cook the Book: 'The Vegetarian Option'

One of my favorites dishes, vegetarian or not, is spicy braised tofu, Korean-style. It's actually really simple and so good.

wrain at 1:19PM on 05/03/10

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'Slice' Poll: Dessert Pizza - Way or No Way?

Not against it but I've never had a good one...

wrain at 11:13AM on 05/03/10

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'Slice' Poll: Chicken Pizza - Way or No Way?

I voted "Way!" but I agree with simon that I only like it if it's breaded chicken cutlet, as in chicken broccoli or chicken parm. I think bbq and buffalo chicken pizzas are gross. Or yeah, CPK. I'm an ex-New Yorker who's picky about pizza but CPK is kind of its own thing.

wrain at 10:14AM on 04/26/10

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Cook the Book: 'Bromberg Bros. Blue Ribbon Cookbook'

Silver Diner is pretty much the only place open late around me. It's a chain but I don't think I've ever had bad meal there.

wrain at 1:29PM on 04/08/10

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Serious Eats Giveaway: $50 Gift Certificates from Threadless

My favorite is "mmh.. Delicious," the one with the piece of toast spreading jelly on himself. It's really cute but maybe also a little disturbing...

wrain at 10:47AM on 03/18/10

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Grocery Self-Checkout Lanes: Way or No Way?

My local Giant has the portable scanners so you scan stuff and bag as you go through the store. They also have the produce scales that print out barcode labels. So once you get to the self checkout lane all you have to do is scan a "finished" code, scan your Giant card and then pay. I think the portable scanners are a lot easier to use than scanning at the checkout lane and you can take your time bagging stuff as you shop instead of rushing to scan, bag, and pay all at once at the end.

Truthfully I started using this because there's this one bagger who always asks me if I'm someone else and it was getting tiring trying to avoid her...

wrain at 8:20AM on 03/10/10

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Cook the Book: 'Italian Easy'

Pasta with butter, parmesan and garlic. Things I always have on hand!

wrain at 2:15PM on 03/08/10

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Cook the Book: 'Salt to Taste'

I'm going to admit that I'm not sure what makes something a winter ingredient, but looking at the previous responses, I'll go for sweet potatoes...

wrain at 1:40PM on 02/15/10

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Cook the Book: The Grand Central Baking Book

Baked to Perfection and Saint Honore Pastry Shop in Port Washington, NY. It's hard to choose between the two -- probably Baked to Perfection for cakes and Saint Honore for pastries.

As I no longer live there though, I guess honorable mention to Georgetown Cupcake in DC/Bethesda, MD...

wrain at 3:52PM on 02/08/10

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