Tag: cooking technique
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October 27, 2005 06:59 PM EDT --
While heading to lunch at a local sandwich shop, I found myself in a conversation with some coworkers about a sandwich that I often get. The sandwich has Gouda cheese as a main ingredient. Gouda is not . . .
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August 25, 2005 11:25 AM EDT --
A month or so ago, my wife and I were trying to see how much money we could give to Target, and she suggested we get a Crock Pot.
"Why do we want a crock pot?" I asked.
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December 16, 2005 09:22 AM EST --
Sometimes it's a lovely thing to take an evening off from the kitchen and go to a pub with friends. When we lived in Portland, Oregon, there was a McMinamen's pub -- a local "chain" of . . .
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January 05, 2006 09:18 PM EST --
Watercress has been part of the human diet for time out of mind. Cultivated or gathered on the margins of clean-running streams, it's a pungent, spicy, mustardy green. It's scientific . . .
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August 29, 2005 02:47 PM EDT --
I really feel like telling you the rice-a-roni story today.
I was in graduate school and dating someone who was getting a master's degree in Horticulture, specializing in rice. She complained . . .
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November 17, 2005 09:26 PM EST --
I wanted to make chicken soup. Since I was in the local Asian supermarket, I bought a whole chicken, stuck the poor thing in the freezer till I would be ready to do the soup thing. . . .
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December 07, 2006 12:08 PM EST --
3
cups Gold Medal® all-purpose flour
3/4
cup packed brown sugar
2/3
cup baking cocoa
1
egg, beaten
1 1/2
cups firm butter or margarine
1 1/2
cups chopped walnuts
1
bag (12 oz) . . .
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November 11, 2005 03:15 PM EST --
As Thanksgiving day is a mere two weeks away, it's probably a good idea to go over some basic tips and hints revolving around the big bird. It's a fair guess to say that Heritage Turkeys are now . . .
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November 25, 2005 10:47 AM EST --
Turkey soup.
Put it ALL in your biggest pot, the one you use for lobsters in the summer time. Don't forget the side dishes, particularly creamed onions, sweet potatoes and cranberry sauce. Don't . . .
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January 05, 2006 08:18 PM EST --
Soy sauce is very familiar to American's today, but many people may not realize what a variety of styles are represented under this title.
The usual soy sauce you find at greasy chopstick restaurants, . . .
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January 28, 2006 02:39 PM EST --
Have you ever dreamed of having a personal assistant in your kitchen? Oh I have, many times! As I dreamed of things this personal assistant would do for me, I developed some time savings tips that will . . .
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December 06, 2006 03:48 PM EST --
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting work surface
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sugar
2 large eggs
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted and cooled . . .
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December 10, 2005 04:39 PM EST --
Pandoro means golden bread in Italian, but to me it means Christmas. Not only because it appears in shops and bakeries at the end of November, but because its tall shape, dusted with confectioner's . . .
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December 16, 2005 09:18 AM EST --
"I hear that there is a spice they use in China that numbs the mouth," said Gavin.
"I know that spice. It lives in your kitchen!" I told him. "It's called Szechuan Pepper, . . .
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January 05, 2006 08:27 PM EST --
Although traditional mirin is a rice wine, comparable to sake but with a sweeter taste from the rice koji used in it's fermentation, the mirin you will find in the supermarket is simply a condiment. . . .
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January 28, 2006 02:42 PM EST --
Meals in Minutes
Do you keep in your pantry items to make a meal in minutes?
Take-out food is so expensive. When you do a little preparing, you can actually fix meals in minutes. While meals in minutes . . .
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December 16, 2005 06:07 PM EST --
I included this in a comment on a Thanksgiving cooking article that Kevin Weeks published but thought I'd put it over in an actual article about cooking. This took place in the mid-seventies. . . .
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December 18, 2005 02:38 AM EST --
Today was such an excellent day! I got up late, spent the late morning at Haymarket, and the rest of the day cooking or working on Christmas presents (or both, in some cases!).
Coming home from . . .
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January 05, 2006 08:41 PM EST --
About.com has a wonderful discussion of five spice powder, including a recipe. Another two recipes are here. Another here. You can search and find many more.
As you may gather, five . . .
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November 23, 2006 08:41 AM EST --
A few weeks ago, Faith S. sent me an email about a promotion for a free Senseo single serving coffee machine. I must've been too caught up in dragging my new toy all over town, bragging about . . .
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