Tag: kd weeks
group name: houseandgarden
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March 12, 2008 03:07 PM EDT --
A few years ago I purchased American Classics by the editors of Cook's Illustrated magazine. The book is a good modern reference to such traditional favorites as Chicken Pot Pie, Parker . . . more
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June 12, 2008 12:40 PM EDT --
S upposedly Beef Stroganoff was created by a chef in Saint Petersburg for a culinary competition held in the 1890s. Although the dish was almost certainly named for Count Paul Stroganoff, a Russian noble . . . more
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March 01, 2008 01:15 PM EST --
S ardines and crackers, some cheese, and a shared bottle of beer - LaBatt's Blue, as I recall. I've had fancier and more interesting picnics, but in this case I was smitten with my traveling companion. . . . more
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February 03, 2007 08:28 PM EST --
I'd never been in a sex shop before. It was… interesting. The fur-covered handcuffs were interesting. The leather collars were interesting. The costumes were interesting, And the, well… . . . more
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February 06, 2007 11:14 AM EST --
English food has a terrible reputation, and perhaps at one time it was deserved. But even then the food had its glories. Or, if "glories" is too strong a word, then it certainly had its genuine . . . more
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February 16, 2008 07:42 PM EST --
A s a Southern cook, I have an obligation to attempt to keep track of cookbooks purportedly offering Southern food. This means that The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook by Matt and Ted Lee was on my list . . . more
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January 09, 2007 09:15 PM EST --
Parchment paper is one of those cooking tools that doesn't seem like a big deal until you start using it. And then you wonder how you got along without it. It's the perfect surface for baking meringues . . . more
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January 16, 2007 05:56 PM EST --
Y esterday I found a new product in the deli section of the supermarket. It was in a vacuum pack and hanging with the packages of sliced salami, ham, cheese, and other sandwich fixings -- Shaved Country . . . more
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March 26, 2008 11:42 AM EDT --
O nce upon a time I was the lead singer in an Indonesian rock band in Cairo, Egypt. Bear with me, it's a bit complicated.
At the time my parents were teaching at the American University in Cairo . . . more
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April 11, 2008 05:31 PM EDT --
I pictured a mound of overlapping circles of golden-brown potatoes strewn with sprigs of green. Instead, I ended up with a single circle of potatoes surrounding a bird's nest of potato strips. Such . . . more
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April 21, 2008 03:58 PM EDT --
B est I can figure is that I have a food face. I was in the market the other day, looking for a good bunch of asparagus when the woman next to me asked, "How do you cook asparagus?" She went . . . more
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May 09, 2008 02:20 PM EDT --
T here are foods that make you wonder how they came to be eaten. For instance, raw olives are phenomenally bitter. They have to be cured in salt for several weeks before they're edible. Who figured . . . more
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August 06, 2008 02:23 PM EDT --
B ack when I was a computer programmer and then editor I would have loved to have had a 9 - 5 job - or so I claimed. A 50-hour week wasn't unusual and even 60-hour weeks were fairly common. On the . . . more
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February 13, 2008 03:47 PM EST --
T here are a few recipes I make once a year and only once a year, every year. They all meet my definition of "seriously good" and yet, are so loaded with things like saturated fats that I limit . . . more
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February 20, 2008 05:10 PM EST --
S ometimes cooking and eating are a matter of faith. Or, perhaps more accurately, a calculated risk. I had a three pound pork loin in my freezer that I needed to do something with but I wanted something . . . more
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March 20, 2008 04:43 PM EDT --
J eez! "Food for Working" sounds like a white-collar pretension of blue-collar roots, doesn't it? But I don't mean it that way. We all have jobs. We all sometimes get up earlier than . . . more
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June 17, 2008 06:04 PM EDT --
I 'm almost as fed up (pun intended) with writing about food recalls as I am learning about them. Some good news on the food front would really be nice, but I'm afraid that with 238 people reportedly . . . more
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February 12, 2007 09:07 PM EST --
Today Spot-on.com, a Web syndication service published my weekly first column. And I'm pumped.
Spot-on brings together a collection of columnists who offer:
"a range of well-written and smartly . . . more
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January 23, 2007 10:50 AM EST --
There was a time when I always had stale bread in my freezer. I’d buy a loaf for some purpose or other, eat part of it, then when the remainder started going stale I’d cut it up into . . . more
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March 01, 2007 05:55 PM EST --
A quilt hangs on the wall in my dining room. It's about four feet square and displays a single large white diamond surrounded and filled with small, randomly colored squares of cloth. It isn't . . . more
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