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Options allow diners to customize Vietnamese soup
Fall means moving from the grill to the stock pot. I learned Friday however that fall grilling can be fun. Warm fire, smoky smells. It’s not so bad, but fall to me is the beginning of football, hoc...
Oct 19, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Brownies, blondies and bar cookies come in many varieties such as this mocha-cream cheese brownie.
Brownies without borders
Monkey around with a towering souffle or a Parisian petit four, and you’re asking for trouble. But brownies — and their freewheeling cousins, the blondie and bar — are a whole different matter. The...
Oct 12, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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The apples in this spicy beef chili recipe give the dish a hint of sweetness.
Beat the fall chill with a steamy bowl of chili
Chilly fall evenings are a fine time for a spicy bowl of chili. And if it can be thrown together with minimal fuss and time, all the better. Because while I love a slowly simmered soup or chili,...
Oct 05, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Chicken stir-fry in black bean sauce makes for a tasty quick dinner.
Chinese flavors spice foods of the Americas
It’s now, that time between seasons, when groceries and farmers markets carry a full range of nature’s bounty, which inspires this cross-cultural stir-fry. It pairs Asian flavorings and techniques ...
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3 Carefully roll up the vanilla and chocolate dough to create a pinwheel. Wrap in plastic wrap and freeze or refrigerate at least one hour, or until ready to bake.
A slice of convenience
When it comes to home baking, the idea of convenience has been kidnapped by well-meaning manufacturers who have created a culture of pre-rolled pie crust, shrink-wrapped cookie mix and frozen cudge...
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Salads are nice, but burgers sell
NEW YORK — Americans talk skinny but eat fat. No matter that First Lady Michelle Obama has been on a crusade for a year and a half to slim down the country. Never mind that some restaurants have...
Oct 04, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Shrimp dish a taste of French cuisine
Fresh shrimp in a light Provencal sauce is one of celebrity chef Jacques Pepin’s creations I tasted on a cruise. With a restaurant named after him on the Oceania Marina, he told me that he wante...
Sep 28, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Buttery, sweet pear cake makes a great fall treat
German butter cake — which also goes by the name gooey butter cake — seems to be one of those dishes that has many meanings to many people in many places. Germany, for example, has a butter cake...
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For the best tasting butter, buy the best quality cream you can find.
Do-it-yourself: It’s easy, good and so worth it
Why go to the trouble of making butter at home? After all, that’s why they package it all up neat in little sticks for us at the grocery store... So we don’t have to. And yet, it is so wort...
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This Sept. 16, 2011 photo shows, from left to right, Sea Salted Butter France, Black Truffle butter, top, Butter of Parma Italy, bottom, Vermont Cultured butter, Buerre d'Isigny France, top right, and Brookford Farm Uncultured butter in Concord, N.H.  A hand-crafted product 50 or so years ago, butter has descended into a mass-produced, taste-shackled commodity only to be resurrected in recent years as interest in good, hand-crafted food has grown.    (AP Photo/Matthew Mead)
Store-bought butters now more chic
Remember when butter came in two varieties — salted and not? Food writer and blogger Leitha Matz can, which makes it all the more surprising when she contemplates the herd of butter choices now ...
Sep 28, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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