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[30 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]
Beer Review: Golden Monkey from Victory Brewing Beer Sessions

FOUND AT THE KITCHN – This beer is absolutely unlike anything else we’ve ever tasted……

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[29 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]
Roast Your Own Chestnuts

FOUND AT KITCHEN GARDENERS INTERNATIONAL – Chestnuts, while very common in Europe, are hard to come by these days in the US as the result of a massive blight that wiped out most chestnut trees here during the first half of the 1900s. Fortunately, the tree is making a comeback, largely due to …

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[27 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]

FOUND AT EATING WELL LIVING THIN –
MEATBALL STEW
Need a quick supper? Fix this dish and even the pickiest eaters in the house will gobble it up.
Toss a crunchy salad full of dark greens and colorful red and yellow peppers, radishes, some purple onion slices, and deep black olives. Dowse it with a splash of olive oil and balsamic vinegar…sprinkle lots of [...]

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[24 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]

I am a good girlfriend. A very good girlfriend. The Boy had noticed when a fellow friend in town tweeted about buffalo chicken calzones she made that were “fugly” (in her own words). He loves buffalo chicken and pizza (like most men), so of course…

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[23 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]
Yorkshire Puddings

FOUND AT ALMOST BOURDAIN

Are you still looking for a perfect side dish for the Thanksgiving dinner? Look no further. These Yorkshire Puddings might just be the one.Yorkshire pudding is a dish that originated in Yorkshire, England, and has attained wide popularity. It is made f…

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[23 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]

Woe to the dinner roll.  So plain and boring.  Dinner rolls piled in a basket to stave off hunger before the “real meal” arrives or  utilized as a gravy clean up tool throughout the feast. It’s the wallflower of the dinner table.

It is time for the dinner roll to stand and say “Notice Me!”  Let mashed potatoes and green beans be the boring ones.  Introduce the feasting masses to dinner roll eye-rolling goodness and show ‘em you’ve got soul and pizazz.  Announce your bad-ass bread presence with authority with Olive Oil Dinner Rolls with Caramelized Onion and Gorgonzola.

The dough for…

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[23 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]

Stirfried cabbage. How “interesting”, huh? Yesterday, one of my friends commented that I am a very disciplined person. I let out a huge guffaw because of late, that is certainly not the case. Granted, I thrive on order and timeliness most of the time, …

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[23 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]
Double Chocolate Pecan Pie

It’s only been a year since I discovered that I actually do like pecan pie, and since then I have embraced this fact with open arms.  Since I’m new to this sort of dessert, I didn’t know there was a way to improve upon it, but there is – ad…