Tag: making food with your hands and your own imagination
member name: Madame Donna C.
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July 01, 2007 11:37 PM EDT --
Everyone who loves cooking began learning, somewhere, with some scant essentials and a vivid imagination. I do not know much about the experiences of others here but, for years, I cooked in small . . .
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August 14, 2007 04:33 PM EDT --
Two round orbs looked up at me with a questioning stare. I gazed downward at the small person tugging on my pant leg. Jiggly J, my niece, wanted to cook.
Jiggly earned her name from her unstoppable . . .
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October 09, 2007 05:21 PM EDT --
I saw a wonderful sandwich posted here by my fellow foodie, Kevin Weeks, last week. I wanted to make the sandwich since every element of it was something I like to eat.
His recipe included . . .
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October 24, 2007 11:00 PM EDT --
Fires and evacuation alerts are sensitive subjects for me. My parent's home burned to the ground many years ago. Their loss wasn't caused by wildfires like the ones we are currently . . .
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November 16, 2007 01:09 PM EST --
Holiday entertaining creates stress and chaos in many homes. Magazines offer tips to help with organizing menus, food shopping and seating arrangements. Turkey hotlines* answer cooking . . .
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January 07, 2008 02:51 PM EST --
By the sea, by the beautiful sea, one expects balmy breezes and palm trees. In wintertime, the sea turns a deep azure blue and becomes as tumultuous as boiling water in a teapot. When storms blow through . . .
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June 26, 2008 07:45 PM EDT --
Lemon Crème Custard ( for Jenna is around here somewhere s. )
The summer season makes my days busy and active which means I'm not online much at all. I'm also completely distracted, . . .
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July 19, 2008 12:35 PM EDT --
As requested, here is the recipe for my Garam Masala Spice Blend. The recipe for the felafels that use this ingredient can be found here: Israeli Felafel.
The following ingredients are all . . .
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September 19, 2008 02:04 PM EDT --
For the last week, I've been immersed in healthful cooking using things like brown rice flour, agave nectar, grains and carob chips. As rewarding as healthful cooking can be, it was time to . . .
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July 18, 2007 01:00 AM EDT --
I know there is a television show called, "Hell's Kitchen." I don't watch television but I have heard people talking about it. This week I found Hell's Kitchen. . . .
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August 15, 2007 04:28 PM EDT --
Last night I had a bit of trouble choosing a dessert to prepare. I vacillated between a clafouti and an upside down cake, then between a fruit buckle and a kuchen. Each of these desserts involves . . .
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July 10, 2007 11:16 PM EDT --
This Bengalese dish is supposed to have a lot of "heat". Since fresh green chilies are generally milder in flavor than dried red chilies choose your heat quotient before assembling your . . .
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September 06, 2007 08:15 PM EDT --
This week, several evenings of meals all began with some colorful, flavorful heirloom tomatoes. I've developed several simple marinades and fruit or vegetable salsas, over the years, to use impulsively. . . .
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September 16, 2007 07:31 PM EDT --
Each year as summer's heat fades and fall's cooler air moves in, I begin planning my Thanksgiving menu. It is finally cool enough to use the oven a bit more as I experiment with recipes to . . .
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September 25, 2007 05:45 PM EDT --
Thoughts of implementing drastic changes to our 2007 Thanksgiving menu began in August. It was during a catering stint with my friend Teresa that the seed idea of transforming our Thanksgiving . . .
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October 12, 2007 05:02 PM EDT --
While ruminating on new taste sensations for our Thanksgiving Fusion Feast, I thought back to older ideas and flavor schemes in my collection. A while ago, I wrote an article about stuffing, entitled . . .
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June 14, 2008 06:26 PM EDT --
When she arrived for work today, she handed me two grocery sacks overflowing with lemons. My yard provides me with fruit but these lemons were special.
She emigrated here, legally, . . .
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June 17, 2008 06:11 PM EDT --
Recently, Jenna is around here somewhere s . strolled through my articles and found an image of one of my favorite desserts, Meyer Lemon Custard Tartlet's.
Unfortunately, I removed the . . .
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October 29, 2008 06:49 PM EDT --
Tasting, testing and redefining has consumed most of the last week in my kitchen. Long ago, we established the traditional favorites that will not budge from our menu. However, as Thanksgiving . . .
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July 10, 2007 11:25 PM EDT --
The origin for the recipe, Chicken Tikka Masala, is as highly disputed as the mythological stories that follow the recipe for General Tso's chicken. Half of the culinary world, it seems, lay . . .
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