Tag: playing with food
member name: Madame Donna C.
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June 21, 2007 04:30 PM EDT --
Madame Donna's Change 'O Plans Pesto Pizza
Along the shore, summertime lends a particular sense of freedom to our lifestyles. Women scantily wrapped in bikini tops and beach towel bottoms, . . .
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August 11, 2007 12:11 AM EDT --
I admit, I am a food voyeur. I love to watch people with their food. I want to see what they do with their food.
I photograph them doing what they do with their food. . . .
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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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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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January 14, 2008 02:45 PM EST --
Today, my feet resemble fat little sausages from all the walking I did yesterday. Have you ever eaten your way around the world in 7 hours? Well, yesterday that's exactly what I did!
My dear . . .
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June 11, 2007 01:36 PM EDT --
Auntie Edie's favorite ethnic food is Italian so I've been making Italian meals all week. After a week or so of catering her dinners, she's well enough now to manage on her own. . . .
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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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June 22, 2007 10:54 PM EDT --
As I mentioned in my last article, sometimes the arrival of unexpected guests necessitates creativity in the kitchen. Prior to our surprise guests' arrival, I purchased a lovely tri tip roast. . . .
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June 29, 2007 06:49 PM EDT --
From these ingredients:
And this roasted fish:
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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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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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July 23, 2007 01:39 AM EDT --
All it took was a gentle squeeze between my thumb and a forefinger to discover that my mangoes were overripe. Next, the realization that my avocados were also aging beyond their prime meant I'd . . .
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