Pasta forestiere

After a hard day at the office – painting in the woods, one gets very hungry. Inspired by the earthiness, I decided to make pasta forestiere this evening. Here is a New York Times recipe that is basic. ...

Rau dong gone wrong

Rau Dong gone wrong I went to HMart this weekend, a Korean-Asian market in Fairfax County Virginia on a recommendation from Phyllis, an artist friend.  She shared some ripe mangos from there last week and that...

Coronation chicken: Recipe of the day

Coronation chicken Last winter while visiting friends in Surrey England, the chef prepared coronation chicken. While there was no immediate coronation on the horizon, the dish is quite popular as is sardine...

Dining on Mercedes

Mercedes Polar Bear Feast Since there are competing stories today about Mercedes the Polar Bear, I think there is surplus sufficient to support dinner. Here is a recipe and if one bear is worth sacrificing, we can...

Julia Child visited my kitchen tonight

I felt her in my presence. Before I got married and completed college, I worked as a chef. In fact, I met my wife when I was a chef and she was a waitress. We both loved good cooking. My mother was a great chef...

Mediterranean Mezze Feast for Two – Part 2

Well now, since we last talked, I pulled together the mezze, and my wife said it was “amezzing.” Here's a tour of the “family-style” deal, albeit for two. I toasted some of the tiny pita breads. They are...

Filipino Fruit Salad Recipe

Fruit salad recipe is a very simple and easy to prepare. All you need to do is to prepare the fruits of your own choice. Please select the freshest fruits in the market so that you will be able to have the best and healthy salad in town. This recipe is a perfect to serve...

Filipino Beef Bulalo/Pochero (Beef Bone Marrow Stew) Recipe

Beef Bulalo or other known as Pochero actually refers to the beef bone marrow which is boiled for hours until the marrow is tapped out from the bone. It is one such a favorite Filipino soup that is perfectly served during cold weather even in warm weather too. The hotter the...

Pączki Day Recipes, History, and the Dreaded Calorie Count

A pączek is a traditional Polish doughnut traditionally eaten on Fat Thursday, the Thursday which falls before Lent.  Pączki are deep-fried and shaped like a sphere, often filled with a sweet filling and...

Raccoon: the Other Dark Meat

A funny little article about Google search terms and the down economy: since more people are searching for “recipe” than for “restaurant”, what happens if a highly-ranked site begins including “raccoon”...

Homemade Christmas Gifts: Peppermint Lip Balm

So I needed relatively cheap and easy gifts for lots of people and I knew I wanted to make something homemade. So when a friend recommended making homemade lip balm I knew that it would be perfect. Though this...

How to Roast and Carve a Christmas Turkey

" ChristmasThis annual holiday is celebrated every December 25th and marks the birth of Jesus. Christmas is observed throughout the Christian world, but is also celebrated by many non-Christians as a secular...

Girl Guides revamp cookie recipes

The Girl Guides of Canada have announced they're trimming trans fats from their chocolate and vanilla cookies - two years after the US Girl Scouts eliminated use of the artery-clogging oils in their sweets."REGINA...

A study in pumpkin pie

We start off in this examination of pumpkin pie with a hard truth.  Most U.S.  pumpkin pie is a lie."An interesting fact is that most canned 'pumpkin' is actually hubbard squash. Hubbard squash has the...

The best thing about Thanksgiving - Grandma's cornbread dressing

Perhaps it is unkind to accuse your grandmother of holding out on you on her deathbed, but it's meant in jest."Grandma Virginia's Cornbread Dressing This dressing recipe came from Grandmother Virginia Corse West. She was the mother of Jane West, who went on to be...

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