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Filed under: Recipes, Pork, Food Oddities, America Turn off your spam-blockers and get ready for an avalanche of salty, eraser-colored porktastic goodness. The other day, I wrote about how Spam is ramping up production to meet recession-fueled demand. Some of you passionately defended the oft-ridiculed meat product; others requested Spam recipes. ...

Filed under: Recipes, Pork, Retro cookery From 60 Ways to Serve Ham (1930), Armour and Company I'm interrupting the semi-regularly scheduled Midnight Sausage series to share molded food images and recipes from my personal collection of early-to-mid 20th century cookbooks. There will be aspic. There will be mousse. There will be various gelatins. ...

Filed under: Beef, Poultry, Recipes, Pork, Barbecuing, Lists, Grilling, America, Meat, Holidays, Summer The Grand Rapids Press has a list of several dozen beef, chicken vegetable and fish tips for your Independence Day bash. Try wrapping fish in prosciutto or bacon to prevent drying. And cook snapper and other delicate fish in foil or on a plank ...

Filed under: Recipes, Pork, On the Blogs No, it's not a new rap artist or the name of an old Burt Reynolds TV show*. It's a recipe from Shirley over at Mom's Best Recipes. You don't get many recipes that include pasta, bacon, cream cheese, and Italian dressing, so this sounds intriguing. Basically any excuse to eat bacon and cream cheese I ...

Ah, the pig. That regal creature that Homer Simpson once referred to as a “wonderful, magical animal.” Indeed, I believe the pig may be magical: After all, a little bit of pig seems to make everything a lot more delicious. (And, never having had unicorn, I can only assume the pig is far tastier.) My husband has [...]

Filed under: East Coast, Recipes, Newspapers, America, in sixty seconds MSG is in more foods than you might think. But it's not the devil. More on Frank Bruni's favorite new non-NYC restaurants. Memories of Caribbean jerk chicken with pineapple (with recipes). One-pot shrimp curry recipe. How to cook an octopus. Hint: very slowly. A ...

Filed under: Lunch, Dinner, Hors D'oeuvres, Snacks, Vegetables, Nuts/seeds, Beef, Poultry, Cheese, Recipes, Pork, How To, America, Comfort Food, Slow cooking, Meat, Vegetarian/Vegan, Super Bowl XLII Though there are a a lot of different things for Super Bowl parties, there are a few that will, without a doubt, make an appearance at every Super ...

Filed under: Cheese, Recipes, Pork, Books, Soups/Salads I love find cookbooks I can actually use. A lot of cookbooks have recipes that I'll never make, so it's great to find one that has some useful, tasty recipes I can actually tackle. The About.com Guide To Shortcut Cooking is such a book. It's a good first book for someone who wants something ...

Filed under: Lunch, Dinner, Hors D'oeuvres, Snacks, Vegetables, Recipes, Pork, How To, Southern States, Condiments, America, Comfort Food, Slow cooking, Braising, Meat We're being a little lazy this Sunday afternoon because we're anxiously watching the two conference championship games on TV, but that hasn't stopped us from doing the research we ...

Filed under: Grains, Vegetables, Beef, Poultry, Recipes, Pork, Comfort Food When it comes to these short, dark winter days, there's nothing better than putting a little effort into a dish and then have it spend the rest of the day filling your home with the delicious smells of cooking. The weekends are perfect for these long braises, soups and ...