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Filed under: Recipes, Northern Africa, Condiments, Spices, Ingredient Spotlight What Tabasco is to Avery Island, harissa is to Tunisia. This brick red tomato, garlic and spice paste is stirred into stews, served as a condiment for elaborate couscous dishes, and used as a rub for meat. Though originally Tunisian, it's ubiquitous in Moroccan and ...

Filed under: Vegetables, Dairy, Recipes, Fruit, Spices, Super Bowl XLII No, I don't need to give you yet another recipe for guacamole. Not only are there plenty of them out there, but a recipe for guacamole is like a ''recipe'' for a bowl of cereal, i.e. it doesn't really require one. It's enough to say that the basics are avocados, garlic, ...

Filed under: Food Porn Daily, Recipes, Spices Today's Food Porn Daily image is coming to you just as much because I'm intrigued by the recipe as because the picture is appealing. I tend to think of hummus and garbanzo beans as a food best kept strictly savory. My unimaginative food brain would never have thought to take it in a different, ...

Filed under: Dessert, Grains, Nuts/seeds, Recipes, Candy, Baking, How To, Spices, Sugar, Christmas We're a little behind on our a Cookie-a-Day, but we'll try to catch up before the end of the year. We have to! Starting on January 1, all of us will be forgoing cookies, candy, doughnuts, and cake, as per our New Year's Resolutions, ...

Filed under: Recipes, Rum, Eggs, Spices, Sugar, ChristmasLooking for a holiday eggnog with a slightly different twist? If so, you might be interested in checking out this one created by Chef Guillermo Pernot, the concept chef at Philadelphia's Cuba Libre. It's on the menu at the restaurant though the end of December, but if you don't happen to ...

Filed under: Dessert, Recipes, Baking, Spices, Sugar, Holidays, Christmas My search for good holiday cookie recipes has taken me far and wide. I've flipped through my file folders, scanned indexes of cookbooks, searched the internet and called my mom, all in the pursuit of tasty cookie recipes. Today's recipe comes from the Woman's Day 1984 ...

Filed under: Recipes, Shellfish, Spices, Retro cookeryLooking for something to make for dinner tonight? Why not try this one from my grandma Bunny's recipe box called Shrimp Curry Improv (I want to make it just for the name). It is a recipe that is definitely a product of it's time (I'm guessing sometime in the late sixties or early seventies) ...

Filed under: Dinner, Vegetables, Recipes, How To, Fall Flavors, Spices Late last week, I happened to drop mention of the Ginger Squash we often have for Thanksgiving around my family table. I got several requests for the recipe and so I'm now going to do my best to create one for you, despite the fact that this is not a dish I've ever tried to ...

Filed under: Dinner, Poultry, Recipes, How To, Spices The first year I brined my Thanksgiving turkey, it was something of a disaster. I didn't plan ahead well as to what I was going to brine my turkey in and so ended up using a tall, blue plastic garbage can that I had stashed away in my hall closet (I scrubbed it well before committing any ...

Filed under: Recipes, Fruit, Spices, Retro cookery, Sugar I still have about 25 apples left from the apple picking episode of Slashfood in the Kitchen that Scott and I made a couple of weeks ago. I've done a pretty good job of using them up, what with the apple sauce, apple crisp and apple muffins that have passed through my kitchen recently. ...