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Filed under: Hors D'oeuvres, Vegetables, Recipes, Newspapers, America, Europe, Meat One of my favorite things in the world is a thick wedge of pâté de campagne - rustic French pork pâté - served with crusty bread, coarse mustard, and a little jar of pickles. The buttery pâté is cut by a bracing smear of ...

Filed under: Vegetables, Recipes, On the Blogs Now I realize that it's the day after Halloween and the last thing you want to be thinking about is pumpkin, especially since some of the neighborhood kids smashed your jack 'o lantern last night and you have big chunks of pumpkin to clean up off your front porch. Be that as it may, I wandered across ...

Shuna Lydon & Sherry Yard, both on team #1. A number of months ago I received an email from an old pastry chef of mine, Stephen Durfee, who is now an instructor at The Culinary Institute of America, Greystone campus in Napa Valley. He was letting me know I would soon receive an invitation to The Fifth Annual Worlds of Flavor Baking & Pastry ...

Filed under: Lunch, Dinner, Food Porn, Vegetarian, Vegetables, Nuts/seeds, Recipes, Fruit, How To, Light Food Although it is still cold in many parts of the country, temperatures here in Southern California shot up to almost summer-like highs over the past few days. The sudden heat has cause me - and many others - to turn away from hot soup and ...

Filed under: Dinner, Food Porn, Vegetables, Cheese, Recipes, Pork, Baking, How To, Boiling, Comfort Food On nights when you don't really feel like cooking, pasta is always an easy fallback. Now that people seem to be less terrified of having a few carbs in their diets, pasta is slowly returning to its position as a pantry staple. It only takes ...

Filed under: Hors D'oeuvres, Snacks, Food Porn, Vegetarian, Vegetables, Cheese, Recipes, How To Even people who aren't big fans of artichoke seem to enjoy artichoke dips. The mild flavor of the vegetable and is tender texture blend perfectly with cream cheese, mayonnaise or sour cream - at least one of which is almost always a component of ...

Filed under: Hors D'oeuvres, Food Porn, Vegetarian, Vegan, Vegetables, Recipes Trader Joe's sells some pretty good premade hummus blends in their refrigerated section. I am a particular fan of both the spicy hummus and the tomato and basil hummus, but since so many popular dips are of the spicy variety, I decided to recreate the tomato and ...