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Filed under: Lunch, Dinner, Snacks, British Isles, Vegetables, Recipes, Fruit, Books, How To, Boiling, Roasting, America, Europe, Comfort Food, Spices My Slashfood friends, I am a sadist. Or is it masochist? I never knew the difference between the two. Either way, for some reason known only to, well, to no one, I decided to do the most punishing ...

Filed under: Lunch, Dinner, Hors D'oeuvres, Snacks, Food Porn, Vegetarian, Vegetables, Cheese, Recipes, Frying, Spirit of Summer, On the Blogs, How To, America, Europe One of the things with which I have fallen in love in recent history is squash blossoms. When I first encountered these, I was slightly turned off by the idea of eating such giant ...

Filed under: Lunch, Dinner, Hors D'oeuvres, Snacks, Restaurants, Vegetarian, Grains, Cheese, Recipes, Baking, On the Blogs, How To, America, Shellfish, Comfort Food I have an odd fascination with Red Lobster. Actually, it's not a fascination; rather, a depressing history that makes me think about the ''Seafood Lover in You'' a lot. You see, my ...

Filed under: Lunch, Dinner, Vegetarian, Grains, Vegetables, Beef, Fish, Poultry, Far East, Recipes, Pork, On the Blogs, How To, Eggs, Condiments, Shellfish, Comfort Food, Spices There are certain things for which a recipe seems silly because it's more of a formula with variables rather than a specific set of ingredients and techniques -- a salad, ...

Filed under: Lunch, Dinner, Snacks, West Coast, Restaurants, Vegetarian, Vegan, Vegetables, Recipes, On the Blogs, How To, America I recently went to The Penthouse, the new restaurant at the top of The Huntley Hotel in Santa Monica. While the food was a little less than spectacular, the view of the Pacific from that high up was pretty stunning. ...

Filed under: Lunch, Dinner, Food Porn, Vegetarian, Vegan, Vegetables, Recipes, On the Blogs, America A few years ago, I got over my fear of the artichoke. I absolutely love eating artichoke hearts, but I had never before tackled a fresh one myself. That giant bulb, all those spiky leaves, and the warning about the ''choke'' -- I just resigned ...

Filed under: Lunch, Dinner, Food Porn, Vegetarian, Grains, Vegetables, Cheese, Recipes, Magazines, On the Blogs, America, Comfort Food Oh, Slashfood friends, I have Spring Fever. Normally, I don't get such a thing because I live in southern California where it is perpetually Springtime -- or at the very worst, a mild autumn. But it's been ...

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: Lunch, Dinner, Vegetarian, Vegan, Vegetables, Recipes, Fruit There have been plenty of California blood oranges in the markets lately, so this is the second week in a row that I've made this very simple blood orange salad. The basic version that I make at home and usually see in restaurants includes blood oranges and thinly sliced ...