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Filed under: Dinner, Beef, Cheese, Recipes, Books When it comes to cooking South Beach friendly foods, Scott and I have fallen into something of a rut. We've been eating tons of salads with grilled chicken, chili, turkey burgers (cooked on the ever-handy George Foreman grill) and lots of cauliflower puree (faux-ta-toes!). Last weekend, tired of ...

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: Dinner, Vegetables, Cheese, Recipes, Super Bowl XLII For some reason, Super Bowl foods tend to be pretty meat-centric. When I think game day foods, I think chili (with ground turkey or beef), burgers, steaks or Italian hoagies (also known as subs/grinders/heros/po'boy in other parts of the country) stacked high with salami. But ...

Filed under: Dinner, Vegetables, Cheese, Recipes, Baking, Eggs, America, Comfort Food Sometime last week, while I was on the phone with my mom, she said, ''Just a second, there's a recipe I want to read to you.'' Pulling out an ancient pumpkin cookbook, she proceeded to narrate a recipe that consisted of pumpkin, potato, cheese and egg, all ...

Filed under: Dinner, Vegetables, Dairy, Recipes, Books, Rice Last week Bob wrote a post about how cookbook author Peg Bracken had died. I followed up his post with one of my own that included her recipe for Fake Hollendaise. It was only after that post went up that I noticed that a commenter had specifically asked if anyone had Bracken's recipe ...

Filed under: Dinner, Vegetables, Beef, Poultry, Cheese, Recipes, Baking, Steaming, Rice Yesterday afternoon, I was talking to my mom on the phone as she wandered around her vegetable garden. As we chatted, she discovered a hidden zucchini, tucked behind a pumpkin leaf, that had grown to the size of an adult cat. We quickly decided that this was ...

Filed under: Dinner, Vegetables, Cheese, Recipes, America Until 3:30 pm yesterday, I had had a colander of yellow string beans sitting on my counter since Tuesday evening. Every time I walked into the kitchen, I'd look at them and send them a little unspoken promise that soon I'd turn them into something wonderful. Yesterday afternoon, I decided ...

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: Dinner, Vegetables, Poultry, Cheese, Recipes, On the Blogs I love pizza, but I'm a little tired of the heavy, thick-crust, cheese-laden ones that seems to be the delivery staple over the winter, so I've been searching for some thin crust varieties that have just a sprinkling of fresh toppings and use various sauces. In my quest, I ran ...