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Filed under: Lunch, Dinner, Snacks, Grains, Vegetables, Dairy, Recipes, Baking, Eggs, Condiments, America, Comfort Food It's no secret that I have all kinds of contempt for Sandra Lee. I won't go into my usual rant about how weird it is that her Chanel-quilted headband always matches her too-tight cashmere deep V-neck sweater, matches the drapes ...

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, Recipes, Baking, Broiling, America, Real Kitchens Recently, I mentioned to my mom that I had an eggplant in my fridge that needed to be used. She started telling me about a recipe that a friend had given her back when she was first married for broiled eggplant. She remembered it being delicious. I didn't pay a ...

Filed under: Lunch, Dinner, Dessert, West Coast, Restaurants, Grains, Vegetables, Nuts/seeds, Beef, Recipes, Baking, Raves & Reviews, Newspapers, Lists, Boiling, Condiments, America, Spices, in sixty seconds, Slow cooking, Meat, Rice It's an endless summer in LA: He's a ''kid'' in LA, but Matt Molina is running the kitchen at the ...

Filed under: Dinner, Baking, Raves & Reviews, On the Blogs, America, Comfort Food, Real Kitchens I started reading blogs sometime around the beginning of 2003 (looking back, it seems inconceivable that there was ever even a time when I wasn't read blogs, so thoroughly have they become part of my life). One of the very first food blogs I ...

Filed under: Dinner, Vegetables, Dairy, Recipes, Baking, America, Real Kitchens Sunday night I pulled together an improvised baked veggie dish that took inspiration from ratatouille and the lasagna that my mom used to make when I was little. I thinly sliced half of a sizable zucchini, along with an eggplant that had been withering away in my ...

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: 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, Dessert, Food Porn, On the Blogs Cold (and wet, depending on where you live) winter weather tends to make us crave hot, hearty foods, but that doesn't do anything to diminish the appeal of something light for dessert after a heavy meal. In fact, a bright cirtus dessert can serve as a reminder that spring is still on the way ...

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 ...