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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: Lunch, Dinner, Grains, Vegetables, Dairy, Beef, Poultry, Cheese, Fruit, Pork, How To, Condiments, America, Spices, Meat, Super Bowl XLII ''I already ate dinner...Oh, BYOT? Did you say BYOT?!?! I'll be there in 10 minutes.'' Such was my end of the mobile conversation with my sister last night when she called me over to her place for ...

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, Restaurants, Business, Beef, Cheese, Pork, Television/Film, New Products, America, Health & Medical, Fast Food Aside from an occasional Egg McMuffin hangover cure from McDonald's, or perhaps a very rare moment of utter stress-peration (stressed-out desperation) that drives me to Jack in the Box for two tacos for ...

Filed under: Lunch, Dinner, Restaurants, Beef, Cheese, Far East, Pork, New Products, Meat, Health & Medical, Fast Food Wow. For as much as Japanese cuisine is about delicate, precious presentation and things as simple and stunning as sushi (not to mention healthy), it often makes me laugh to see some of the absolutely ridiculous things that ...