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Filed under: Lunch, Dinner, Fish, Broiling, Frying, Grilling, BraisingNothing tastes like a good blackening. And it's not even hard. Many people shy away from blackened foods, thinking that blackening means charring the meat, the vegetable, whatever is being blackened. Au contraire! Blackening refers to what happens to the Cajun spices! The ...

Filed under: Dinner, Vegetables, Fish I have a secret to share with you all. Most of the time, when I'm just cooking for myself (but want something more than just a bowl of cereal), I recreate the foods I grew up eating (there was a lot of salmon/chicken/turkey burgers paired with broccoli/string beans/zucchini in my childhoo). I don't branch ...

Filed under: Dinner, Fish, Recipes, America, Retro cookery I love old community cookbooks. I pick them up at thrift stores, bookshops and yard sales whenever I can. I especially like the ones from the fifties and sixties, as they allow a peek into the kitchens and dining rooms of a time before food television and the gourmetification of the ...

Filed under: Wine, Beer, Lunch, Dinner, Hors D'oeuvres, Dessert, Vegetables, Beef, Chocolate, Fish, Cheese, Candy, Magazines, Champagne, Lists, America, Europe, Shellfish, Spices, Sugar, Meat If ever you wondered how chefs pair wines with their favorite foods, you can stop wondering now. Forbes has put together a list of celebrity chefs and their ...

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: Vodka, Dinner, Farming, Business, Organic, Vegetables, Beef, Fish, Lists, New Products, America Yes, y'all, we are making way through some earth-friendly products and ways to live as we near Earth Day, which is next Sunday, April 22. We've already seen Green Chocolate from food blogger Sean Timberlake, using bamboo in the ...

Filed under: Lunch, Dinner, Fish, Recipes, Television/Film, Comfort Food After watching an episode of Chef at Home, I've been experimenting with chef Michael Smith's recipe for salmon and potato cakes. The Food Network Canada website has his recipe here, but it looks like they've jumbled a few of the steps around or perhaps left a step out. Step ...

Filed under: Breakfast, Dinner, Dessert, Fish, Recipes, How ToPassover begins on Monday at sundown, and Martha Stewart has planned four menus in celebration - a Traditional Seder Dinner, Spring Celebration, Passover Dessert Buffet, and a Passover Brunch. Even if you aren't planning to prepare kosher food or host a Passover feast yourself, the ...

Filed under: Lunch, Breakfast, Dinner, Hors D'oeuvres, Snacks, Science, Grains, Nuts/seeds, Fish, Fruit, Lists, Health & MedicalYou said ''One of my new year's resolutions is to 'be happier.''' Well, that's all well and good, but you can't just sit there and pout about not being able to figure out how to make yourself happy! Maybe you should ...

Filed under: Dinner, Hors D'oeuvres, Food Porn, Vegetables, Fish More than likely, if you're going to a cocktail party to ring in the New Year tonight, there are going to be lots of little luxurious things to eat. The standard celebratory niblets always seem to be caviar with all the trimmings, some form of foie gras, and truffled shaved on ...