Tag: kdweeks
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February 02, 2008 01:03 PM EST --
I n my house there is one kind of food that is not tolerated -- bland food.
I can stand too much of almost anything, but not enough flavor is an abomination. A sin of omission by commission. Intolerable! . . .
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February 16, 2008 07:42 PM EST --
A s a Southern cook, I have an obligation to attempt to keep track of cookbooks purportedly offering Southern food. This means that The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook by Matt and Ted Lee was on my list . . .
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March 26, 2008 11:42 AM EDT --
O nce upon a time I was the lead singer in an Indonesian rock band in Cairo, Egypt. Bear with me, it's a bit complicated.
At the time my parents were teaching at the American University in Cairo . . .
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April 11, 2008 05:31 PM EDT --
I pictured a mound of overlapping circles of golden-brown potatoes strewn with sprigs of green. Instead, I ended up with a single circle of potatoes surrounding a bird's nest of potato strips. Such . . .
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May 09, 2008 02:20 PM EDT --
T here are foods that make you wonder how they came to be eaten. For instance, raw olives are phenomenally bitter. They have to be cured in salt for several weeks before they're edible. Who figured . . .
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January 04, 2009 11:15 AM EST --
T here are a few recipes I make once a year and only once a year, every year. They all meet my definition of "seriously good" and yet, are so loaded with things like saturated fats that . . .
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April 21, 2008 03:58 PM EDT --
B est I can figure is that I have a food face. I was in the market the other day, looking for a good bunch of asparagus when the woman next to me asked, "How do you cook asparagus?" She went . . .
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February 10, 2008 11:56 AM EST --
This article was originally published on Seriously Good Dec. 23, 2007.
T omorrow is Christmas Eve. If you're at all like me, you've spent the past month obsessing about Christmas . . .
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February 20, 2008 05:10 PM EST --
S ometimes cooking and eating are a matter of faith. Or, perhaps more accurately, a calculated risk. I had a three pound pork loin in my freezer that I needed to do something with but I wanted something . . .
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April 04, 2008 02:30 PM EDT --
L ast week was hellishly busy and up until today, so has this week. That's a good thing because it means I'm making money, but by last Saturday I was a vegetable and that was my only break before . . .
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May 28, 2008 02:18 PM EDT --
M ummo, my mother's mother and the only grandmother I ever knew, made the best fried chicken in the world. The last time I saw Mummo was 30 years ago in her basement apartment in my uncle's house . . .
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June 18, 2008 01:05 PM EDT --
P ulled from the oven, the golden, pregnant crescents glisten with butter. The pastry is so flakey while hot it can barely maintain its shape. Savory steam escapes from vents filling the kitchen with . . .
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June 25, 2008 06:46 PM EDT --
S ummers are marked, in my mind, by a triptych of summer grilling sessions. The first panel is centered on Memorial Day, the official opening of barbequing season. This panel offers scenes of earlier . . .
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June 28, 2008 01:38 PM EDT --
M y family has few traditional recipes. There's Mummo's Bourbon Cake , a Christmas treat that's made Thanksgiving weekend and then aged (with regular shots of bourbon) until Christmas. And . . .
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July 10, 2008 01:27 PM EDT --
S ome folks have a prediliction to addiction and others don't. Those of us who are somewhat obsessive/compulsive have a particular problem with addiction, let this be a warning to you cooks . . .
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July 15, 2008 11:48 AM EDT --
I came home from the farmers' market last Tuesday with a couple of pounds of tomatoes. To some folks, that makes me a brave or foolish man.
So far more than 1,000 people have officially been . . .
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July 17, 2008 01:12 PM EDT --
I n " Fire Builder " I wrote about the barbeques we had when I was a kid. It wasn't unusual for steak to be left over - when you reach into the freezer and pull out a few steaks wrapped . . .
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July 22, 2008 12:43 PM EDT --
I n 1968 I didn't get arrested for skinny-dipping. It was a near thing. It was August and some friends and I were at an anti-Vietnam war rally and when the heat got to be too much we decided to take . . .
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July 31, 2008 12:50 PM EDT --
I n theory, a perfectly balanced meal includes some protein, but not too much; a vegetable or two; some fruit and a carbohydrate. Such a meal also should balance tastes - savory, a little sour or bitter . . .
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August 06, 2008 02:23 PM EDT --
B ack when I was a computer programmer and then editor I would have loved to have had a 9 - 5 job - or so I claimed. A 50-hour week wasn't unusual and even 60-hour weeks were fairly common. On the . . .
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