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I’m reblogging @FoodieFatale ‘s excellent cannoli creation myth. Delicious and naughty. Nice work Joce and Gwen. http://foodiefatale.com/?p=32
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Rethinking Chicken Feet
For many American diners whose ethnicity doesn’t include Chinese, rethinking chicken feet will come only with great difficulty, because they have never thought of eating chicken feet in the first place. I am sympathetic to this viewpoint, but, being a somewhat intrepid culinary explorer, I have not shied away from trying them myself. To this day chicken feet remain my proof-positive that...
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Quick Question-
Chicken molé pizza with red beans. Genius or mad scientist? Photo forthcoming.
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Canned Tuna Round-up
Let me begin by stating the obvious. There are two camps in the world of canned tuna consumers, those who prefer water-packed tuna and those who prefer oil-packed tuna. Mostly, the water-packers imagine they are avoiding unnecessary calories as they attempt to choke-down indigestible chunks of concretized fish. Now you can guess in which camp I have placed my mayonnaise. There are two problems...
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Cavity Search: How to Roast a Chicken
Dear Reader, It is possible that you, like The Obsessed Chef, are already in possession of your own personal technique for roasting a chicken that affords you the boasting rights to claim ‘it’s perfect every time.’ Should that not be the case, I urge you to try this method. While there are advantages to roasting a bird on a rack, this technique utilizes the Dutch oven. There...
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Mesa Coyoacan: Great Mexican in Williamsburg with... →
This is the Pescado a la Plancha. A delicious fresh red snapper. Served with cactus salad and guacamole and warm flour tortillas. Below is the Mixiotes. Concealed in the banana leaf is a lovely pulled lamb, in the ropa vieja style, spiced delicately with chili, perhaps some chocolate and something like cinnamon or cardamom. Didn’t think to ask. Accompanied by habañero salsa, black beans and...
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Dishwasher Loading is A Live Topic →
I was checking Google search to see if any of my dishwasher-loading posts made it into the top pages, and it turns out that this is an extraordinarily popular topic. Go ahead and google ‘loading the dishwasher.’ It’s insane. Probably all of the links are from obsessives who believe in algorithm-based loading techniques. I doubt the ‘toss-it-in-and-lock-it-shut’ crowd...
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Meat Thermometer Attack →
On a related note, here is a story about a stabbing with a meat thermometer. What kind of person brings a meat thermometer to  movie?
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Scrapple: You Gotta Have Heart Once a year I run my Scrapple Challenge. It begins in the evening, when, after dinner, I share the mysteries of this delightful mid-Atlantic breakfast treat. It’s a beach house weekend and everyone will retire at their own hour and rise leisurely the next morning, only to find the scrapple fairy has come to visit in the wee hours. The mysteries I allude to...
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Dueling Mandolines
Perhaps it will come as no surprise when i say ‘you get what you pay for.’ There are, of course,  exceptions- we call them ‘bargains.’ In the case of mandolines, however, it is best to think long-term and to amortize the cost over the lifetime of this exquisitely useful device. Don’t get me wrong, I like knives, but for the speed and the uniformity of cut, the...
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Winter White Crunchy Salad
I made this for a Christmas eve dinner. It’s a nice refreshing salad that is sure to be unlike anything anyone else brings to the table. I didn’t snap a photo, so I’ll have to make it again. Ingredients: 3 Pears 1 4-inch spherical jicama 8 large sunchokes (Jerusalem artichokes) 1 bulb fennel ginger walnut oil lemon juice St. Germain liqueur Preparation: Peel the...
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