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This post is in: Food, Food & Recipes, Recipe Exchange, yes, I know your recipe is always better than mine
It’s been unseasonably warm here after our early snow in September, so grilling is on the menu. On the board: Spicy Lime Cilantro Chicken Mexican Rice Medley Green Beans Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies (recipe here) Spicy Lime Cilantro Chicken: 4 boneless chicken breasts ½ cup lime juice ¼ cup chopped cilantro ¼ cup sliced pickled …
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This post is in: Food, Nature & Respite, Open Threads
VIDEO: Squinting in concentration, Vietnamese artist Nguyen Thi Ha An drops a bright red chili into a bowl of pho barely bigger than a coin — the finishing touch to a miniature model that's eaten up days of her time pic.twitter.com/HUZ6lXkKWj — AFP news agency (@AFP) August 20, 2020 Food lover knits her favorite snacks …
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by Adam L Silverman| 101 Comments
This post is in: Cooking, Food, Food & Recipes, Open Threads, Recipe Exchange, Recipes
Tamara has asked that I fill in for her this evening, and I did myself no favors by texting her all afternoon about all the food I was preparing today. I have no one to blame but myself. So I have broken out the emergency tiara and let’s get to work! I did several different …
by Major Major Major Major| 180 Comments
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Ketchup has a long history. Its distant ancestor hailed from Fujian, China–a fermented fish sauce known as kê-tsiap. Later innovators like Mary Randolph would popularize a tomato version. By 1896 it was the “national sauce of America”. For whatever reason, I find this all fascinating. I was very happy to learn that Science Friday had …
by Betty Cracker| 167 Comments
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Several years ago in Slate, Tom Scocca sliced Big Onion wide open with an exposé of a damnable lie replicated in innumerable published recipes: Layers of Deceit Why do recipe writers lie and lie and lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? Browning onions is a matter of patience. My own patience ran …
by Adam L Silverman| 217 Comments
This post is in: 2020 Elections, Food, Humorous, Open Threads, Racial Justice
Support Patio Pizza and its wonderful owner, Guy Caligiuri, in St. James, Long Island (N.Y.). Great Pizza!!! @Varneyco — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 30, 2020 Everybody move out sharply! Break For those of you unable to watch (and if you are not watching it, what is wrong with you?!?!?!?!), President Obama just leveraged both …
by John Cole| 37 Comments
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It has begun. Getting the first run of pickles down today, first run of kraut, tomorrow. Game on.