My wife ordered vanilla ice cream with pretzel pieces mixed in, and caramel sauce on top, and was enraptured. It made perfect sense; we all know salt and caramel go great together. The pretzels provide the salt along …
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Enfrijoladas de Espinaca - Tortillas with Spinach in Black Bean Sauce This is my entry for the second Everyday Chef Challenge. Pacific Natural Foods invited me and four other bloggers to participate, and this time we …
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Dave Arnold from the French Culinary Institute recently invented a technique for infusing just about anything (herbs, vegetables, chocolate, …) into booze, water or oil, using nothing fancier than a cream whipper. It is …
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Shiitake and Morel Ravioli in Brodo Pacific Natural Foods invited me and four other bloggers to participate in their Everyday Chef Challenge. (The first challenge is over now, but I'd love to have your vote in the …
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Navajo Fry Bread, and the Indian Tacos made with it, have a sad and storied past. They originated in Native American internment camps set up by the US government in the 1860s, as a way to use the very limited rations …
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Island Style Sweet and Spicy Cabbage More than 20 years ago, I lived in an odd little shared house in Oakland, and one of the other renters was a guy named John, from one of the Caribbean islands. Sad to say, I can't …
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