Monday, October 8, 2007

Pear-licious recipe development

(Image from USA Pear media library) Its FINALLY starting to cool off to a seasonal fall temperature around here, helping me feel a bit more in-season. The tree colors peaked this weekend, yesterday was psychedelic with the riotous oranges, yellows, and reds of the sugar maples around here. Other than pumpkins and gourds and squashes [...]

Pear-licious recipe development

(Banana tart with soybean praline base, enrobed with banana chocolate sauce) Nuts, especially peanuts and walnuts, are lethal for my oldest child. They are also delicious, found in many of the desserts that make life worth living, and are almost impossible to simulate. I do not like peanut butter, don’t miss it, but I have always felt [...]

Nuts for nutty nut-less decadence
Sunday, June 17, 2007

Fresh Is Out: Canned Is In

Because this is my own little nano-bully pulpit, I have to relate something I overheard at the grocery store the other day. I have been trying to come to terms with what was said and how I have been reacting to it, over time. This post is part of that process. Your comments [...]

Fresh Is Out: Canned Is In

(Apple Dumpling with vanilla ice cream and cheddar cheese) Here in central Massachusetts, we have an abundance of apple orchards. When tourists come to this region in the summer, they expect to do a few very specific things – buy antiques, pick apples, visit 18th century New England at Old Sturbridge Village, and enjoy a rural [...]

Local Food: Brookfield Orchards in Brookfield, MA: a phototour
Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Fruity stragglers

I am posting a few stragglers that have come out of my recent experiments to wrap them up. Tomorrow I will be going to the Photoshop World show in Boston so I will be a bit out of the loop. I hope to be able to snag some software that I need to get back to [...]

Fruity stragglers
Turkey en Croute (Baked Turkey Dumplings)
Posted on Dec 13
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Turkey en Croute (Baked Turkey Dumplings)

In a fit of poorly guided frugality, I bought some ground turkey recently. I have to mention that turkey is not my favorite food for one serious reason – if I eat roasted turkey two days in a row I become violently ill, an eruptive experience that is accompanied...

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Simplicity – homemade egg pasta
Posted on Dec 07

Simplicity – homemade egg pasta

Some foods, like homemade bread, are more than just “cooking” and can be more like therapy. Pasta is like this. I was raised in a family where pasta was considered junk food, needless carbohydrates (obviously, we are not Italian or Asian!). In Colombia, the starch of choice is rice and various...

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The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Eating Raw: A Review
Posted on Dec 06

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Eating Raw: A Review

[This was cross posted at my raw food blog Raw+Simple] I had an opportunity to dive into the book, written by by Mark Reinfeld, Bo Rinaldi, and Jennifer Murray, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Eating Raw. I had not previously read one of these Idiot’s Guides but I found that they use...

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Samsung BestBuys contest winner is …
Posted on Nov 17
by Nika in contest

Samsung BestBuys contest winner is …

Thanks again to you all for entering the Samsung BestBuys contest run on this blog and also other bloggers in the BlogHer network. 896 people commented before the end of the contest. As per contest rules, I used the random number generator to select a number that indicated the comment that...

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Last day of contest!
Posted on Nov 15
by Nika in contest
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Last day of contest!

[This contest is now CLOSED. Please click here to see who the winner was.] Well, today the time has come, the final day of the Samsung BestBuy contest! You can enter to win a $200 gift certificate from BestBuy up until 5pm PST or 8 pm EST this evening. You...

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Bright Spicy Holiday Desserts – Bon Appetit Contest
Posted on Nov 01

Bright Spicy Holiday Desserts – Bon Appetit Contest

I have entered this post into the annual Bon Appetit Holiday Dessert Bake-Off and I would be deeply thankful if you would follow THIS LINK and vote for my entry! I have been fretting over this post for DAYS. I have been conceptualizing, racking my culinary brains, wondering if this entry...

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POM Iced Coffee
Posted on Oct 27

POM Iced Coffee

Does the idea of mixing pomegranate juice with iced coffee make your eyes bug out like the cute little lamby slippers above? POM has done this craaazy thing with their POM iced coffees. .. (click for more)...

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Fermented Colombian Sausages: Salchichas
Posted on Oct 10

Fermented Colombian Sausages: Salchichas

When I went to see Sandor Ellix Katz speak about Wild Fermentation (Sandor Ellix Katz and the Wild among us) I heard him mention that he was getting into wild fermented meats. This reminded me of my childhood when we would make Colombian fermented sausages called salchichas or chorizos. I...

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Samsung Range and Microwave Spectacular
Posted on Oct 05
by Nika in review

Samsung Range and Microwave Spectacular

(This is a compensated review from BlogHer and Samsung Home Appliances) [This contest is now CLOSED. Please click here to see who the winner was.] At the end of this post I will share with you how you can win a $200 gift certificate from BestBuy! You will see that you’ve got...

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Are you a frugaltarian?
Posted on Oct 04
by Nika in recipe

Are you a frugaltarian?

If you choose to delve deeply enough, you will find a food-atarian of every sort out there! If you are a foodie, you like know most of the sorts, I dont need to get pedantic about it. Amongst the various types of -tarianisms that I play with, the one that...

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