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This recipe was first featured my 8/6/09 post: http://theunemployedchef.blogspot.com/2009/08/another-meaningless-post-of-my.html It's quick, easy, and delicious--and unlike most of my recipes, it's actually healthy!
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If you have Mexican friends or married into a Mexican family you know that to us pretty much all of life's events give us cause for a celebration. Parties for everything, food is an absolute must, singing and dancing and party until the sun comes up (lite…
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I have been going mad with the convenience of puff pastry lately. I have been eating puff pastry with either just the custard or filling it with some sort of fruit like my previous puff pastry with apple post. This time I have made it with custard and man…
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When I am having a very busy day I will buy some gourmet store bought pastries and embellish them with fresh flowers and arrange them in a beautiful way then I make a quick healthy dinner and everyone is thrilled visit my blog at www.theparishouse.com to…
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I don’t know about you but in the last few years I have become a beet lover. I never used to be but if there are beets on the menu I order them. And I always have beets at home for my cravings. You will notice I will post several different beet recipes…
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Today's post is a back to basics cooking lesson, How to boil an egg. The perfect boiled or hard boiled egg is when the egg is cooked all the way through and the yolk is golden , there shouldn't be a grey/green ring around the yolk. To me if a hard boiled…
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In Thai cuisine curry paste is an essential ingredient to prepare many dishes but of course the main dishes being curries. There are several paste, red, yellow, green, Panaeng and the more Indian influenced Massaman curry paste. I've made them all except…
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Cooking news, recipes and opinions, brought to you by Mike Grant aka thecatcancook. This blog is updated frequently and is open to all manner of food discussion via the comments. I surf the web and clip recipes for my later reference and post news ti…
http://wiseanticsoflife.blogspot.com
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family recipes, frugal tips and an occasional random post
http://mestattua-teuraslihaa.blogspot.com/
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Freaking great foods and tasty cakes in every post! Each post is written in finnish, so google translator helps you if you don't understand finnish language :) Eat, think, sleep, repeat! Heading for decapitation ;)
http://hometowngirl.typepad.com
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I love to blog about what I'm making I have at least a post or two a week about things I cook or bake along with my vintage finds & new creations.
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Sushi Vids is a blog dedicated to Sushi. The "how to make sushi" in an informational and video format. Each post consists of a quality picture, descriptions, instructions and a video tutorial to make everything clear and easy. Weekly posts. Somet…
http://feedingtheravenoushorde.blogspot.com
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I am a diverse home cook who loves making new recipes and changing them up a bit. I have a horde of 4 very ravenous kids so we like to keep things fresh in the kitchen. Teaching my boys (and girl) to cook is important to me and they usually help ou…
http://thomastheaccidentalgourmet.blogspot.com/
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Musings on Life and Food
Unfortunately, I don't necessarily have a life plan. Or a dinner plan for that matter. Luckily for me, things work out most of the time.
I'll be posting some musings on food, eating, and life in general. Hopefully, som…
http://snookiecollins.blogspot.com
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Hmmm, how to describe my blog.
Well, I do talk alot about my Obsession of course... CUPCAKES!
I post photos of the most scrumptious, delectable, delightful Cupcakes you ever did see.
From the cutesy-patootsy to extremely gourmet sugar-art & fondan…
http://www.theparishouse.com/2011/02/chic-french-cocktail-party.html
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A cooking, baking and lifestyle blog. There is currently a post up pn a Valentine French cocktail party...
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Here I post my family favorites, as well as the recipes I try that I love... I am a former home-ec teacher, current stay-at home mom-chef.
the Italian pantry Dark, musty and cool. Walking in the typical Italian family larder would often evoke fear and mystery. Children were seldom allowed entrance. Selected females were granted access and only for retrieving specific items. Otherwise t (read full article)
The Dishful Thinker has turned the big 21 (+4). In an attempt to distract myself from the inevitable truth that is the “quarter-life crisis,” I planned the big day around food (duh). Since there were plenty of good eats involved, I̵ (read full article)
From the publisher, Bethany House: In 1872, sixteen Civil War widows living in St. Louis respond to a series of meetings conducted by a land speculator who lures them west by promising "prime homesteads" in a "booming community.&q (read full article)
Ease: 5/5 Kid-friendliness: 5/5 Taste: 5/5 Time: 5/5Easiest French Toast!Here's hoping the mother's out there were properly celebrated today for the true heros that you are (My daughter came and wished me a " (read full article)
“Do you know Alan Sillitoe?” aksed Robert [Graves], and added half-seriously, “I invented him. He used to live in Soller in the Fifties, writing I don’t know what you’d call them, fantasies about imaginary countries set in no particular pe (read full article)
In French cuisine, a quiche is a baked dish that is based on a custard made from eggs and milk or cream in a pastry crust. Usually, the pastry shell is blind baked before the other ingredients are added for a secondary baking period. Other ingredient (read full article)
Sausage, fish and beer – German cuisines include much more than these. Germans prefer rich food served in an appetizing way. But this is only a part of the varied and saporous German cuisines. If you really like to indulge in sumptuous and lip-sma (read full article)
I find that in every relationship there is a 'hoarder' and a 'thrower'. In Stephen's and my relationship I just so happen to be the 'thrower' as I greatly dislike amassing huge amounts of stuff. Hence, once the kids have outgrown a particular piece o (read full article)
Someone asked me if the soundtrack to the film Gladiator could be regarded as classical music. Seriously. The conversation turned to the similarities between the battle scene and Mars from Gustav Holst’s Planets Suite. But he also asked if the zit (read full article)
This new post comes from my Mum… Recently was the 78th birthday of a very good friend of mine who originally came from New Zealand’s Coromandel Peninsular in the North Island but has lived in our village for over 25 years. He is also on (read full article)