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Does cooking make you happy?
I actually really enjoy the rhythmic elements of cooking. I like stirring and I love pounding dough, or forming dumplings with my hands, and I also love arranging food on a platter. I like chopping less... maybe because I have to...
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What book are you reading?
Abyssinian. “As I mentioned the other day, I try not to eat anything with a face," I said, “Which is why I had the asparagus and truffles last night, and the stir-fried vegetables.” “Yes, sir.” “Nor anything with legs.” “Yes, sir.”...
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What is the one spice in your cupboard you seldom use but if you threw it away you think you may need it?
Yes, my husband prefers it to cornstarch on the rare occasion that he cooks. I’ve never used it all and never heard of it used for anything else – but alas it sticks around just in case he wants to stir fry and...
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Coerced into Cheesecake Factory
They have a Spicy Cashew Chicken that I really like. It is lightly breaded chicken breast that is stir fried in a fantastic spicy sauce, tossed with cashews, green onions and sesame seeds and served over a huge bowl of rice. I...
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Super Suppers/My Sister's Kitchen
, and actually stirs the pot. And we almost always have the IPOD palying with music. He lves it at times. I am home with him and make him a healthy – from scratch – breakfast, lunch and 2 snacks. But when evening...
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Married a Meat and Potatoes Man....Help!
you make. Perhaps once or twice a week you can do a favor and cook something you especially know that he will like. I did recently have good luck serving a meat-n-potatoes uncle some stir fry beef and broccoli and some shrimp with...
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Rant: What is WRONG with the canned cranberry people?
sorry if i steered you wrong...i guess after so many years i don’t really remember the OS product so accurately! oops :) i’m glad you’ll find other uses for it – i always stir these things into yogurt,...
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Most useless kitchen gadget?
sale. Stuff from this string I use with great frequency: the citrus reamer the bread machine (time it so you wake up to baking bread smell!) the spoon rest (are you kidding me? where do you put the wooden spoon after stirring the...
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Thanksgiving Dinner ideas
chicken necks and gizzards to make a rich stock and make my gravy from those. You can always stir in some pan drippings at the last minute... NO canned gravy and no stress...
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cooking for non-foodies
means “mashed, baked, or fried”... and apple pie means “apples, sugar, flour, butter and cinnamon only”. I have a friend who’s the chicken person. Parmigiana, breaded-and-deep-fried, barbecued, in...
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new to (west) LA
. (Olympic & La Grange), West LA Little noodle shop that sells huge, yet inexpensive bowls of ramen soup, stir-fried noodles and gyoza. Has its haters on CH, but I’m not enough of a noodle snob to care. Ramen $5.00. Nijiya Market...
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market watch: Jackson Heights
...maybe a combination of potato and yuca? . It was definitely a lot of food, next time i’d get the $6 platter. Today definitely stirred my interest in exploring Corona. Thanks again.
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Which foods taste WORSE organic?
taste better than some conventionals, and vice versa, but no global statement will work for wine... peanut butter is sort of an aquired taste... and don’t be grossed out by the oil separation. just stir it back in... the...
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Highland Kitchen ?
>Sazeracs at Highland Kitchen When I went, they were making them with Angostura bitters instead of Peychauds (which were listed as an ingredient on the drink list). Also, what is up with them using long coffee stirs as tail straws?
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Please post one NEW chowish find
Everyone talks about the tiger tears from Floating Rock in Revere, but I really like the Cambodian Style Pad Thai, which is steamed instead of stir fried, and it comes with pickled cucumbers and hard boiled egg (plus all the...
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