The San Francisco Chronicle tasks its Taster’s Choice panel with ranking the turkey bacon brands. Short version? If your fork can’t touch pork, Oscar Meyer’s Louis Rich brand wins by, like, a lot. And if you shop at Kroger, definitely skip the house label. (via) (photo)
“It takes a special kind of nutjob to attempt every recipe in The French Laundry Cookbook,” Carol Blymire writes on French Laundry at Home, where she did exactly that. Start with her recap and retrospective, then work your way back through all the brilliant success and maddening kitchen sadism. (via) (pic)
Zilly Rosen, a cake artist from OBK’s home base of Buffalo, NY, leaves us nearly without words with her 1,250-cupcake Obama portrait. Read how she did it at Cupcakes Take the Cake.
The Rue Franklin’s foie gras torchon is an appetizer that takes teamwork, and two days, to bring to the plate.
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My carne asada recipe marinates beef in Mexican spices - ground chile, cilantro, garlic, lime and orange juice - grills it til crusty and chops it for tacos.
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With a homemade spit and a pork marinade featuring pineapple and three different kinds of chiles, this recipe packs authentic al pastor flavor.
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You can build your own upright rotisserie for making authentic gyros, shawarma and tacos al pastor, by retrofitting a common American kitchen appliance.
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Slices of pork marinated in chiles, spices and ever some pineapple juice, crisping around the edges until it’s shaved off onto a tortilla: Meet al pastor.
This is what happens when you live in Buffalo, N.Y. and have been plagued by recurring, intrusive thoughts of tacos al pastor:
You get busy.
Surely, you murmur to yourself as you [...]
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