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.
Lehman Crumbles pack a lemony filling in a cookie crust with a dusting of toasted almonds and powdered sugar. Bad business - good cookie.
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Russ Parsons’ book “How to Pick a Peach” proved the best match on two of the recipes, a tomato tart built on supermarket puff pastry, and a plum cornmeal buckle.
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Now I know how to deal with those scaly green monsters: Cut out their hearts. Dunk chunked squash into a garlicky brine, spiced as you desire. Wait three days.
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Here’s how to bring the Brussels sprout back from childhood ban lists: Don’t boil them. Pan-braise the little cabbages in a touch of Dijon cream, and shazam!
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Corn chowder is a warming, welcoming soup that’s full of veggie goodness for the vegetarians but so hearty the carnivores won’t notice.
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Jalapenos and vegetables warm to the embrace of spices and vinegar in this versatile pickling method. They’re good in a few days and perfect in a week or two.
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One of the simplest soups, smooth carrot and sweet potato spiked with ginger and a bit of curry pack lots of flavor in a vegan soup.
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Made with French lentils that hold their shape when tender, this lentil salad is based on a recipe served by Bouchon, Thomas Keller’s bistro.
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It’s at a little place on Niagara Falls Boulevard just north of Sheridan Drive (1010 Niagara Falls Blvd., 836-5858). Called Koreana, it dishes up homestyle Korean to college students and families, mostly, many with links to the nearby University at Buffalo.
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Turn the potatoes evey 10 minutes or so, as they lose water and start to get sticky. After 20 minutes, add the carrots. After 30 minutes, the sweet potatoes. Don’t crowd the pan, and keep everything to one layer. Browning will only occur when vegetable touches metal.
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