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.
Chunks of tender, spiced pork, braced with sliced pickled jalapenos on a crusty, griddled bun - muy sabroso.
After all that driving around and lame tourist cheesesteak, the best sandwich of my trip was from a little counter in the back of a Mexican grocery, two blocks from Sean’s house.
Jalisco Mexican Grocery (1722 W. Gilpin Dr., [...]
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Neon so over-the-top, it’s almost like they have to compensate for something.
My college buddy Sean was turning 40, down in Wilmington, Del., and I couldn’t miss the wake, er, festivities.
So I made some pork souvlaki and froze it in a quart Ziploc, making it easy to transport in a cooler without worrying about food safety [...]
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Blueberries so plump they threaten to burst, and first-class organic yogurt from a dairy whose cows have names. No high-fructose corn syrup needed.
In Syracuse a few weeks ago, Kathy took me to the farmer’s market located not far from the Galleria Mall. Its breadth and depth surprised me, and made me realize I don’t know [...]
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Crunchy, tasty offerings surround the main event of chicken, egg and coconut rice.
Before the summer’s over, I wanted to share the last two dishes of the mindbending meal I shared with my friend Bud at Fatty Crab.
The third dish was Bud’s choice: Nasi lemak, rice cooked with coconut milk. It’s sometimes called Malaysia’s national dish, [...]
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One way to counterattack overabundant zucchini is to fire up the grill
Kevin Purdy, a journalist working in Niagara County, wrote the following post.
I found 101 Cookbooks about two years ago, while I was desperately searching online for a way to make an interesting dish out of quinoa, a grain my wife adores and I thought [...]
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The red smoke ring is there around the Dinosaur’s brisket, but its loose texture and lack of flavor intensity makes me wonder if there’s steaming involved.
A couple weeks ago I was in Syracuse for the weekend. As is so often the case, that meant I spent part of the weekend at the Dinosaur.
For most of [...]
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This dish deserved better than a plastic fork.
My mission to find the most praiseworthy Chinese dishes in Western New York continues.
Today, a few words about the dong po pork at Gin Gin.
Dong po pork is pork belly braised in a five-spice broth, then chopped and stir-fried with big black (formerly dried) mushrooms. It goes for [...]
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If you look at the scrape underneath the rosemary sprig, you can see the skins of new potatoes detach easily.
Here’s a recipe guaranteed to allow anyone - even the truly kitchen-phobic - to turn out a stunning dish.
There is only one step of any difficulty. It is the first: Get new potatoes. That means potatoes [...]
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