The Amateur Gourmet – The Best of 2007

January 5, 2008

The Amateur Gourmet is one of my favorite food blogs, and this list of their Best of 2007 is full of great stuff. Don’t miss all the fun in the comments! [From The Amateur Gourmet - The Best of 2007]

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Serious Eats: The Serious Eats Hot Chocolate Taste Test

January 3, 2008

Wow, what a great test. I’m going to have to try this! The Girl is an expert chocolate taste-tester, you know. Well, according to her, she is. [From Serious Eats: The Serious Eats Hot Chocolate Taste Test]

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Michael Bauer: Between Meals : Pizza Friday: Gaspare’s

December 29, 2007

Oh, no! The secret is out! For more than 20 years Gaspare’s has been my favorite San Francisco pizza restaurant. The video makes me hungry! [From Michael Bauer: Between Meals : Pizza Friday: Gaspare's] It’s really no secret -the place is packed all the time. Go there for the pizza, but come back and try [...]

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Where what goes…

December 27, 2007

This is a great quick and easy guide to storage of fresh fruit and vegetables… [From Unclutterer » Archive » Uncluttering your refrigerator’s crisper]

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Pig Candy | Bucky’s Barbecue and Bread

December 20, 2007

Wow! Pig Candy! Who’d have thought? Honest truth, though? I sounds good! [From Pig Candy | Bucky's Barbecue and Bread]

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Fabulous authentic thai food

November 16, 2007

The biggest problem with cooking thai food is the ingredients. There are a few that are really required in order to get that authentic taste. If you really want that great thai flavor, you have to at least find fresh thai basil and it’s best if you can also get lemon grass, kaffir lime leaf, [...]

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What to Eat

June 25, 2007

I’ve just started reading “What to Eat”, by Marion Nestle. I’ve seen this book for a while and just sort of skipped by it, expecting that it’s interesting, but mostly a lot of stuff that I already know… Then I heard Marion Nestle on an NPR show. She was being interviewed with Michael Pollan (of [...]

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My kind of Fast Food – Spaghetti Sauce!

March 27, 2007

Lately my lovely wife and I have both been keeping odd hours. It’s tough to eat right when you aren’t even getting home until 8pm or 9pm. Add to that my wife’s “witching hour” problem – she just isn’t hungry once she’s tired. So yesterday I started a big pot of spaghetti sauce. This is [...]

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Ingredients make the difference, right?

July 29, 2006

Most of my food is fresh and flavorful. We live in a part of California that is famous for farmer’s markets and for produce stands on the side of the road. We get fresh fish from the shop on the coast. This year, we might join a Community Supported Agriculture program that will get us [...]

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Omnivores, with a few exceptions…

July 17, 2006

Around our house, just about everything edible is eaten. We love meat and cheese, fresh bread, fresh vegetables, and salads. We love desert, including vanilla Ice cream with chocolate sauce. We don’t diet, but just try to eat sensibly – and for us that means there are a few things we try to avoid.

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