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Fried Green Tomatoes

We always had a little garden when I was growing up. Not like a farm, but just a little plot behind the house, down the hill a bit, under a giant cottonwood tree with a swing tied to its branches. I didn’t really have much to do with the garden, aside from harvesting. My parents [...]

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Easy Stuffed Mushrooms Recipe

Easy Stuffed Mushrooms

This is seriously like the easiest recipe in the universe, but I’ve also said that before about other recipes so you probably don’t want to take that statement literally, but it is super-duper easy. In under 5 minutes, watch as some stuff you found in your fridge turns magically into an appetizer you could take to [...]

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Boneless Buffalo Wings Recipe

Boneless Buffalo Wings

Are you ready for some FREEKZONE!!! Yes? Well, that is fortuitous indeed. Freekzone came over after a long day and made me his special boneless buffalo wings. They were just what I needed: crunchy, spicy, proteiny, fast, and easy. In fact, after his demonstration and my taste-test, I might say that boneless buffalo wings are [...]

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Steamed Pork Buns

Steamed Pork Buns

Happy New Year, Everybody! No I’m NOT reading that calendar wrong. I’m talking about Chinese New Year! Yeah, you read that right. And I made me some dim sum. I shortcutted my way through the dough and the Chinese barbecued pork filling, leaving me plenty of time to roll these babies around my kitchen on [...]

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Fried Calamari

Fried Calamari

If you’ve been keeping up with my Twitter account and FaceBook and Google Plus and all that junk where I post my most intimates, then you know Chris and I just got back from a trip to the Texas Riviera — a.k.a. Port Aransas. We ate a boatload (not literally) of fried seafood while we [...]

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Spicy Parmesan Poofballs, or Gougères

To Begin: Pâte à Choux, aka Choux Pastry I first learned how to make Shoe Pastry when I was living in New Zealand, dating the ChefBoy, and learning all kinds of neat-o Real Chef Things. Things such as: It’s actually spelled choux pastry. It took me more time that I care to admit to figure [...]

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Mushroom Duxelles in Puff Pastry

Mushroom Duxelles in Puff Pastry

If you don’t know, duxelles is just French for “mushrooms cooked down into paste”. Mushroom paste? Blech. No wonder they made up a fancy-sounding word for it. But it is yummy if you’re into mushrooms. If you’re not, I completely understand because I have hated mushrooms my whole life until very recently when I had [...]

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Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

Halloween Pumpkin Slaughter!!!

I abhor waste. I roll my eyes every time I see a display of those knobby, gnarly, little decorative gourds and dried miniature corn cobs for sale anywhere. The U.S. is probably the only country that grows food purely for decoration. Not to be a downer on the fall holiday decorating season, but it really, [...]

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