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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Pom
If you’ve been around me at all in the last few weeks you’ve heard a lot about pomegranates. That’s because about a month ago I arrived home from work to find a giant box filled two layers deep with pomegranates sent to me by Pom Wonderful. The people at Pom Wonderful decided to host something of a dinner party challenge based around, as you might have guessed, pomegranates. I submitted a proposal for a dinner on their website and was chosen to receive a box of poms and a fistful of coupons for some free bottles of Pom Wonderful juice. Continue reading
Posted in Beer Pairing, Chop, Pomegranate, Pork
Tagged macaron, pomegranate, pork chop, prosecco
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Gels and Jellies: Why They Do What They Do
In anticipation of playing with some gelatin and agar later this week, I decided to do some research on the subject of gelatins. As is usually the case, I realized that all my cooking life I’ve been engaged with the wonders of gelatin but have never taken the time to really try to understand the mystery of how it works. It’s another one of those cooking wonders that we just accept for what it is and move on, using it regularly but never quite knowing how or why it does what it does.
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Mohingar
This was a post I started as an entry for the round of Project Food Blog that I didn't advance to - the photo challenge. I had been spending way too much time with my blog at that point so I decided to take a little break. Speaking of which - thanks for all the support... my silence since then has probably just furthered the point that I'm not a dedicated enough blogger to have deserved to win anyway. It was fun regardless, and got me back to actually posting on here. The first time I had Burmese food was about three years ago. My life was forever changed. Continue reading 
Posted in Burmese, Chicken, Recipes/Instruction, Soup
Tagged Burmese, chicken noodle soup, mohingar, noodles, somen, Soup
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