Curried Chicken Salad
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My favorite Curried Chicken Salad has chicken, asparagus, pine nuts, and a
creamy lemony dressing with curry flavors and a touch of mustard! And curry
fa...
When Last We Spoke, Or, Saturday Morning at 9:23am
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Most of all I hope you all are well as we can be in this time. A bit of a
housekeeping aside. I have realized I need to expand my process, by which I
mea...
Peach and Blackberry Slab Pie
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This peach and blackberry slab pie is a rectangular pie with a higher crust
to filling ratio that easily serves a crowd. Jump to Recipe Peach season is
J...
Spring 2026 Book Tour news!
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May 5th: Release of The Great Book of Chocolate which is now available for
pre-order from your local independent book seller as well
as Bookshop, Amazon, a...
5 tips for terrific potato salad
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[image: 5 tips for terrific potato salad]
Potato salad is potato salad, right? Maybe not. There are lots of ways to
make cut up, boiled potatoes into a del...
Black Lentil Curry
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I don't consider myself a superstitious person, but for whatever reason
when it comes to starting a new year, I suddenly become irrational. I look
for sign...
Hello world!
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Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then
start writing!
The post Hello world! appeared first on oysterfoodandculture.com.
Quinoa Salad with Grilled Vegetables
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[image: Gorgeous gluten-free quinoa with grilled vegetables- perfect
summer fare.]
Beautiful Quinoa Salad with Grilled Veggies.
But first a note---
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Podcasts Now: Things I Want To Listen To
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What I’ve been listening to / What’s inspiring me / What I’m looking
forward to exploring. Every so often I go through a listening lull,
realizing that I...
Quesillo Canario Recipe: Canarian Style Flan
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One of the most delicious desserts I tasted in Tenerife was a traditional
Canarian flan. I have a love-hate relationship with flan--sometimes it's
incred...
Sevilla, Córdoba & Granada
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My dear friend Maureen was on the Continent this winter, and, as I usually
do when an American friend crosses the Atlantic, I chose to...
Cream cheese and guava paste pastries
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This flavor combo (cream cheese and guava paste) is one I recently
discovered in Mexico. I was there just a few weeks ago for Spring break,
and tried it ...
Foolproof Chocolate Fudge
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In my new cookbook, New England Desserts, I have a recipe for old-fashioned
chocolate fudge made with pure sugar, butter, and cream (and chocolate, of
cour...
Hazelnut and Caramel Cookies
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[image: Hazelnut and Caramel Cookies] These cookies couldn’t be more
different than the way they started out. First they were the hazelnut
thumbprint cooki...
Best Fruit Juices for Health
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You need to focus on only harvesting fresh juices, as best fruit juices
for health while leaving the pulp to exploit their advantages. Anything
ingest...
A Weirdly Normal-Feeling Day of Cheese
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Yesterday was the first day since the March lockdown that it felt like a
normal, pre-COVID day at work. People were happy, asking questions about
food, loo...
How to Fry an Egg Perfectly Every Time
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Here's how to fry an egg perfectly. No more chewy or overcooked whites!
The post How to Fry an Egg Perfectly Every Time appeared first on Sophisticated
...
Leftovers à la française
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In the family, we rapidly nicknamed my mother “la reine des restes” (the
queen of leftovers) because she’d make a point of keeping every scrap of
food, kee...
Rice cakes with yellow chives and mushrooms
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One of the glories of East Chinese cooking is its artistry with rice,
particularly sticky rice.
In other parts of the country these grains are turned in...
General Tso's Cauliflower and Tofu
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[image: General Tso's Cauliflower and Tofu | Appetite for China]
Last summer I started teaching a Vegan Chinese Cooking class at Brooklyn
Brainery.
Ever...
Don’t Forget the Smaller Museums in Paris
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They might be small dots the Paris tourist maps and they show up on a
zoomed-in Google map. Yup, they’re right there. It took me a while to “get
it” but i...
The language of food 2018.
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After leaping a year, we are delighted to announce there will be two
Language of Food workshops at the Anna Tasca Lanza Cooking school in Sicily
this year....
Instant Pot Vietnamese Yogurt Recipe
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I eat yogurt for breakfast most mornings. It’s not glamorous but it’s
healthy and easy to assemble a bowl of muesli, fruit, yogurt, and honey. I
add a heap...
Personals history
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I moved to San Francisco in 1991. At the time, I was freelancing in
theater, doing sets and props. The work was sparse, and the pay was
abysmal, but San Fr...
b. patisserie Chinese New Year pastries
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You don’t have much time, only until February 12, to taste Belinda Leong’s
2017 repertoire of Chinese New Year pastries at her insanely busy shop, b.
patis...
Keeping up
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For readers who would like to keep up with my second act as I build my
volunteering life, I'll be posting updates about my progress on my blog
Lydia Likes ...
Smoked Oysters
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Delicately smoked oysters are a fantastic appetizer or snack, and are great
on pasta.
The post Smoked Oysters appeared first on Hunter Angler Gardener C...
Rave Review for SHARE
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In a few weeks, my latest cookbook collaboration, SHARE with Chopped
regular Chris Santos, and one of world's top chefs, will be released.
Publisher's Wee...
Cocoa Date Balls
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Most nights, dessert consists of a handful of nuts and a few pieces of
good dark chocolate. But every so often, I get cravings for something more
substant...
Chard and Potato Gratin
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Whenever I see a really nice bunch of chard at the Farmers Market, I make
this wonderful Chard and Potato Gratin. The recipe is from Georgeanne
Brenna...
Help! I’m trapped in this blog
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I got an email the other day from a guy who said, “You never tell anyone
what you’re up to anymore.” Good point, guy. So here I am, blowing up your
RSS. Mo...
Maple, Hazelnut and Amaranth Granola
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Here’s a super tasty, delightfully crunchy, and exceptionally nutritious
granola to start off the day. One more selling point: amaranth, an ancient,
glut...
Summer fruit: apricot and noyeaux tarts
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Waste not, crave not. Particularly true when it comes to apricots, which,
inside their stone, hide a sweetly bitter little nut born to make all foods
more ...
Talking Trash: Blackberry and Buckwheat Scones
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Scones are sort of a brunch band-aid for when you and someone in your group
has been involved in a shadowy game of throwing shade. A peace offering, o...
Cauliflower Makes The New York Times!
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I was sitting on the beach sipping a margarita in Isla Mujeres, Mexico and
The New York Times called and asked for a recipe. It turns out that
roasting ...
Lamb Chops Done Right
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Like many Americans, I didn’t grow up eating lamb. I was well into my 20s
before I realized what I was missing, and now I seem to be making up for
lost tim...
Good Sauce, Fancy Booze
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From 1983 - an unusual green sauce, requiring all manner of interesting
herbs And a stunningly expensive bottle of booze (and remember, this is
1983 dollars).
Glastonbury Festival 2015
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[image: IMG_0078]
Oh Glastonbury, you got me again. I thought this second visit would be so
much easier than the first - we were staying inside the festiva...
Our Bargain, Senior Friendly, Four Months in Europe
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Hotel Imperial, ViennaOur Room Last year, we cashed in on our points and
miles to take an extended tour of Europe. We went to (in order): Barcelona,
Vienna...
On a Quest to Preserve Traditional Ethiopian Spices
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It is hard to overstate the importance of spice blends in Ethiopian dishes.
Far from adding a sprinkle of flavor at the end of cooking, they constitute
the...
Bean Month Giveaways
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*Heirloom Beans by Wendy MacNaughton*
To celebrate the final week of Bean Month, a bunch of wonderful folks have
contributed some fantastic, leguminous pr...
Cooking for crowds
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My cookbook collection grows. When we moved into this flat four years ago,
I brought with me a desert island stash. The bare minimum of books I needed
fo...
ItaLingua Fundraiser and Auction
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As many of you in the Bay Area knows, ItaLingua is an award-winning school
of Italian language and culture, serving students in San Francisco and
Berkeley....
Things to Eat at the End of the World
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This summer, my Dad’s tomato garden was quite possibly the best I’ve ever
seen. Abundant and generous far and long beyond the summer season. My
lycopene in...
Guess what? I wrote a cookbook!
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Hi y’all! It’s been a while since I’ve posted on this space – mostly I’m
over at I am a Food Blog now, but I wanted to share some exciting news…I
wrote a c...
A Moving Moment
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Dear friends, I've finally moved my blog to my website! Cruise
around alicemedrich.com while you are at it, and notice that my next
book, Flavor Flours wil...
Two Ways for Having Coffee
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The east expanded westward. He sat there, head tilting towards low
chevrons. So much in the distance that eyes cannot cover alone. Geese
stayed in formatio...
A parting gift
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From its beginnings a little more than five years ago, The Skillet
Chronicles has been great fun. For a veteran food journalist used to
working in collabo...
Pick Something And Do It
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Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Development Associate. Freelance Writer. Teacher. Content Production
Manager. Farmers’ M...
A Tuscan doing BBQ/1
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Barbecue - or BBQ, or barbie, or Q, *if you are into the whole brevity
thing* (cit.) - is probably the one cuisine which is quintessentially
American. Thi...
Retro Russian River
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I've spent much of the summer up at Sonoma County's Russian River, which
seems to undergo transformations every few years (the latest is an influx
of San ...
Market day with camera...
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Last Saturday, we remembered to bring the camera with when we went to set
up at the Albert Lea Farmers' Market with Mom. She hauls a large white
beast of a...
Vintage Cave
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“I want to open my own place by the time I’m 30.” – Chris Kajioka —– Every
once in a while, something happens that takes you by surprise. If not for
yourse...
Christmas Care Package for Law Students
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[image: Christmas care package]
My college best friend is currently in the Midwest with her other half
studying for their law degree. I caught the travelin...
Our Kickstarter Update
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10 Days to go on our project and we're 25% funded. This project has been a
rewarding collaboration between friends and its been amazing to see who has
mad...
Awesome Shit That I Want Monday
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You may be aware that both Brian and I are big nerds, although in different
ways. I’m a bookish history dork, and he’s a fantasy game-lover. And what
are f...
Detour ahead...Here comes The Urbane Grandmother
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Dear Culinary Muse readers, As you have probably realized by now, The
Culinary Muse is on sabbatical. I would like to invite you to my new site
The Urbane ...
leckerli for the holidays or every day
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As you must know by now, I grew up in Paris, France, but spent my idyllic
childhood summers in Switzerland,where my grand parents had a chalet tucked
betw...
Doña Tomás, Oakland
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I'm trying a new format. I realized that if I try and *write* about these
meals, I will never wind up posting anything. So, for now, let's just go
with pho...
Kale: Caldo Verde – Portuguese “Green” Soup
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Caldo verde is a Portuguese cabbage (kale) and potato soup. It’s considered
a national dish of Portugal – enjoyed both at home and in fine restaurants.
It'...
Liang Pi
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Liang pi is a noodle-like Chinese dish made from wheat or rice flour. It is
a specialty dish originating from the Chinese province of Shaanxi, but [Read
...
Five Years and a New Chapter (and Blog)
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It all started with my first post featuring my pork and peaches stir-fry
recipe. It was my attempt to impress readers to this blog that I could be
creative...
Coca-Cola Baked Ham
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If it's Easter, then it must be time for chocolate bunnies, peeps, and
baked ham. I'm not usually a big fan of baked ham as I find it a bit too
"hammy."...
New blog location
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For reasons that remain unclear, my forward to my updated blog site stopped
working. So come check out http://kathleenflinn.wordpress.com
Subscribe to Eat...
Love and Meatballs
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*[the following story recently appeared in Toque Magazine --
http://www.toquemag.com/]*
Every Thursday afternoon when I was growing up, my mother would t...
Epicuring Blog
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What is Epicuring? Susie Wyshak and I had a great idea borne of
frustration. We're always look for intriguing food experiences in
California -- but there i...
Muffin Variations
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Elise’s Lemon Poppy Seed muffin recipe has remained my absolute go to
muffin recipe, three years and counting. Some fun variations/substitutions
I use in m...
Help the People of Haiti
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The devastation in Haiti is almost beyond imagining. While the media is
covering the disaster extensively, it still seems impossible to comprehend
the ext...
Ten More
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A Toast to the Next Ten
The Twenty-Oh's are nearly done.
Tough for many. Good for some.
With -isms, crises and a bit of warming,
the past ten gave...
Roasted Vegetables
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The roasted vegetables are a great side dish and can be served hot or cold.
We had them for lunch with some artichoke garlic herb bread and sunny side
up e...
Philippines Tops Bourdain’s “Hierarchy of Pork”
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As the No Reservations – Philippines episode gets set to air, Bourdain’s
latest blog post boldly declares that the Philippines is No. 1 in his
so-called “H...