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When you think of the term American cuisine, what often comes to mind first are hot dogs and hamburgers, French fries and apple pie. But there's so much more to American food than that. North American cuisine is a melting pot of different nationalities (such as those hot dogs and hamburgers which came from our German ancestors) and cultures that make it hard to define, yet so interesting to explore.
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Unless you have been living under a rock or have super powers that make you impervious to the ploys of marketing campaigns, you are probably aware that pomegranates are going to help you to live forever. Well, maybe not forever-ever, but it seems it's possible that they can extend your life by lowering blood pressure, reducing the risk of heart disease, fighting prostate cancer and even potentially fighting the bacterial growth of dental plaque. It may have taken us until 2002 to catch onto the importance of pomegranates, but like many things that we think are the new thing...
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Last weekend my older son and I were out for the morning doing weekend errands and just happened to stumble upon a neat little festival. As we zoomed up the road on our way to the closest kiddie shoe store, we passed a local church and just then a lovely sweet odor permeated the car. I looked over and saw a couple of people stirring a big cauldron that was placed over a wood burning fire and many little tables set up with various crafts and assorted goodies. As I drove past the sign announcing an Apple Butter Festival, I screeched the car to a halt and backed up so we could go check..
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My family didn't really celebrate Halloween when I was a kid. My mom didn't like the "evil" association the holiday had with witches, ghosts, and so on. So, instead, we went to our church's "fall celebration," which, ironically, fell on the actual holiday of Halloween, featured a costume contest, and provided vast amounts of candy. Whenever we had a house in a neighborhood (which wasn't often), we usually turned our lights out so trick-or-treaters would leave us alone. If they were the extra determined sort of trick-or-treaters, they ignored the darkened house and came to...
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While we're trying on costumes and dressing up our little pumpkins and witches for a night of trick or treating, just south of the border our neighbors are getting ready for a different kind of spooky festivity, The Day of the Dead. Actually, the scare is all in the name as Day of the Dead is more joyous celebration of relatives who have passed than a fright-fest. Best of all, the day is marked by lots of food, for those dead and alive. The Day of the Dead is best known to us Northerners without Mexican roots as that holiday where people dress up as skeletons...
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Last week we had a little blast from the past learning about how Mable Hoffman revved up interest in the slow cooker with her demos and bestselling cookbooks. She was a popular recipe developer and cookbook author who fired up interest in the (then) new-fangled device of this electric-cooking pot, the slow cooker or crockpot. In the interest of refreshing the best practices for using a slow cooker, I thought it would be interesting to review some basic how-tos for using this handy plug-it-in dinner-maker. For even when we've been using something for years, sometimes...
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Before kids, Halloween used to almost be a bother. It seemed like just another chore, to make sure that I had a basket of treats to hand out to the little ghosts and goblins. Fast forward thirteen years later - after life with kids - and my entire experience of Halloween has evolved. Halloween, a bother? Certainly I was too young to be such a fuddy-dudd. Amazing what fun and learning kids can bring into your life. Take, for example, making punch for a Halloween party. While you could just go with soda or regular punch, it's a prime opportunity for...
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Halloween is a holiday that's fun for all--both kids and kids at heart consider it to be a favorite holiday. While this occasion is a celebration of all things ghostly, it's also the day to enjoy lots of laughs, sugar and treats. Your kids will delight in some of the fun and funky ideas out there for creative Halloween fare, including some of the ones here on CDKitchen. You can base a whole meal around such...
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Something wicked this way comes for dinner this Halloween. Unlike most Halloween meals that embrace the holiday with disgusting-looking but good-tasting fare (think peeled grapes as eye balls and bowls of spaghetti masquerading as guts), this dinner is going to look as good as it tastes. But don't be fooled by its slick veneer. The spread may look heavenly but it is as sinfully delicious as the Devil himself. It is hard to forget the horror of most childhood memories of Halloween-themed meals. Aside from candy and cupcakes, most of the food was meant to be...
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Who doesn't love Italian food? It is certainly one of the most favored cuisines worldwide, with Italian restaurants and pizza shops in every city. And we all know those classic Italian foods: tomatoes, potatoes, pasta, cheese, oregano, and basil. Just that listing is enough to make the mouth water. In the interest of getting dinner on the table most nights, I recently wrote about my plan to try out International Cuisines night. My idea was to try a new and different international twist on a regular everyday food that I may otherwise just drop in the crockpot and forget...
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About this time of year families around the country pack their kids in the car for a trip to the pumpkin patch. Amongst the misshapen orbs, over-sized behemoths, and miniature decorative types, the kids manage to find the perfect pumpkin to bring home. Then, with newspaper spread protectively on the floor, the business of decorating the pumpkin begins. A design is drawn to form some ghoulish or laughable face. Then that very face is scalped so that the guts of the pumpkin creature can be removed. Out come the fibrous bits and seeds, to be heaped to the side to wait...
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I am a bit of an amateur Scotch enthusiast. I developed a taste for it while I was concocting the recipe for my brownies. I generally enjoy my Scotch at home, as going to whisky bars is a rather expensive habit. But when I do, I undoubtedly get the 'Ohhhh!!!!' from the gaggle of men standing at the end of the bar when I order my Islays single malt neat. I guess it's rather unusual for a woman to enjoy Scotch, but what can I say? I know a good thing when I taste it. By definition, Scotch is whisky made from malted barley and housed in oak casks for no less than three...
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Just like the monster lurking under the bed or those things that go bump in the night, there is nothing scarier than the unknown, and that goes for food too. When it comes to food, from childhood we are often conditioned to be scared of everything that looks weird: iridescent purple eggplant, whole cooked fish with heads still attached, spiny green artichokes. Being scared of how a food looks for most of one's young life (and into many adult lives) and thus not eating it just isn't sound policy. There are a whole world of good eats being missed out on, not nearly as scary...
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This week I did something that I think would have surprised myself ten or twenty years ago. I bought a sack of individually wrapped Halloween pretzels to give out along with our Halloween candy! They are cute little pumpkin shaped pretzels and I have to say both my little guys really love them (we may not even have any left to give out!). But when I told my sister about these Halloween "treats" she scoffed at me for being a Halloween buzz-kill. She reminded me that growing up in the same neighborhood as my dentist, we always turned our noses up at the nice fresh apples...
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Do you have loads of candy around the house? It's not even Halloween and the candy is already piling up around here. With an unknown amount of trick-or-treaters coming and various other Halloween activities from which our kids bring home goodies, we have a whole pantry shelf full of candy. Of course, the rule of thumb is the earlier you buy the candy stash, the earlier you start dipping into it. We've been through one bag already. Perhaps like us, you don't know how many trick-or-treaters to plan for. It seems as if, in my neighborhood, every year is so different. Last year...
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October is the month of the pumpkin. With Halloween coming so soon, lots of us are preparing with a visit to the pumpkin patch to find a few choice specimens to decorate, and more importantly, to eat! Pumpkin dishes are fun fall food: pumpkin muffins, pumpkin pancakes, and pumpkin pie, and you can wash it all down with a pumpkin spice latte or pumpkin beer! The culmination of the pumpkin celebration is, of course, carving Jack O' Lanterns for Halloween. But those big carved pumpkins don't yield the best pumpkin for cooking or baking. It's not as sweet and the texture is...
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When you think of the term American cuisine, what often comes to mind first are hot dogs and hamburgers, French fries and apple pie. But there's so much more to American food than that. North American cuisine is a melting pot of different nationalities (such as those hot dogs and hamburgers which came from our German ancestors) and cultures that make it hard to define, yet so interesting to explore.
by
Unless you have been living under a rock or have super powers that make you impervious to the ploys of marketing campaigns, you are probably aware that pomegranates are going to help you to live forever. Well, maybe not forever-ever, but it seems it's possible that they can extend your life by lowering blood pressure, reducing the risk of heart disease, fighting prostate cancer and even potentially fighting the bacterial growth of dental plaque. It may have taken us until 2002 to catch onto the importance of pomegranates, but like many things that we think are the new thing...
by
Last weekend my older son and I were out for the morning doing weekend errands and just happened to stumble upon a neat little festival. As we zoomed up the road on our way to the closest kiddie shoe store, we passed a local church and just then a lovely sweet odor permeated the car. I looked over and saw a couple of people stirring a big cauldron that was placed over a wood burning fire and many little tables set up with various crafts and assorted goodies. As I drove past the sign announcing an Apple Butter Festival, I screeched the car to a halt and backed up so we could go check..
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My family didn't really celebrate Halloween when I was a kid. My mom didn't like the "evil" association the holiday had with witches, ghosts, and so on. So, instead, we went to our church's "fall celebration," which, ironically, fell on the actual holiday of Halloween, featured a costume contest, and provided vast amounts of candy. Whenever we had a house in a neighborhood (which wasn't often), we usually turned our lights out so trick-or-treaters would leave us alone. If they were the extra determined sort of trick-or-treaters, they ignored the darkened house and came to...
by
While we're trying on costumes and dressing up our little pumpkins and witches for a night of trick or treating, just south of the border our neighbors are getting ready for a different kind of spooky festivity, The Day of the Dead. Actually, the scare is all in the name as Day of the Dead is more joyous celebration of relatives who have passed than a fright-fest. Best of all, the day is marked by lots of food, for those dead and alive. The Day of the Dead is best known to us Northerners without Mexican roots as that holiday where people dress up as skeletons...
by
Last week we had a little blast from the past learning about how Mable Hoffman revved up interest in the slow cooker with her demos and bestselling cookbooks. She was a popular recipe developer and cookbook author who fired up interest in the (then) new-fangled device of this electric-cooking pot, the slow cooker or crockpot. In the interest of refreshing the best practices for using a slow cooker, I thought it would be interesting to review some basic how-tos for using this handy plug-it-in dinner-maker. For even when we've been using something for years, sometimes...
by
Before kids, Halloween used to almost be a bother. It seemed like just another chore, to make sure that I had a basket of treats to hand out to the little ghosts and goblins. Fast forward thirteen years later - after life with kids - and my entire experience of Halloween has evolved. Halloween, a bother? Certainly I was too young to be such a fuddy-dudd. Amazing what fun and learning kids can bring into your life. Take, for example, making punch for a Halloween party. While you could just go with soda or regular punch, it's a prime opportunity for...
by
Halloween is a holiday that's fun for all--both kids and kids at heart consider it to be a favorite holiday. While this occasion is a celebration of all things ghostly, it's also the day to enjoy lots of laughs, sugar and treats. Your kids will delight in some of the fun and funky ideas out there for creative Halloween fare, including some of the ones here on CDKitchen. You can base a whole meal around such...
by
Something wicked this way comes for dinner this Halloween. Unlike most Halloween meals that embrace the holiday with disgusting-looking but good-tasting fare (think peeled grapes as eye balls and bowls of spaghetti masquerading as guts), this dinner is going to look as good as it tastes. But don't be fooled by its slick veneer. The spread may look heavenly but it is as sinfully delicious as the Devil himself. It is hard to forget the horror of most childhood memories of Halloween-themed meals. Aside from candy and cupcakes, most of the food was meant to be...
by
Who doesn't love Italian food? It is certainly one of the most favored cuisines worldwide, with Italian restaurants and pizza shops in every city. And we all know those classic Italian foods: tomatoes, potatoes, pasta, cheese, oregano, and basil. Just that listing is enough to make the mouth water. In the interest of getting dinner on the table most nights, I recently wrote about my plan to try out International Cuisines night. My idea was to try a new and different international twist on a regular everyday food that I may otherwise just drop in the crockpot and forget...
by
About this time of year families around the country pack their kids in the car for a trip to the pumpkin patch. Amongst the misshapen orbs, over-sized behemoths, and miniature decorative types, the kids manage to find the perfect pumpkin to bring home. Then, with newspaper spread protectively on the floor, the business of decorating the pumpkin begins. A design is drawn to form some ghoulish or laughable face. Then that very face is scalped so that the guts of the pumpkin creature can be removed. Out come the fibrous bits and seeds, to be heaped to the side to wait...
by
I am a bit of an amateur Scotch enthusiast. I developed a taste for it while I was concocting the recipe for my brownies. I generally enjoy my Scotch at home, as going to whisky bars is a rather expensive habit. But when I do, I undoubtedly get the 'Ohhhh!!!!' from the gaggle of men standing at the end of the bar when I order my Islays single malt neat. I guess it's rather unusual for a woman to enjoy Scotch, but what can I say? I know a good thing when I taste it. By definition, Scotch is whisky made from malted barley and housed in oak casks for no less than three...
by
Just like the monster lurking under the bed or those things that go bump in the night, there is nothing scarier than the unknown, and that goes for food too. When it comes to food, from childhood we are often conditioned to be scared of everything that looks weird: iridescent purple eggplant, whole cooked fish with heads still attached, spiny green artichokes. Being scared of how a food looks for most of one's young life (and into many adult lives) and thus not eating it just isn't sound policy. There are a whole world of good eats being missed out on, not nearly as scary...
by
This week I did something that I think would have surprised myself ten or twenty years ago. I bought a sack of individually wrapped Halloween pretzels to give out along with our Halloween candy! They are cute little pumpkin shaped pretzels and I have to say both my little guys really love them (we may not even have any left to give out!). But when I told my sister about these Halloween "treats" she scoffed at me for being a Halloween buzz-kill. She reminded me that growing up in the same neighborhood as my dentist, we always turned our noses up at the nice fresh apples...
by
Do you have loads of candy around the house? It's not even Halloween and the candy is already piling up around here. With an unknown amount of trick-or-treaters coming and various other Halloween activities from which our kids bring home goodies, we have a whole pantry shelf full of candy. Of course, the rule of thumb is the earlier you buy the candy stash, the earlier you start dipping into it. We've been through one bag already. Perhaps like us, you don't know how many trick-or-treaters to plan for. It seems as if, in my neighborhood, every year is so different. Last year...
by
October is the month of the pumpkin. With Halloween coming so soon, lots of us are preparing with a visit to the pumpkin patch to find a few choice specimens to decorate, and more importantly, to eat! Pumpkin dishes are fun fall food: pumpkin muffins, pumpkin pancakes, and pumpkin pie, and you can wash it all down with a pumpkin spice latte or pumpkin beer! The culmination of the pumpkin celebration is, of course, carving Jack O' Lanterns for Halloween. But those big carved pumpkins don't yield the best pumpkin for cooking or baking. It's not as sweet and the texture is...