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Entries Tagged as 'Appetizers'

October 18th, 2009 · 28 Comments · Appetizers, Main Courses

Egg rolls!
Some cooking activities are more fun when done with a group of friends. One of these activities is making egg rolls. The process of chopping the vegetables and forming the egg rolls can be tedious if done alone. With company though, it can be leisurely time spent in the kitchen catching up with news [...]

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August 14th, 2009 · 27 Comments · Appetizers, Main Dishes

Wafu-gyoza
I love dumplings. I really do. But finding the time to make them seems close to impossible. The one time I made wantons were at a friend’s house. It’s always good to make them with a couple of friends since we Asians tend to make a ton of these things at a time and looking [...]

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August 5th, 2007 · 16 Comments · Appetizers, Main Courses

I’m one of the few food-loving folks who did not grow up watching Julia Child though I have known that her name was synonymous for bringing French Cuisine into the American household. Last year, in my search for culinary enlightenment,…

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April 2nd, 2007 · 27 Comments · Appetizers

Last December I was in a cookbook-buying frenzy. A lot of fellow food bloggers would post their must-have cookbooks on their blog and I would eagerly check them out. More often than not, most books on their list ended up…

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December 3rd, 2006 · 11 Comments · Appetizers, Duck

I got alarmed when I read Michael Ruhlman’s piece on MegNut’s site about a certain politician wanting to pass a bill to ban the sale of foie gras in New Jersey (it’s already banned in Chicago). I hope such idiotic…

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November 10th, 2006 · 5 Comments · Appetizers

About two years ago, the “hungry” hubby and I attended an eight-course dinner in honor of Patrick O’ Connell, chef proprietor of the “Inn at Little Washington”. The idea was that eight local chefs were each to prepare a dish…

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September 18th, 2006 · 4 Comments · Appetizers

I was leafing through this yummy book, “Dishing with Style” by Rori Travato last Saturday, wondering what I could cook up with what I have available in the refrigerator. I found a simple yet wonderful recipe involving figs. When I…

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September 11th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Appetizers

As I was walking through the Fresh Market, I saw sorrel in the herb section. I immediately thought of a recipe I saw at Patrick O’ Connell’s book “Refined American Cuisine”. This recipe I am referring to is “Sorrel Jelly…

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September 5th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Appetizers

I created this dish from Patrick O’ Connell’s “Refined American Cuisine” . Instead of using fresh lump crabmeat like the book stated , I used canned, which already had salt in it. Because of this I had to use less…

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