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Sauteing

Vanilla Mashed Sweet Potatoes

December 7, 2009 by Charles 5 Comments

If you know me, you know I love sweet potatoes.  So, when it came time to create a Thanksgiving menu, the question wasn’t whether I was going to serve sweet potatoes, the question was simply what recipe to choose.

I wanted something fairly simple to make, but that would nonetheless impress.  I also wanted it to be something unique and fun.  This recipe met …

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Filed Under: Sides Tagged With: Roasting, Sauteing, Sweet Potato, Thanksgiving, Vanilla

Sauteed Broccolini

March 23, 2009 by Charles Leave a Comment

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Like the Camry, the Walkman, and the Wii, broccolini is one more Japanese product making its way into the American household.  And like its predecessors, the vegetable is one part engineering and one part marketing.

Broccolini was developed in 1993, when the Sakata Seed Corporation crossed broccoli with gai lan, or Chinese broccoli.  Sakata originally marketed the green as “aspiration,” perhaps a not so subtle allusion to its hopes for the product.  The name may have also been designed to suggest a connection to asparagus.  Indeed, Sakata also tried calling it asprobroc and asprospeer – never mind its misleading nature.  Crossing broccoli with asparagus, one article noted, would be like breeding a chipmunk with a tree: it can’t be done.

Ultimately, the more accurate broccolini prevailed, though brocoletti was in the running for some time.

Broccolini is basically …

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Filed Under: Sides Tagged With: Ina Garten, Quick and Easy, Sauteing, Vegetables

Spaghetti and Meatballs

March 3, 2009 by Charles 1 Comment

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In August 2002 (back in the early days of blogging), Julie Powell began an interesting project on her blog.  Frustrated with her job, her marriage, and her living arrangements in one of the “outer boroughs,” she vowed to master the art of french cooking.  That is, Powell decided to make every one of the 536 recipes contained in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking in a year’s time.  The project’s simplicity, balanced with its sheer scope, soon captured the interests of her fellow bloggers and several media outlets (and eventually earned her a book and movie deal).

On a much smaller scale, the Barefoot Bloggers make it their goal to blog roughly twenty-four of Ina Garten’s recipes every year – or two every month, which…

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Filed Under: Entrees Tagged With: Bread Crumbs, Comfort Food, Favorites, Frying, Ina Garten, Italian, Pasta, Red Meat, Sauteing

Thomas Jefferson’s Chicken Fricassee

March 1, 2009 by Charles 3 Comments

Chicken Fricassee

At a dinner honoring forty-nine Nobel laureates, President Kennedy looked around and pronounced that this was the “most extraordinary collection of talent and of human knowledge that has ever been gathered together at the White House with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”

That Thomas Jefferson was brilliant is undeniable.  He was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence. He founded the University of Virginia. He was a renowned horticulturalist, botanist, and architect. He was an accomplished inventor, designing the Lazy Susan, a folding chair, and a pedometer, though he refused to pursue a patent on any of them.

That Thomas Jefferson dined alone is more suspect. …

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Filed Under: Entrees Tagged With: Chicken, Presidential Recipes, Sauteing

Seven-Layer Spinach Lasagna

February 9, 2009 by Charles 4 Comments

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Choosing a recipe is a lot like playing the Kevin Bacon game.

The Kevin Bacon game, or Six-Degrees of Kevin Bacon, centers around the small-world principle, or the idea that any two people are linked by a finite number of connections.  With Kevin Bacon, the goal is to link him to any other actor using no more than six intermediary actors.  For instance, Elvis and Kevin Bacon are separated by only one intermediary – Edward Asner, who appeared with Elvis in Change of Habit, and with Bacon in JFK. At last count, over one million actors can be linked to Bacon in fewer than six steps.

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The principle can be applied to any number of disciplines or phenomena –  from linking baseball players in various decades, to demonstrating the thought process in choosing a recipe….

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Filed Under: Entrees Tagged With: Baking, Cheese, Italian, Pasta, Sauteing, Spinach, Vegetables, Vegetarian

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