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My neighbor’s plum tree just gave me a gift. For dried plums firm-fleshed fruits with a stone that dislodges easily work the best. They are sometimes called prunes, even though to me “prune” implies a plum that has been dried. Find the “seam” [...]

As I mentioned earlier, Food Buzz had a contest where 24 blogs were featured in 24 hours.  The winners were truly magnificent foodiferous events, most thrown by professional foodies with degrees in foodology,   all kinds of connections in the supplier circle, not to mention matching china, mood decor and placemats, all documented by really [...]

Recently my day was brightened by a totally unexpected gift from the great folks at Food Buzz.  FB had already surprised me with a batch of cool “Moo-cards” to promote this blog, and now I get this really awesome chef’s apron (modelled by my lovely green-haired daughter)  and long handled green spatula, totally out [...]

If you have hard core carnivores among you, divide the fajitas up and put the mushrooms in one half and the chicken on the other half then everybody’s happy. Or if it’s just one hard core carnivore, throw a little canned chicken in theirs, microwave the plate for 30 seconds and they’ll never know [...]

Sun dried tomatoes preserve that summery Septembery flavor of vine ripened tomatoes for those dreary winter days. Make ‘em now, use ‘em later.
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Foodbuzz had this contest called 24 in 24. You were to plan a big themed thing for 20 Sept, and they would pick 24 people and pay them to do their event and also feature them. Well of course I don’t know the right people or have enough resources to win anything like [...]

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The original recipe of this (from our local newspaper) said you should add the cumin and chiles after cooking the split peas, but I think serranos taste better when they are cooked, more good chile flavor and less throat choking picante. I also was trained to always saute cumin or any of the [...]

This slideshow came from Chris Jordan’s “Running the Numbers” art exhibit. I hope Chris doesn’t mind me spreading a little snippet of his message, and do visit his site — it’s awesome and more than a little frightening. In this excerpt, First you see a nondescript tweedy pattern. Then [...]

I normally write Restaurant reviews on Food Buzz and then link to them to a teaser here. But this time I will do it the other way, because Food Buzz blew up when I tried to put a Mexican address in their database. Anyway, Food Buzz seems to subscribe to my blog [...]