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Recipe for oven fries: Healthy baked potato fries
March 8, 2010
How to make french fries in the oven: Healthy, homemade, baked potato fries are crispy and good.
How to brine turkey, carve turkey: Thanksgiving recipes from Alton Brown
November 10, 2009
See how to carve a turkey with a electric knife, how to brine a turkey, and other Thanksgiving videos from Alton Brown of Good Eats.
Southern cooking: Frogmore Stew recipe (Low Country shrimp boil)
May 26, 2009
Low Country recipe for shrimp boil with sausage, potato, and corn from Frogmore, South Carolina (near Beaufort).
Chicken kebabs on the grill: A quick, low-meat dinner
May 5, 2009
When you want to cook in the open air, but you don’t want to pork out.
Red Gold tomatoes and the mysterious emailer
March 2, 2009
A guy offered to send me soem Red Gold tomatoes to blog about. Well, I do like Red Gold tomatoes.
'Engine 2 Diet' fad from Texas, 'Tecktonik' dance craze from France
February 24, 2009
Scouring the globe to bring you the new and the cutting edge, I have found a dance and a diet.
The Food Allergy Mama
February 13, 2009
Suburban Chicago mom and new cookbook author Kelly Rudnicki blogs about food allergies and kids.
Pressure cookers, recipe books for Indian food, beans, stew
January 5, 2009
Oh, yes — there is delicious Indian food in Racine. It’s at our house, thanks to our Kuhn Rikon Duromatic pressure cooker.
'Good Eats' on YouTube
December 9, 2008
The Good Eats Fan Page now includes YouTube links to several recent seasons of ‘Good Eats’ episode.
Recipe: Potatoes Roasted with Mustard and Rosemary
August 10, 2008
A simple, rustic roasted potato recipe that Amy threw together a year or two ago.
'Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie'
May 6, 2008
If you like food, Gourmet’s ‘Diary of a Foodie’ is an outstanding show — and you can download it to iTunes.
Pierogi recipes: Cheese filling, cabbage filling, mashed potato filling
December 15, 2007
Pierogi recipes — for pierogi dough and several different fillings — as handed down by my mother.
Im Cooked: Christopher Walken's peculiar Chicken with Pears
November 1, 2007
Im Cooked is a new site featuring cooking videos, including this one from the beloved actor.
French recipes, bistro cuisine fill Thomas Keller cookbook 'Bouchon'
April 26, 2007
What is a bistro? Thomas Keller’s cookbook bundles French recipes, cooking techniques, and bistro style details.
St. Patrick's Day with Irish breakfast, Racine parade, and Irish stew recipe
March 19, 2007
Since it fell on a Saturday this year, we could celebrate all day — from an Irish breakfast to the Racine parade to a homemade Irish stew.
New Orleans cooking: Alton Brown gumbo recipe
February 19, 2007
Gumbo, that icon of the cuisine of New Orleans, begins with a roux. Alton Brown shares the secret.
Happy New Year with Emeril's Hoppin' John recipe
January 1, 2007
This dish of black-eyed peas and pork meat is considered good luck on New Year’s Day in the southern U.S.
Excellent Tuscan chicken and beans recipe
November 12, 2006
A simple, inexpensive, and delicious dinner to go with our Italian movie.
Recipe: Hungarian Goulash
August 25, 2006
We include garlic, which may not be authentic, but it’s definitely delicious.
'Cooking Light': It's what's for dinner
July 20, 2006
The magazine — and the MyRecipes.com website — are great sources for interesting-but-easy, healthy weeknight dinners.
Oatmeal recipe: Steel-cut oats ala Alton Brown
May 17, 2006
‘Good Eats’ is a TV show that can improve your life. Steel-cut oatmeal is a food that may lengthen it.
Recipe: Hummus bi Tahina
April 20, 2006
It’s very easy to make batches of this delicious Middle Eastern dip at home.
