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January 1, 2007

Weekend Cookbook Challenge 12: Moroccan Style Chick Pea Stew

Here it is 2007 and it's time to start eating healthy. Really. I mean it this time! So, it was very good fortune that the theme of this month's Weekend Cookbook Challenge is stew. And it's the perfect time of year around here for a warm and comforting stew. No snow, but our lows have …

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December 28, 2006

SHF#26: Sparkly Chocolate Star Cookies

This month's Sugar High Friday is hosted by Habeas Brulee and the theme is a great one -- sugar art. Of course, with it being the holidays and everything, I kind of took the lazy way out and made cookies decorated with sparkly sugar. These are very much like chocolate shortbread and are very good. …

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December 27, 2006

It Must be a Holiday, I Smell Roasted Game Hens

We have a Christmas tradition (when we're at home) of having Roasted Cornish Game Hens for Christmas dinner. And they are so-so-so good! Especially so after I got the book, "The Cook's Illustrated Complete Guide to Poultry (since re-named as the Complete Book of Chicken...). The book is the poultry and fowl bible, as far …

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December 20, 2006

Happy Holidays!

Je Mange la Ville is going on a break until the 26th or 27th of December. I hope everyone has a great few days. My first post next week will probably be of our Christmas dinner: Roasted Cornish Game Hens, Creamed Spinach and Roasted Root Vegetables. Mmm!

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December 19, 2006

Monte Christo Sandwiches: It's Like Eating French Toast for Lunch (or Dinner)!

When I was little, whenever we'd go out for lunch, I would get a Monte Christo sandwich. It was my absolute favorite. I think it was the, "I'm eating French Toast for lunch!!", thrill of it all. Granted, this was a simpler time, long before Freedom Toast. Recently, however, I was browsing thorugh the Food …

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