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May 25, 2006

SHF19: Honey-Ginger Pineapple Crepes

Once Upon a Feast came up with a great theme for his month's Sugar High Friday -- Ginger. Ginger is a very fun ingredient, as it can be in spicy, savory dishes or sweet (and a little bit spicy) dishes. It's versatile! Of course, this is Sugar High Friday, so I went with the sweet …

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May 24, 2006

Spinach Pasta Salad for the Hot & Hungry Masses

If it were sunny and warm again, I would be wanting a light, cool, pasta salad for dinner. That is, if it wasn't 60 degrees, cold, grey and rainy. But that's okay -- I actually prefer cooler weather. I also don't mind a pasta salad for dinner when it's not Summery out. Besides, a pasta …

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May 23, 2006

A Turkey Burger to be Reckoned With…

Pickled onions. Tillamook Cheddar. Toasted onion bun. Crispy, golden oven fries. Now, this was a meal. I sometimes like to add different combinations of ingredients and make interesting turkey burgers. These puppies had sautÃ©ed onions, spinach and smoked paprika. They were excellent. Yukon gold potato wedges were roasted with some extra-virgin olive oil, kosher salt …

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May 22, 2006

The Big Chicken Chili

Last week, I caught The Big Chili episode of Good Eats and I remembered again why I love Alton Brown so much. I laughed so hard in so many spots in this episode -- and the chili looked pretty good too. It's the best kind of Good Eats episode as well, with characters, costumes, accents …

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May 21, 2006

IMBB26 & WBW21: Asparagus Goat Cheese Tart with Argyle Chardonnay

Well, I kind of dropped the ball on this one. See, this month Wine Blogging Wednesday paired up with Is My Blog Burning to create "Fabulous Favorites Festival" -- awesome. Except, I was looking for an announcement for IMBB26 and when I didn't see one, I just assumed it was coming up later in the …

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