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BBQ Burgers in the Slow Cooker

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BBQ Burgers in the Slow Cooker

It seems like burgers are in vogue. Teheheheh. Summer BBQ and usually there are a few burgers on the grill. Beef, turkey, bison, lamb, salad, crab, salmon, portobellos, even meatloaf mix. There are even an astounding library of cookbooks just on burgers now. A burger for every day of the year. There was this recipe […]

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Oven-Fried Chicken for Chicken and Waffles

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oven fried chicken and waffles

Mildred Pierce move over. Here is the alternative to all that messy stove top frying with a fraction of the fat. Baking and deep frying are both dry heat cooking methods, so they are interchangeable. This is the rule: when cooking chicken breasts with dry heat, use high heat and cook for a short period […]

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What Rice Cooker Do I Want to Buy

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What Rice Cooker Do I Want to Buy

The electric rice cooker is one of the hottest home kitchen appliances on the market today.  American cooks, accustomed to stove-top cooking, have up to now been slow to take to this method of cooking rice to their hearts, but many cooks around the world find the rice cooker an essential commonplace appliance for everyday meal preparation. […]

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Bread Machine Dakota Bread

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Bread Machine Dakota Bread

Café Latte in St. Paul, Minnesota, makes their Dakota Bread everyday from fresh milled flour.  It was named for the baker’s home state of South Dakota. Cafe Latte is sort of famous in a comfort food sort of way. It has been a fixture on St. Paul’s Grand Avenue since 1984. The gourmet cafeteria serves […]

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The Baker: Russian Challah (Jewish Egg Bread)

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This is my friend Ilana Sharum’s grandmother’s recipe from Russia, which she had transcribed over the phone to me from her recipe written in cursive Hebrew. It is one of my most treasured recipes and I make it for just about every special occasion. There is a saying that when you make this traditional bread […]

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The Microwave: King Crab Legs with Not Your Mother’s Cocktail Sauce

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microwave king crab legs

Crabs are the second most popular seafood after shrimp. With the fishing limits put on Dungeness crabs, there is now a glut of King crab legs available to fill the gap. What exactly is a King crab? The delicious giant crustacean has ten legs, the front two being pincers, and can easily weigh over 10 […]

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Slow Cooker Cassoulet

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Slow Cooker Cassoulet

Cassoulet is a dish that typlifies French home and bistro cooking and has somewhat of a legendary status among gourmands.  As for most French cooking, it is a regional dish originally from the South West that has become popular all over the country and is standard bistro fare, or even bought canned. It is comfort […]

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Julia Child’s Mustard Marinade for Lamb

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roasted-leg-of-lamb

One of the best marinades for lamb ever concocted. You won’t need another one–ever. From Julia Child’s most wonderful tome, The Way to Cook, which is the go-to gift for any cookbook lover you need a gift for. Julia considered this her best book. My Aunt Joan in North Carolina has won 3 cooking contests with this […]

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Beth Hensperger

Beth Hensperger’s career as a prolific food writer and educator began when she was named guest cooking instructor for the March 1985 issue of Bon Appétit. She has gone on to author more than twenty cookbooks, including the best-selling Not Your Mother’s® series. Her other cookbooks from The Harvard Common Press are The Bread Lover’s Bread Machine Cookbook and The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook. She is also the author of The Bread Bible, winner of a James Beard Book Award, and has been nominated twice for an IACP Cookbook Award.

Hensperger writes a food column, “Baking with the Seasons,” for the San Jose Mercury News, and she is a contributor to dozens of national and online cooking and lifestyle magazines. An East Coast transplant who now considers herself a true Californian, Hensperger lives in the San Francisco Bay area.

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