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My Favorite Recipes

Pioneer Woman’s Buttermilk Fried Chicken

October 29, 2009
Pioneer Woman's Buttermilk Fried Chicken

I know there are certain foods that I really shouldn’t mess with, one of them being fried chicken. And after all these years of cooking, last week was the very first time that I made real buttermilk fried chicken without tinkering, gourmetizing or ethnic-tizin’ with funky ingredients like panko, garam masala, five spice or corn [...]

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Matsutake Mushroom Dobin Mushi Recipe

October 12, 2009
matsutake mushroom, japanese recipe, dobin mushi recipe

One of my favorite cooking shows of all time is the original Iron Chef. No, not the modern version that plays over and over on Food Network right now, but the one taped in Japan with the silly English dubbing that always cracks me up. The episode that I drooled most over was “Battle Matsutake.” [...]

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Bacon Blue Cheese Butter on Grilled Steak, Baked Potatoes, Vegs…

October 10, 2009
bacon blue cheese butter

The world has gone bacon crazy, and unfortunately it has nothing to do with the food item actually made from pork belly. I’m talking about products sold in tubes, squeeze bottles, jars, cans and tablets, all flashing the word “Bacon!” as it’s only selling point and not an ounce of real pork in its ingredients. [...]

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How to make miso soup from Good Bite

October 5, 2009
miso soup recipe

Here’s my latest video from Good Bite – a roundtable with friends Matt Armendariz and Julie Van Rosendaal and we talk about S-S-S-SOUP!
I’m a lazy souper.
Well, let me rephrase that. I’m a forgetful and highly distractable gal and anything that sits on the stovetop for more than 30 minutes tends to be forgotten about, and [...]

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Chinese Boiled Pork Dumplings

October 3, 2009
chinese dumplings: boiled pork cabbage dumplings

My mom is a Chinese dumpling wrapping queen. She can mix up a batch of filling ingredients and fold them into perfect, little half-moon dumplings faster than the time it takes me to set the table. Mom will usually sit at the breakfast table facing the television and while watching her favorite Chinese soap opera, [...]

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