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TwitterIf you like Spanakopita (Greek spinach pie) you will love this chicken! Spinach pie filling stuffed inside a chicken breast, baked to perfection, oh my! This is one of my experiments gone better than…
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Spinach and Feta Stuffed Chicken Breasts
March 7th, 2010 
Food Lover 
Posted in Food Recipes, How to Cook, Italian Recipes 
Tags: chicken breast, feta, Spinach 
No Comments »Breaking News: Food Wishes Nominated for Saveur Magazine 1st Annual Best Food Blog Awards!
March 2nd, 2010 Food Lover Thank God for Twitter! I’m sure I would have found out eventually, but I saw a tweet this morning congratulating me on being nominated in the video category for the Saveur Magazine 1st Annual Best Blog Awards! I had no idea, and quickly went to make sure I wasn’t being punk’d…it was true!
I know you’ve [...]
Penne alla Vodka
March 2nd, 2010 Food Lover Who doesn’t love Vodka Sauce!! It is said that the vodka is used to release the acids and flavor in the sauce and enhance the sweetness of the cream. To lower the points I use half and half in place…
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How Bacon Can Make Any Dish Suck
March 2nd, 2010 Food Lover Bacon is delicious, rich, fatty; we all know this, says Chef Tim Love in the Daily Beast. But this thing where we put it in everything, that’s got to stop. The bacon flavor takes over, for starters: “With any ingredient, no matter how versatile, it is the chef’s job to temper it. Instead, because it’s [...]
Foods That Might Kill You, If Stupidity Doesn’t Kill You First
March 2nd, 2010 Food Lover Time magazine has published an exceedingly silly list of the “Top 10 Most Dangerous Foods.” Lazy beyond belief and essentially without any kind of organizing principle that might help give it shape or definition, the list includes stuff like rhubarb (pictured at right), because if you eat rhubarb leaves, they’re dangerous!; fugu, which kills a [...]
Jerk Your Meat to Win
March 2nd, 2010 Food Lover If you weren’t already aware of our burgeoning national jerky craze, the Minneapolis-based restaurant Hell’s Kitchen is ratcheting things up a notch by holding an event that it’s proclaiming the first annual Jerky Competition on April 5.
Via the press release: “Pros as well as amateurs can enter, with a Grand Prize of $300 cash plus [...]
Salzburger Modiano Regional Italian Playing Cards. Authentic Italian Deck.
February 18th, 2010 Food Lover This deck of cards is an authentic deck of Italian playing cards. Italian playing cards most commonly consist of 40 cards (4 suits from 1-7 and 3 face cards). The three face cards in each deck are the King, Cavallo (calvary man) and Fante (Infantry Man), except in the French region (see below) [...]
Posted in Italian Recipes Tags: Authentic, Cards, Deck., Italian, Modiano, Playing, Regional, Salzburger No Comments »Napoletane 97/31 Modiano Regional Italian Playing Cards. Authentic Italian Deck.
February 17th, 2010 Food Lover This deck of cards is an authentic deck of Italian playing cards. Italian playing cards most commonly consist of 40 cards (4 suits from 1-7 and 3 face cards). The three face cards in each deck are the King, Cavallo (calvary man) and Fante (Infantry Man), except in the French region (see below) [...]
Posted in Italian Recipes Tags: 97/31, Authentic, Cards, Deck., Italian, Modiano, Napoletane, Playing, Regional No Comments »Greek Lentil Soup
February 16th, 2010 Food Lover This is an incredibly simple dish and popular in the villages especially, in the cold winter months. It is not so much the lentil soup that is so enjoyable as the whole meal with the accompaniments – feta cheese covered in olive oil and sprinkled with oregano; olives and bread, ideally olive pitta bread – [...]
