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TwitterWhen most of you hear the word, “succotash,” you probably don’t think of a delicious vegetable side dish, you probably think of Warner Brother’s Sylvester the cat’s catchphrase, “Sufferin’ succotash!” But succotash really is a great, and very underrated recipe.
As I say in the video, this may be America’s oldest vegetable recipe, coming from the [...]
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Sufferin’ Succotash? More Like Succulent and Super-Interesting Succotash!
March 2nd, 2010 
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Posted in Fat Free Recipes, Food Recipes, Healthy Nutritional Recipes, How to Cook, Low in Fat 
Tags: Succotash 
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 [...]
All-American Shrimp Cocktail – Jumbo Shrimp is Not an Oxymoron
March 2nd, 2010 Food Lover Before I knew much about food or dining out, I knew that if they brought shrimp cocktails to the table as an appetizer, we were eating at a “fancy” restaurant. I’m sure I enjoyed the shrimp, but what I really loved was dipping the crackers in the spicy, horseradish-spiked cocktail sauce.
As I got older, I [...]
A Rainy Sunday Rerun – Sticky Ginger Garlic Chicken Wings
March 2nd, 2010 Food Lover It’s a cool, rainy day in San Francisco, and I still have a very full day of cooking and photography ahead, but I wanted to take a minute to post this picture, and rerun the video, for sticky ginger garlic chicken wings.
I had to make a batch yesterday to photograph for the cookbook, and I’d [...]
Posted in Fat Free Recipes, Food Recipes, How to Cook, Low in Fat Tags: Ginger Garlic Chicken Wings No Comments »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 [...]
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 – [...]
Greek Orange Spoon Sweet (Gliko Koutaliou Portokali)
February 16th, 2010 Food Lover It’s common practice in Greece if you visit someone during the day or early evening, to be offered a spoon sweet, or ‘gliko koutaliou’. This is a sweet made from fruit and kept in a jar, to be served on sweet dish (preferrable glass) whenever someone comes. All types of fruit are used, but this [...]
Greek Sea Bass (Lavraki)
February 16th, 2010 Food Lover This method of cooking sea bass (Lavraki) is popular on the island of Cephalonia, especially in Fiskardo, where large amounts of the fish can be found in the sea. What makes it different is that the stomach is filled with the garlic an herbs and it is baked wrapped in greaseproof paper. It’s quite easy [...]
