Tag: cooking
group name: herbankitchen
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October 25, 2006 09:42 AM EDT --
In a saute pan, melt about 3 T unsalted butter. When sizzling, toss in a heaping cup of sliced mushrooms. Saute until they have browned and smell nutty. Remove from heat. Add a cup or so of . . .
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October 01, 2006 08:50 AM EDT --
I had a quick check this morning through all my notes, my cookery books, texts, and websites that I refer to at the start of each month.
I check everything off before posting my list of foods and I can . . .
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October 02, 2007 11:40 AM EDT --
Herbs are great to cook with but often you find you have more than you need and aren't sure how to store them or even how long they will stay fresh. Here are a few tips to use.
What is the shelf . . .
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April 30, 2007 08:36 AM EDT --
The time was 1994. I was pinch hitting for a chef friend, cooking for monks in a small and beautiful monastery. To raise money, they had opened their doors to the public, renting rooms and . . .
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May 30, 2007 11:53 PM EDT --
i first had this salad a month ago, at my sister's baby shower. i could not eat enough of it - and was afraid i'd embarrass myself with my continual trips to the salad bowl for refills.
after . . .
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February 15, 2007 08:23 PM EST --
Last week my mother flew in from California for a week-long stay on the farm. Despite the fact that I was 45 minutes late picking her up at the airport, it had started to snow, and she . . .
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November 24, 2009 04:14 PM EST --
Heaven help me if I forget the creamed onions again! The last time I forgot them my kids gave me no end of grief, so I made sure they were at the top of the shopping list today.
When you shop, the . . .
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July 03, 2007 05:45 PM EDT --
A Season for Lavender
A few months ago, after reading a small article in this newspaper (*) about a lavender farm in Laupahoehoe I called the owners and expressed an interest in visiting and 'talking . . .
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November 25, 2007 07:40 PM EST --
Are you firing up the engines for Christmas presents? What to get for who, what to give?
Well, I just ran across a fabulous cookbook that is soooo good it's for Uncle, Grandson, son, daughter, . . .
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December 11, 2007 03:14 AM EST --
© Dorine Houston 2007, all rightsreserved
One Saturday evening every month is movie night at church; we have a DVD to enjoy together on a large screen preceded . . .
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March 30, 2007 09:24 PM EDT --
What is an herb?
Herbs are the fragrant leaves and stems (as in chives) of plants whose stems are not woody (with exceptions like rosemary).
Other flavorings are sometimes mistakenly thought of as herbs, . . .
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May 13, 2007 09:53 PM EDT --
I have known Barbara Fahs, owner of Hi'aka's Healing Heb Garden, for several years, both as a friend and as a colleague since we are both freelance writers for The Hawaii Island Journal. . . .
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June 22, 2007 11:44 AM EDT --
Roasted Garlic Oil
One of my favorite things to have around! Very easy to make!
Do the work once and reap the benefits MANY times is the only way to go in Eric’s kitchen! . . .
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February 06, 2009 04:56 PM EST --
What a great dinner on a chilly day! Slowly simmered chicken thighs in vermouth or white wine , fragrant with thyme, tarragon, and mushrooms, with a zing from a few tomatoes and shallots or onions. . . .
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December 06, 2007 02:33 AM EST --
Hearty Bean, Beef and AleSoup
Thefirst snow of the season is falling. Big, fat fluffy flakes more typicalof later in the season have been drifting prettily down for the past 18 . . .
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January 05, 2008 11:08 AM EST --
I love packaging, and when I received this there was a moment of swooning - the tidy wooden box framed with metal, the lettering, and of course, the salt that lay within.
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June 14, 2007 05:52 AM EDT --
(c) Dorine Houston 2007
Growing up has its drawbacks in the kind of suburban family with parents who think there is nothing wrong with the monster carbon footprint they leave when driving a conversion . . .
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July 04, 2007 11:05 PM EDT --
Fettuccine Dorine
(c) Dorine S. Houston, 2007
“What do you suggest?” I asked Josyane when she and her brother told me to get anything I wanted for dessert. Josyane and I had . . .
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January 05, 2008 02:11 AM EST --
(c) Dorine Houston 2008, all rights reserved
Malaga, Spain may have been the place, but the fragrance was pure Morocco, a seductive lure into the kitchen where steam puffed out from . . .
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February 08, 2007 10:57 PM EST --
I have two distinct memories regarding the making of homemade soup, neither of which takes place in a kitchen. Both are leftover from years ago, when I was a young college co-ed who did not make her . . .
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