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Via: The Village Voice Blogs
Image by : All Unusual in Our Lives
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This is what Bella said 🙂
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Bella say’s : Life is Good !
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Grits and lot’s of butter.
NOT a slimming day.
But a GOOD day 🙂
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Bon Appetit ! Life is Good !
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Last night’s midnight snack.
I guess that was one pound straight to the rib’s 😦
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Boil pasta shell’s until al dente, drain, reserve some of the cooking water.
Sautee steak cubes in very hot oil until still rare in center. Remove from pot, reserve.
Sautee vegetables in olive oil very briefly. Remove from pot, reserve.
Deglaze pot with red wine and let it slightly reduce.
Add pasta, beef, veggies, all the accumulated juices from the beef and veggies, a good amount of soft (not melted) butter, plenty of grated parmesan cheese and some of the cooking water from the pasta. Mix all until the sauce coats the pasta lightly.
If consistency seems too thin, add more cheese. If consistency seems too thick, add more pasta water.
To serve, sprinkle with crumbled gorgonzola and scallions.
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Bon Appetit ! Life is Good !
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Here is a great
Encyclopedia on food related word’s / phrases
I’d like to share with you all.
Enjoy ! Life is Good !
(Source Eatcyclopedia: eatocracy.cnn.com)
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Picture Source : CheggBlog
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Originally posted by:
The Huffington Post
By The Healthy Living Editors
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Each month at HuffPost Healthy Living, we compile lists of the most in-season, fresh superfoods — this June, for instance, we celebrated figs, zucchini and apricots, among others. But these monthly articles got us thinking — what are some of the healthiest foods generally, despite the season?
And so we turned to some of our favorite medical and nutritional experts to come up with this list of 50 of the healthiest foods, presented alphabetically. Pad your grocery list with these and you’ll be on your way to a healthier, more vibrant diet. Of course, even as we editors finished the list, we started thinking of more (“How could carrots not be on the list?” “What about black pepper?”). So we plan to follow up with a second list of healthy foods. Let us know in the comments which of your favorites we skipped and they could appear soon.
Read more and see a slideshow of all 50 food’s HERE
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I usually don’t like to re-post other folk’s stuff, but this one deserves to be shared 🙂
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From : eatocracy, CNN
Barbecue Digest: Cook the opossum, spare the bear
Editor’s note: All summer long, the Southern Foodways Alliance will be delving deep in the history, tradition, heroes and plain old deliciousness of barbecue across the United States. Dig in.
Today’s barbecue joints tend to serve just one or two kinds of meats, with pork predominate in the Carolinas and Georgia and beef the star out in Texas and Kansas City. Not so in the old days.
Back when barbecues were large-scale community affairs, the meat served was whatever people had on hand and could donate to the cause. Lists like the following, from a description of an 1868 barbecue in Spartanburg, South Carolina, were par for the course: “beef, mutton, pork, and fowls were provided in superabundance.”
At the largest events, the menus could be eye-popping. Perhaps the most extensive is the selection served at the 1923 inauguration of Oklahoma governor Jack Walton. The event was held in January, and just before Christmas, Walton sent out a call to Oklahoma farmers to donate animals for the event.
And donate they did. The final tally, as printed in the Dallas Morning News, included thousands of cows, hogs, sheep, and chickens plus 103 turkeys, 1,363 rabbits, 26 squirrels, 134 opossums, 113 geese, 34 ducks, 15 deer, 2 buffalo, and 2 reindeer that had been “shipped in from the North.”
A man from Sayre, Oklahoma, captured a live bear and offered him to the cause, too. But the bear won the sympathy of Oklahoma school children, who pooled their pocket change, bought him for $119.66, and donated him to the Wheeler Park Zoo. The bear was a crowd favorite for more than a decade.
The rest of the animals weren’t so lucky.
Today’s installment comes courtesy of Robert Moss, a food writer and restaurant critic for the Charleston City Paper and author of “Barbecue: the History of an American Institution”. Follow him on Twitter at @mossr.
Delve into more barbecue goodness from the Southern Foodways Alliance blog
Previously – In praise of pork rinds and Give squirrel a whirl and Burgoo with a smidge of squirrel
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A simple salad, two way’s :
1) Food fotografie.
2) As I serve it to myself in front of the tv 🙂
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Rey bread, avocado, tomato, pepper jack cheese, onion.
Dressing ingredient’s :
Olive oil, basil, garlic, lemon juice, balsamic vinegar, kosher salt, cayenne pepper.
Related articles :
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Let’s celebrate the day with a classic ” Coq Au Vin “.
But first :
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” Bastille Day is the name given in English-speaking countries to the French National Day, which is celebrated on the 14th of July each year. In France, it is formally called La Fête Nationale (The National Celebration) and commonly Le quatorze juillet (the fourteenth of July). It commemorates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789; the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille fortress-prison was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern nation, and of the reconciliation of all the French inside the constitutional monarchy which preceded the First Republic, during the French Revolution. Festivities and official ceremonies are held all over France. The oldest and largest regular military parade in Europe is held on the morning of 14 July, on the Champs-Élysées avenue in Paris in front of the President of the Republic, French officials and foreign guests.”
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To help you celebrate at home (or just to have a great meal because it is saturday
or whatever day 🙂 ,
here is one of my old standby’s for a hearty meal. And just because there is a lot
of wine in the marinade and sauce does not mean you should not make the meal
even better with another bottle of grat red wine.
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Photo Credit: Hans D. Susser
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Marinade :
Chicken 1200 gr , 8 cut, Bone in
Bay Leaves 5 ea
Thyme Sprig 2 ea
Rosemary Sprig 1 ea
Cloves 5 ea
Mirepoix 1 lb
Garlic chopped 5 Gloves
Burgundy Red 1 ½ qt
Preperation:
Olive Oil 2 oz
Tomato Paste 2 oz
Sweet Paprika Powder 1 oz
AP Flour 3 oz
Salt & Black Pepper to Taste
For the Garnish :
Butter 1 oz
Bacon 3 oz
Button Mushrooms 5 oz
Silver Onions, parboiled 3 oz
Parsley, chopped 1 oz
Salt & Black Pepper to Taste
Heart shaped toasted bread wedges
Method :
In a stainless steel container combine the chicken and the marinade
ingredients for 24 hours.
Remove the chicken, pat dry and season liberally with salt and freshly
ground black pepper.
In a heavy cast iron pan, sauté the chicken in the olive oil until mahagony brown.
Remove the chicken, add flour and sauté until dark brown roux forms.
Return the chicken together with the stock, mirepoix , cloves, bay leaves, herbs and cover.
Place in a 300* oven until chicken is tender, approx. 30-40 minutes.
Remove chicken and strain the sauce in a saucepan. If necessary,
simmer and reduce the sauce until it reaches the desired consistency.
Garnish:
Render the bacon until crispy. Remove the bacon , add the butter, mushroom and onion and sauté for one minute. Add parsley, salt and pepper to taste.
To serve :
Place the chicken on a platter, cover with sauce , garnish with mushroom and onion and top with toast’s.
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