While living in the Republic of Georgia, I was introduced to a new way of seasoning meats and vegetables–with walnuts. Eggplant, fish, chicken, pork, and beef are all dressed with absolutely delicious walnut sauce, usually accented with cinnamon and cloves. It’s a completely different experience!! Well, so I had some chicken I needed to get […]
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Posted in Cooked on Apr 25th, 2010
I made it out to Berlin recently to visit friends. I thought that, without a doubt, I would walk away with some new wonderful currywurst addiction. Instead, I fell in love with Kartoffelsalat, or German potato salad, which I picked up as a side dish one damp and chilly afternoon at Curry 36, an apparently […]
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Posted in Cooked on Apr 14th, 2010
I love cheesy potatoes au gratin, and I am especially a big fan of Betty Crocker boxed potatoes au gratin, having grown up on them. But I figured there had to be a way to make potatoes au gratin out of real, fresh potatoes and a block of cheese. I poked around on the internet […]
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Posted in The Well Stocked Kitchen on Apr 8th, 2010
Potatoes and other root vegetables or tubers, such as sweet potato, yam, yuca, taro, ginger, onions, carrots, radishes, beetroots, shallots, tigernuts, and turnips. Celeriac is a less starchy alternative. This group of foods often serves the same purpose as grains and grain products. Almost everyone has heard of the role of the potato in saving […]
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