Mr. Smith on December 31st, 2009

Ingredients:
1 leg of pork with bone of 7 kg
¼ cup brown sugar
4 tbsp of seasoning
3 tbsp mustard
2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
Squash Honey:
1 kg squash,peeled and cut into chunks
3 cups brown sugar
2 cups water
10 cloves
6 g jamaica
2 cinnamon sticks

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Mr. Smith on December 16th, 2009

Ingredients:
2 ½ kg of banana leaves
1 kg of corn flour
½ kg pork post
½ kg of green beans, cooked
4 cups mashed potatoes
2 cups chicken broth
1 cup vegetable oil
1 cup lard
1 cup rice, cooked to taste with achiote
6 chicken broth envelopes
4 garl…

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Jean Johnson on July 19th, 2009

Food, of course, is not just about consumption. Its story also encompasses production, a subject I’ve been investigating this summer with students at Washington State University enrolled in my US Food History course.
So, how sunny are those eggs on the breakfast table? Or in the really cheap breakfast you found at your neighborhood restaurant? Yes [...]

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youlin on May 29th, 2009

This morning when I was hanging around a local wet market, initially, I was looking for some roasted pork at the butcher to prepare a quick stir-fried vegetables. But, it was too late when the time I reached, the beautiful roasted pork was finished.
So, I decided to make it myself. Remember my first attempt to [...]

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Núria on May 25th, 2009

Now you have it, now you don’t! This is one of my daughter’s favourite meals ever!!! Try it with…

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I love it when, like in this dish, one recipe can be shown in different ways: A classic view, a…

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Núria on March 12th, 2009

I just discovered The Sopranos… and I keep on wondering how can a man like Tony Soprano turn me…

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Spiceplace on April 14th, 2007

We like to have breakfast sausage every once in a while. Yet often the brands at the grocer are laden with fat. We do know of
one brand
that is fairly lean, but most store bought sausage is very fatty. It seems the manufacturers often can resist the tendency to want to use up the fat [...]

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