Food & Drink
Best basics for Memorial Day: Burgers, chicken, chops
It's time to get back to the basics. Fancy food magazines and TV shows regale us with exotic ingredients and recipes, forgetting that the average cook wants to do his or her best, serve up good food and make guests happy.
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Stir Crazy: Classic fricassee should not be forgotten
In a quick discussion the other day with a friend, we talked about food no one makes at home anymore, like ham salad. Some classics will always remain, though -- think chicken and dumplings, Then she asked me why chicken fricassee (FRICK-a-see) had fallen by the culinary wayside and I wasn't even...
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So much more to these S'Mores
S'Mores are outdoor desserts created over a campfire, right? Not this trio. Each recipe here uses the necessary ingredients: Chocolate, graham crackers and marshmallows. But, there are a few twists. The main idea here, though, is that you don't need a blazing fire to make any of them. In fact, two...
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I believe I can fry chicken
There is no magic to fried chicken. Most people don't cook it for the same reason they don't make their own burritos. They have grown up in a world with free-flowing fried chicken at every turn.
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Enter spicy contests at Horseradish Festival
I like spicy food, and while I didn't grow up eating horseradish, I am a fan now.
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Food briefs
Eckert's Country Store and Farms begins pick-your-own strawberries today at the Belleville farm at 951 S. Greenmount Road.
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Cook's Corner: Savory sauce distinguishes German stuffed cabbage
Q: I hope you can track down a favorite recipe I lost for meat-stuffed cabbage leaves called kohlruladen. I haven't had any luck finding it online.
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Wine of the Week: 2008 Tenuta di Trinoro Rosso Toscano 'Le Cupole'
Wine of the Week: 2008 Tenuta di Trinoro Rosso Toscano "Le Cupole"
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Recipe Finder: Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake
Steve Frazer from Reisterstown was looking for the recipe for the chocolate chip cake that used to be sold at Miller's Delicatessen in Northwest Baltimore in the 1970s. He remembers that it was a very dense cake and most likely made with sour cream with an abundance of tiny chocolate chips and a...
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Tidbits: From the pizzeria
There already were nine flavors of Totino's Pizza Rolls (perhaps, like Mr. Tidbit, you were surprised to notice that they aren't still Jeno's Pizza Rolls, but the name change happened in 1993, so we both need to get over it). Anyway, what might be simply three more flavors of Totino's Pizza Rolls...
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Blended wines can be more or less than the sum of their parts
Observe the care with which the American backyard grill jockey shifts and turns that New York strip over that 2,000-degree gas flame to give it the perfect crosshatch of grill marks, and you'll sense there's something primal going on.


