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Smoked Chops
When I was younger our summers always meant smoked pork chops. I didn’t appreciate it much at the time, but my father had access to bulk buy cases of delicious, thick chops direct from the local processing facility. He did this once per year, ensuring that in our chest freezer lived a cardboard box containing
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Fail Up Friday: Forked Cream
If you’ve been reading along for the last few days, I posted a comic earlier this week that tried to find a bit of humour in some recent… um… less-than-perfect cooking efforts. Thinking about funny ideas for future comic strips means I’ve also been thinking of all the fails I’ve had over the years. Not
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Our Well-Loved Cookbooks: Cooking with Friends
Bear with me. Just as I may be accused of jumping on the pop culture bandwagon (following my twitter and news feeds being filled yesterday with the sensationalized announcements that some middle-aged actors from a television show that ended fifteen years ago are having a reunion episode) apparently authors of cookbooks do the same. Back
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Our Well-Loved Cookbooks: Five Roses
There was a point in time about fifteen years ago when I would have told you that the best way to make pancakes was to follow the directions on the box. And see, everyone who dabbles in more advanced cooking techniques than as-per-manufacturers-instructions likely has a story of that one recipe that upon discovering it