Tag: kd weeks
member name: Kevin Weeks
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September 16, 2008 06:08 PM EDT --
There was a time, a long period of time, when I admired John McCain. I didn't agree with him most of the time, but I thought his bus was well-named, I thought he had principles and stood by them, . . .
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February 03, 2007 08:28 PM EST --
I'd never been in a sex shop before. It was… interesting. The fur-covered handcuffs were interesting. The leather collars were interesting. The costumes were interesting, And the, well… . . .
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February 13, 2008 03:47 PM EST --
T here are a few recipes I make once a year and only once a year, every year. They all meet my definition of "seriously good" and yet, are so loaded with things like saturated fats that I limit . . .
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February 16, 2008 07:42 PM EST --
A s a Southern cook, I have an obligation to attempt to keep track of cookbooks purportedly offering Southern food. This means that The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook by Matt and Ted Lee was on my list . . .
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March 12, 2008 03:07 PM EDT --
A few years ago I purchased American Classics by the editors of Cook's Illustrated magazine. The book is a good modern reference to such traditional favorites as Chicken Pot Pie, Parker . . .
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March 26, 2008 11:42 AM EDT --
O nce upon a time I was the lead singer in an Indonesian rock band in Cairo, Egypt. Bear with me, it's a bit complicated.
At the time my parents were teaching at the American University in Cairo . . .
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April 11, 2008 05:31 PM EDT --
I pictured a mound of overlapping circles of golden-brown potatoes strewn with sprigs of green. Instead, I ended up with a single circle of potatoes surrounding a bird's nest of potato strips. Such . . .
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May 09, 2008 02:20 PM EDT --
T here are foods that make you wonder how they came to be eaten. For instance, raw olives are phenomenally bitter. They have to be cured in salt for several weeks before they're edible. Who figured . . .
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June 12, 2008 12:40 PM EDT --
S upposedly Beef Stroganoff was created by a chef in Saint Petersburg for a culinary competition held in the 1890s. Although the dish was almost certainly named for Count Paul Stroganoff, a Russian noble . . .
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September 17, 2008 07:12 PM EDT --
As much as we all like blaming the current administration when economic times are bad or lauding the current administration when they're good. Most of us know that the American economy is a multiple-trillion-dollar . . .
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October 03, 2008 06:53 PM EDT --
Palin was so folksy all I could think of was a corncob in an outhouse.
Which means, she was about as genuine as the Dukes of Hazard.
And if she'd winked at me one more time I would have crawled . . .
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May 06, 2009 08:18 PM EDT --
On a spring evening I passed away quietly while napping on the couch.
Or perhaps it was a winters night in a burst of glowing agony,
Snatched from my sleep in a twisting paroxysm of pain.
Maybe it . . .
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October 13, 2009 12:01 PM EDT --
I read recently that the most popular sandwich in the US (discounting hamburgers, I assume) is ham. Although I presume most people eat of some sort of processed ham on some sort of commercial . . .
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February 07, 2008 05:03 PM EST --
Can you tell your life story in six words? Here's mine:
Get a life! Yeah? What kind?
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March 01, 2008 01:15 PM EST --
S ardines and crackers, some cheese, and a shared bottle of beer - LaBatt's Blue, as I recall. I've had fancier and more interesting picnics, but in this case I was smitten with my traveling companion. . . .
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April 21, 2008 03:58 PM EDT --
B est I can figure is that I have a food face. I was in the market the other day, looking for a good bunch of asparagus when the woman next to me asked, "How do you cook asparagus?" She went . . .
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October 12, 2009 10:33 AM EDT --
S ix years ago today I posted my first piece on Seriously Good , a recipe for Sangria . It consisted of a short paragraph and a recipe. At the time I didn't even know food blogs existed. Most of . . .
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January 23, 2007 10:50 AM EST --
There was a time when I always had stale bread in my freezer. I’d buy a loaf for some purpose or other, eat part of it, then when the remainder started going stale I’d cut it up into . . .
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January 30, 2007 03:04 PM EST --
Paisano -- A countryman; a compatriot. Spanish from the French paysan, peasant. By implication, a working person.
Jeez! "Food for Working" sounds like a white-collar pretension of blue-collar . . .
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February 01, 2007 09:55 AM EST --
It's the fennel seed that makes it. Italian sausage, that is. Fennel provides the single most distinctive flavor in Italian sausage and it's often described as anise-like. Perhaps so, but I don't . . .
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