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HOBBY CHEF COOKS SIGNATURE DISH

November 7, 2022 by

Hobby chef says: start out with the right ingredients. My signature dish, a take off on a childhood favorite at birthdays, includes the healthy and the questionable healthy. The question comes up a few times a year on house birthdays, so the ingredients are not deadly. Cooking birthday dinner for others in hobby chef style:

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LEBANON COOKBOOK IN MY KITCHEN

October 28, 2019 by

The Co-Cooking Cookbook  Growing up in my house, ethnic food meant warming up a can of Spaghetti-Os. More daring was a small town Chinese restaurant that sold more hamburgers than spicy chicken and rice. Then we all grew up and found another way: Books about cooking called a cookbook. Take it another level and invite friends to […]

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BRAGGING ABOUT COOKING SKILLS? NEVER, BUT IT STARTS WITH A DRUMBEAT

September 4, 2019 by

Bragging about cooking skills is worse than listening to someone else bragging when you know you’re better. The only thing worth bragging about is keeping people out of the emergency room after eating something you cooked. I don’t brag about my cooking skills for a reason, and it’s not because I’m serving raw or burned […]

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CHOOSING CHOICE: THE RIGHT CHOICE FOR YOU

May 28, 2019 by

Choosing choice is as American as America gets. From remembering to mind your own business, to ‘Don’t Tread On Me,’ we are a nation of individuals. And because we come from all points of the compass, not everyone agrees with everyone else. One thing we practice, and need more, is agreeing about the freedom of […]

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Climate Change In My Kitchen Is Real

July 29, 2018 by

  The first step to take when the air conditioning fails on the hottest week of the year, with an even hotter week on the near horizon?   Stop making things hotter. No cooking. Eighty five degrees in the kitchen with nothing on is hot enough.   Thinking of baking a polenta pizza? Maybe flattening […]

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BRAIN FOOD STARTS WITH GOOD HANDS

January 25, 2018 by

  Ask around about cooking.   If you do cook, ask a new friend about it. “Do you cook, too?”   The answer will tell you more about the new friend than most any question.   It’s a simple question, but the answers come in complicated flavors instead of “yes” or “no.”

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RUSTIC FRUIT RECIPE ON THE WESTERN CHEF TABLE

January 22, 2018 by

  A recipe is nothing more than food history, and nothing says history better than ‘rustic.’   Like the discovery of fire, the first food recipe had to be pretty rustic.   The top cave chef probably didn’t have as much to work with.   No one appreciates recipes more than a history major with […]

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BOOMERPDX COOKS SHEPHERDS PIE

October 29, 2015 by

The Best Flock Food? Shepherds Pie Of Course. It’s PFM And BoomerPdx Cooks It. People who like to cook act as if it’s no big deal, but it is. Who likes to cook? Anyone tired of microwave entrees, boiled sausages, and hamburgers that come out of drive-up windows. If you have a group to cook […]

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BOOMERPDX COOKING TIPS

June 4, 2015 by

From Foodie To Finish, Cooking Tips for Boomers. Everyone’s done this: You sit down to eat and the plate looks so beautiful you take a picture and post it. You want to share the perfection if not the calories. None of pictures look the same, but they all look delicious. That’s only part of the […]

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GET STARTED, KEEP IT GOING

March 30, 2015 by

Two of the hardest  words to learn in the English language: Get Started. Most get started after they’re told what to do. “Stand up. Put one foot in front of the other. Repeat. Get started now.” It’s that easy and that hard to get started. With the reported obesity epidemic sweeping the nation’s youth why […]

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