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WORKING KITCHEN HARD AT WORK

September 13, 2023 by

A Working Kitchen comes in two versions in my experience: One: A place to make food. Two: A place to show off cooking gear. Who’s hungry?

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HOME COOKING CONVERSATION: PORK BUTT

September 4, 2023 by

Home cooking usually means there’s a cook involved. You know, a chef. With no cook or chef around you do what everyone else does: Get into that kitchen and rattle those pots and pans.

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LONG HAUL, OR LONG IN THE TOOTH

August 16, 2023 by

The ‘long haul’ is a lifespan, no matter how long or short. Baby boomers know all about it, yet some are still reluctant to embrace the details. How does that work out over the long haul? Let the embracing begin.

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PREMIUM CHICKEN WITH CHICKEN BONES

July 9, 2023 by

Premium chicken answers one question: What came first, canned chicken or bagged chicken. The question not asked: Who eats canned or bagged chicken? If that’s you, please continue; if that’s not you, please continue.

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TACTICAL AGING: WHAT TO LEAVE OUT

June 28, 2023 by

Tactical aging comes with a certain age. Some call it the ‘whispering’ age. Others stick with ‘a certain age.’ Both mean the same thing:

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FOOD EVOLUTION ON TELEVISION

February 28, 2023 by

You can track food evolution from your TV watching schedule. Some shows have their people shoveling in grub. The Last Kingdom was a shovel-fest with royalty sitting down to a bowl of gruel fit for a king. Follow that with an episode of CHOPPED to complete the circle.

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GET UNSTUCK IN LIFE SOONER THAN LATER

November 30, 2022 by

If you pay attention to your feelings you may find yourself stuck, then the goal is trying to get unstuck. Can’t sleep, worried half to death, snacks in the middle of the night kind of stuck need attention. Here’s what I do, and you can too:

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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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