Archive for February, 2009

Out of Africa: The Palava African Restaurant and Bar in Aurora (Denver Post)

Friday, February 27th, 2009

Sometimes a restaurant is more than its food. It’s a place to belong, to reconnect, to reaffirm. That’s what Hellen Namuddu was hoping to find two years ago, when she discovered The Palava African Restaurant and Bar.

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Reader Recipe Swap: The column will return next week with slow-cooker recipes (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

Friday, February 27th, 2009

Reader requests The Reader Recipe Swap column will return next week with slow-cooker recipes. We’d like to see your favorite main-dish or side-dish recipes for Easter and Passover. Readers are seeking recipes for low-sodium and low-fat beef or pork tamales, for a white-bean dish called Border Beans and for a chocolate cookie with a coconut center. Pleas for dishes from restaurants past …

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‘Supersizing’ isn’t limited to restaurant portions (The Standard-Times)

Friday, February 27th, 2009

Eating at home can save you some cash, but beware the calorie cost. Though restaurants often take the blame for portion distortion — the trend of serving up ever larger helpings — cookbook recipes have done some supersizing of their own, a…

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PANCAKE RECIPES, BACON RECIPES (Macon Telegraph)

Friday, February 27th, 2009

PANCAKE RECIPES

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Couscous With Winter Vegetables and Beans – New York Times

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

New York Times
Couscous With Winter Vegetables and Beans
New York Times, United States
This series offers recipes with an eye towards empowering you to cook healthy meals every day. Produce, seasonal and locally grown when possible, and a well-stocked pantry are the linchpins of a good diet, and accordingly, each week’s recipes will
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Couscous With Winter Vegetables and Beans – New York Times

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

New York Times
Couscous With Winter Vegetables and Beans
New York Times, United States
This series offers recipes with an eye towards empowering you to cook healthy meals every day. Produce, seasonal and locally grown when possible, and a well-stocked pantry are the linchpins of a good diet, and accordingly, each week’s recipes will
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Gass or Pass (The Shorthorn)

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Owner Paul Vinyard opened the first location in 1993 with his late wife Mary Beth inside an early 1900s building. The name Babe originally came from Mary Beth’s nickname. She developed the recipes. The Vinyards wanted to open all of their restaurants in century-old buildings.

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Recipe exchange: 2/25 (Journal Inquirer)

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

With Lent beginning today, Peter Doyle of Windsor and JoAnn Shupe came racing to the rescue of a reader who in last week’s column requested scallop recipes — which are of particular interest during the fish-on-Fridays season.

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Restaurant Review: A Santa Cruz favorite deliciously reincarnated in Oswald (Santa Cruz Sentinel)

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Since Oswald restaurant opened almost exactly two months ago, a great debate has raged among local culinary connoisseurs: Old Oswald versus New Oswald.

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Super-sizing found in cookbook recipes (The Columbus Dispatch)

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Not just fast-food restaurants have super-sized the way Americans eat: Cookbooks share the blame.

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