Food Blog

This was an experiment that worked out pretty well (although I could have taken a better photograph, I was just too hungry). The sauce is made with roasted eggpplant, yellow squash and red pepper and yogurt. I found some goat milk yogurt, which has a bit more richness. Its fairly simple, and can be done […]

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The comments from my vegetarian question brought up an interesting issue - vegetarian wine. There’s meat in wine you say? Is that why it goes so well with food? Actually it has to do with the ‘fining” of wine, or the clarifying process. From this article in the Vegetarian Journal:
“Some clarifiers are animal-based products, while […]

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Here’s some more food blogs that weren’t on my list:
Pie blog!
Appetites
hungry tiger

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Kurtosis at Skewness has a post about being admonished in a Whole Foods by a militant vegetarian. I repeat my comment here:
If an individual feels that strongly about meat being murder, why do they shop in a place that sells it?
Same thing has happened to me a few times, in varying degrees at […]

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This foodie quiz is going around. Way too easy, even though I didn’t know what a Chiogga was.

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The Nobody’s Fool Eating Journal has a short post on ajvar, one of those little know food items that should be in everybody’s frig.
I thought I’d share with you my favorite ajvar. Ajvar for those of you who don”t kinow is an eggplant and red pepper spread. Adjika is the same sort of thing […]

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I’m preparing my report on a trip to The Illinois State Fair, but in the meantime you can read about it at Andrew’s and Cinnamon’s blogs.
Also check out these food links:
Cooking with monkey via AKMA
Does a 50-buck wineglass buy you better-tasting wine?
Slashdot questions for Alton Brown I’ll have to remember to look for the answers […]

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This is a typical Italian pasta dish with a few un-Italian vegetables thrown in. The mix of Thai eggplant, poblano and Asian sweet twist peppers melds with the tomato sauce and calamari the same way regular eggplant and common bell peppers would. Some fresh mozzarella is essential in the mix.
1/2 pound or more, cleaned […]

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