Question about Shakoothi/Xacuti">Question about Shakoothi/Xacuti

By: chefenvy | 0 Comments | On: October 1, 2013 | Category : Recipes

I have been comparing two sorts of receipes for this Goan dish. One version comes from Jaffrey's "Indian Cooking": http://www.dilovely.com/2012/05/goan-style-chicken-with-roasted-coconut-shakoothi/ . The other comes from one or more websites, such as this: http://www.spicytasty.com/meat-and-seafood-entrees/chicken-xacuti/ The latter includes tamarind water, coconut milk and optional vinegar. This would seem to make for...

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What to make when you have a newborn...">What to make when you have a newborn...

By: chefenvy | 0 Comments | On: October 1, 2013 | Category : Recipes

So as the topic suggest, wife and I have a newborn and are finding it difficult to find the time to make something more substantial than a sandwich or frozen food. We think it could be great to put our crockpot to use and so I pose this to...

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Kristen Nilsson Farley: Using Food to Teach About the Environment -- and Vice Versa">Kristen Nilsson Farley: Using Food to Teach About the Environment -- and Vice Versa

By: chefenvy | 0 Comments | On: October 1, 2013 | Category : Recipes

How can we engage young adults in a deeper understanding about the food system and their role in it if we never give them the opportunity to think about it?

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How to prepare cod for fishcakes?">How to prepare cod for fishcakes?

By: chefenvy | 0 Comments | On: October 1, 2013 | Category : Recipes

I have fresh (not preserved in salt, just frozen) cod fillets and I've tried them fried with a cornmeal crust and also simmered with olives and tomatoes. I'd like to next make codfish cakes with mashed potato. These aren't like crab cakes, with chunks of fish. The...

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Government Shutdown May Make You Sick -- Literally">Government Shutdown May Make You Sick -- Literally

By: chefenvy | 0 Comments | On: October 1, 2013 | Category : Recipes

One troubling casualty of the federal government shutdown -- more troubling even than the blackout of the panda cam at the National Zoo -- is the susp...

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Leora Kalikow: Gen Y Is Gen Wine">Leora Kalikow: Gen Y Is Gen Wine

By: chefenvy | 0 Comments | On: October 1, 2013 | Category : Recipes

Millennials are a notoriously flighty, flaky bunch, so it comes as some surprise that they are leading wine industry growth -- a market plagued by old guard attitude and pretension.

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This Is Why Chicago Could Probably Stand To Lose A Few Pounds">This Is Why Chicago Could Probably Stand To Lose A Few Pounds

By: chefenvy | 0 Comments | On: October 1, 2013 | Category : Recipes

Move over, ramen burger. Take a hike, cronut burger. We've seen a lot of different things in this age of food mashups galore, but this just might be o...

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There's Too Much Great Food In Portland">There's Too Much Great Food In Portland

By: chefenvy | 0 Comments | On: October 1, 2013 | Category : Recipes

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Getting a great meal in Portland is harder than you'd think.
Not for lack of talented chefs creating world-clas... ...

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Really Tasty Tomato Sauce For Stuffed Cabbage (Golabki)">Really Tasty Tomato Sauce For Stuffed Cabbage (Golabki)

By: chefenvy | 0 Comments | On: October 1, 2013 | Category : Recipes

I've been making Polish stuffed cabbage for years, and eating it all my life. I feel like I've improved on my mother's basic recipe and am happy with the meat and rice stuffing, but I'd like to kick up the tomato sauce a notch or two. Mom made the tomato sauce...

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Danielle Nierenberg: 26 Films Every Food Activist Must Watch">Danielle Nierenberg: 26 Films Every Food Activist Must Watch

By: chefenvy | 0 Comments | On: October 1, 2013 | Category : Recipes

Films and short videos are a powerful way of increasing awareness of in the food system. With equal parts technology and artistry, filmmakers can bring an audience to a vegetable garden in Uganda, a fast food workers' rights protest in New York City, or...

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