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Foodbuzz Festival Day 3

Jerry — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:24:02 +0000

And finally my recap of the Foodbuzz Food Festival Farewell Brunch. If you haven’t already seen my recap of Day 1 and visit site to read more]

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Foodbuzz Festival Day Two

Jerry — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:38:13 +0000

As I left Day One of the Foodbuzz Blogger Festival I was in a funk, but the gorgeous sunny San Francisco day that greeted me for day two of the event went a long way toward lifting my … [visit site to read more]

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Foodbuzz Festival Day One

Jerry — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:30:31 +0000

This weekend I had the honor of joining several hundred of my peers in food blogging at the first annual Foodbuzz Blogger Festival in lovely San Francisco, California. It was an amazing experience all the way around, far more than I can fit into … [visit site to read more]

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Thirteen Things I’m Thankful For This Year

Jerry — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:57:48 +0000

It’s been a long while since I’ve participated in a Thursday Thirteen, but with Thanksgiving just a week and a day away I thought it would be a good time to list a few things that I am personally thankful for this year. I’ll not bore you with the details of the ups-and-downs we’ve faced, everyone has lows, and nobody wants to listen to someone elses’ problems. I’d rather focus on the things that keep me smiling, motivated and happy that I’ve lived long enough to see them.

So these, my … [visit site to read more]

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Pizza Dough Recipe – A Daring Bakers Adventure

Jerry — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:24:46 +0000

This post is really the tale of a pizza and a calzone who came from very humble roots but grew to be loved by all who knew them. It’s a tale of hope, triumph and gluttony, a must read, for sure. The Pizza was of Asian descent, while the Calzone was a Southern Belle, but both shared a common bond, a bond that kept their lives on a similar course and eventually led them to the same inescapable fate…

I ate ‘em, and they were good!

Both of these dishes were made for the Daring Bakers Challenge. This month’s event was hosted be the incredible Rosa, of Rosa’s Yummy Yums, whom I really need to thank, because I’d never even considered making my own pizza dough before now and having done it, I’m afraid I’m a bit of an addict. This is really good dough! (Dough recipe is at the end of this post.)

The first night I made pizza, but being the guy I am, I wasn’t gonna settle for just any ol’ sausage and pepperoni rig. I had a couple packages of Korean style ribs in the freezer that were calling my name, and they got the loving for the evening.

I wish I could tell you exacly how I made the topping for that particular pizza. Unfortunately I really was cooking by the seat of my pants, so I can just give a hint at the ingredients. The beef was braised in a combination of chicken stock, water, soy, hoisin, sweet chili sauce, plum sauce, onion, garlic, honey, seasoned rice vinegar, lime juice and cilantro fro about six hours. The “Pizza Sauce” was a mix of hoisin, soy sauce and black bean garlic paste. To. Die. For!

As for the calzone, well, I’ve got the whole scoop on that one. read on after the jump for a step by step guide to making your own breakfast calzone, Southern Style!

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Thirteen Reasons Giada de Laurentiis should have someone else write her recipes

Jerry — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:51:26 +0000

For those of you who have missed the claws coming out on Thursdays, you’re in luck. Today I’m directing a bit of snarkasm on FN’s Bobblehead Extraordinaire. I’ve just been nice for too long, it seems.

Cry havoc, and unleash the dogs of war!

Ah Giada. To some she’s the Food Network’s beauty queen. Others think she is a time traveling chef from the distant future. (You can’t make up stuff like this!) Neither matters to me. Whether she’s just a beauty queen or a future chef who is not familiar with our language, she should not be writing recipes.

Why? You ask. Because if you follow her recipes, you will accomplish one of the following feats. You will:

Make something terrible
Cause damage to appliances or cutlery
Do yourself bodily harm
Feel stupid following this recipe

Granted, common sense may save you from one of the above scenarios, but let’s face facts. Giada is a celebrity chef. Some people are going to assume that they need to follow “her” instructions to the leter. The results could be devastating.

I’ll be honest. Everyone who writes recipes makes mistakes. I’ve done it. I’ve been called on it. I correct it. But in the case of any food network celebrity, there should be proof readers, ya know? In a network that employs its very own food librarian and is owned by one of the largest media powerhouses in the country, you would think someone would check to see if something … foolish … managed to slip past the chef, or her writers, or the web guys, or something. But they’re not, and Miss de Laurentiis is the worst case that they have.

So here we go. I’ll list the recipe snippets, then tell you why one of the above bad things might happen. FAir enough? OK, let’s move on.

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Thirteen Things about my wife – TT #30

Jerry — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:04:24 +0000

With my wedding anniversary coming up this Friday, there really was only one logical choice for this week’s Thursday Thirteen, The lovely and incredibly talented Mrs. seat of her Pants, a person whom I could not be more proud of or in love with.

Truthfully, thirteen things does not begin to cover everything I could say about my wife, there’s a lot more to her than that. She is exceptional at being so many different things; a wife, a mother, my best friend, an instructor and mentor for Department of Defense students, an author and editor, and more. She gives 120% of herself to each and every one of these things, sometimes to more than one of them at the same time. Unfortunately, the nature of the Thursday Thirteen is that I only have room for thirteen things.

And for those of you who aren’t fans of washed out Nagel-esque photos, here’s another shot of the reason I wake up every morning wishing I could just lie there all day.

Please note that these are not in any order whatsoever:

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Another Frugal Friday is coming up!

Jerry — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:15:03 +0000

Just a quick reminder that entries for the sixth round of Frugal Fridays Food Blog Fun is upon us. C’Mon! We want to see you there! Dive into the kitchen and whip up a frugal treat, then pop over to FrugalFridays.net and tell us where to find it. The more the … [visit site to read more]

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Thirteen ingredients I probably rely too heavily upon – TT#29

Jerry — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:22:07 +0000

Everyone has their go-to ingredients. These are the things that you grab when you’re cooking that you may not even realize you use almost every day. At least until you run out of them, at which point you find that you’re staring blankly at the spice cabinet and the food that’s begun to burn in your skillet without the faintest idea what to do next.

I ran into this problem last week when I realized I was out of black peppercorns. (or thought I was… They had fallen over behind a huge container of chili powder and I didn’t see them.) It took me a full five minutes to realize that I actually do have preground pepper in the pantry and it’s fresh, because I never-ever use it.

So here we go. These are some of the things that I would be lost without in my pantry or my refrigerator.

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Daring Baker’s – Danish Braid…

Jerry — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:02:58 +0000

Is an event that I missed out on, due to an inability to get cardamom in time to actually get it done.

Oh sure. Ben gave an alternative, but really… There is no substitute for cardamom, so I sat this one out.

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