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Jalapeno Cheddar Bread
For this recipe it would help to start by reading this post – Easy White Dough.
Then follow the pictorial by clicking on the first picture below, captions/directions will then show underneath!
Bread (19 photos)
4 December 2009
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Note: To see the pictures in the original Picasa album, click here
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Wine Pairing: a widget to help!
Have you bought a good wine and want to match food with it? Bought or made some good food and 
want to match a good wine with it within your budget range? Natalie MacLean has a Drinks Matcher on her website that you can also use as a widget on your website! I was going to put her widget on my site to help other people out who may visit but I think its much better to visit her site and use the Drinks Matcher there: Nat Decants
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Help with your Doughs & Batters
Do you know who Michael Ruhlman is? He writes about many subjects in magazines and 
newspapers, but mostly in books and mostly about food, chefs, and cooking—issues also covered in his blog. His most recent book,
Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking
as the title states – gives you many simple codes behind cooking. If you have no intentions of reading the book, or just want a sample of what knowing ratios can do, Michael has posted a PDF… READ MORE!
TX Smokehouse BBQ…in San Jose, CA?
I have tasted some BBQ here & there, of this and that…and it really just seems people want to cook meat any old kind of way and put some BBQ sauce on it, then call it BBQ.
At the Texas Smokehouse BBQ it tasted like real BBQ, which means the meat is cooked a certain way (at least to me, and I am from the South) and its got to have an element of smoke or outdoor grill to it!
Here there is no valet parking, servers/waiters, reserved… READ MORE!
Moroccan Style Sweet Potato Salad
Marius commented me on facebook because I usually update about food I am going to cook or am going to eat…
“Tyrone, I would be very interested in the morrocan sweet potato recipe…”
or in this case the wonderful food my wifey made!
Ingredients
- 2 large sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into cubes
- 1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger (or more if you like)
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 teaspoons harissa or chili garlic sauce (you may could improvise w/cayenne)
- 1 lemon, juiced
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Easy White Dough
I put this recipe together for my own use a long time ago. A yeast dough (and different kinds of dough in general) get a certain ‘feel’ to them and you start noticing this…Then you make better judgements on when to add a little more water, more flour, or a pimch more of salt. From this same dough I can alter the sugar and other ingredients to produce cinnamon rolls, pizza crust, pita bread, naan bread…sometimes its just the kneading, rise time, technique… READ MORE!
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