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Restaurant Review: Sitar India Palace, Durham, NC
The non-vegetarian thali at Sitar Indian Cuisine. I’ve only had Indian food a couple times in my life and neither experience was anything to dwell on. That, plus my general lack of enthusiasm for...
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This Is the Cooking Show I Would Watch
We caught the Techniques episode of Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations” show on the Travel Channel last night. Unlike the usual episodes of the show, instead of going around the world and sampling the...
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Making Fries the Les Halles Way
Watching the Techniques episode on Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations” a few days ago got us in the mood to try the recipes demonstrated on the show, so we made French fries tonight using the same...
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The Start of My TV Cooking Show Empire
Courtney and I have been blogging about our culinary adventures for a couple months and we’ve been enjoying documenting our food preparation in words and pictures. We knocked it up a notch this past...
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Why Is “In Search of Perfection” on Planet Green?
My wife and I don’t watch a ton of TV, but we do like to watch food-related shows. We’ve watched several episodes of “In Search of Perfection” on the Planet Green channel lately. Here’s the gist of...
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Man-on-Duck Violence … Or How to Make Peking Duck
I’ve written before about Heston Blumenthal and his cooking show, In Search of Perfection. The chef became the target of my ire and snark a couple weeks ago when we watched an episode of his show...
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Pictures From the State Fair
We hadn’t been to the North Carolina State Fair in a couple years. I’ve never been too enthusiastic about the state fair ever since a nightmarish ride on the swinging pirate ship at the fair back in...
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Kung Fu Chefs: A Brilliantly Bad Movie
While watching the Hong Kong episode of Bizarre Foods the other night, we saw a segment where Andrew Zimmern went to shoot a Hong Kong-style Kung Fu fight scene, and the introduction for that segment...
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Eating Our Way Around Durham
Churrasco steak and sweet potato fries at Metro 8. As part of Courtney’s birthday present, I signed the two of us up for a walking food tour of Durham this past Saturday. It turned out to be a great...
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Don’t Want to Waste Food? Start by Eating Your Own Leftovers!!
I saw this Gizmodo story today about LeftoverSwap, a new mobile app that lets people give away their leftover food to others who are hungry and broke. The idea goes something like this: If you have...
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Secrets of Chinese Cooking
Actually, these are more like basic ingredients in many Chinese dishes. The post Secrets of Chinese Cooking appeared first on Matters of Varying Insignificance.
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Naan in Oven
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Red Snapper
The red snapper we had this past weekend, waiting to be steamed. The post Red Snapper appeared first on Matters of Varying Insignificance.
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This Is the Cooking Show I Would Watch
We caught the Techniques episode of Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations” show on the Travel Channel last night. Unlike the usual episodes of the show, instead of going around the world and sampling the...
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