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Gluten-Free Tuesday: Teff
All the injera that I have had tasted like baking soda to me. Every venue. I avoid it now, which is terrible for me because I love all the other aspects of Ethiopian food in the restaurants I have been to. The meat dishes and veg are great, the injera just puts me off.
Starbucks Yields to Customer Demand; Brings Back Burnt Coffee
I cannot stand Starbucks coffee. But really what does it matter what it tastes like when you put all the flavorings etc. I think that's what people really go there for, the crazy concoctions of sugar.
Dinner Tonight: Refried Beans Your Way
I cook on a yacht, and let me tell you, sometimes it is not so easy to find the right ingredients when you are out to sea. Recently I was asked to do a TexMex kind of meal. I made flank steak along with a number of other items, but for the beans I had everything except the pork fat. I usually do my beans with some kind of pork fat, be it bacon drippings or lard, etc. But I had zero, the owners are not big pork fans and don't even eat bacon (if that is possible!) I did have plenty of duck fat. Lord, people were lining up for the beans. A good fat gives the beans that silkiness of texture that I feel is important even with a chunky profile, and man these beans were out of this world. I will always go back to pork when available, but this was a terrific alternative and kosher for sure.
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Nothing is better than the Filipino ginger chicken soup with rice for breakfast. I can't remember the proper name, but the Filipino diner next to my workplace had it every morning. Chicken soup with rice, ginger, garlic, maybe lemon grass, and always a hard boiled egg hidden inside. There was always a line and great disappointment if you got there too late to get a bowl.