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Recreating a Restaurant Favorite I've written about the Spicy Beef Salad from one of my favorite local haunts, Daisy Mint. It's tangy, spicy, fresh and light and I am, in a word, addicted. So today I decided to try and recreate the infamous salad. 1 lb flank steak 1/3 cup of low-sodium soy sauce 1/4 cup of rice wine vinegar 1 tablespoon chili sauce Salad6 cups of romaine lettuce, torn into bite-sized pieces2 tomatoes, sliced3 green onions, sliced diagonally1/3 cup fresh mint leaves, chopped1/4 cup of fresh cilantro, chopped Dressing:1/3 cup fresh lime juice1/4 cup fresh cilantro leaves, chopped2 Tbsp brown sugar1 Tbsp soy sauce, low sodium1 Tbsp water1 Tbsp fish sauce, bottled4 cloves garlic, minced1 serrano pepper, seeded and minced (you can leave seeds for more spice) DirectionsPreheat grill or broiler.Prepare marinade by mixing together the soy sauce, rice wine vinegar and chili sauce. Dressing: Combine all dressing ingredients in a jar or bowl; mix well. Enjoy!

Cooking With Seeds - Cardamom Seeds Am here with this month's seeds for cooking with seeds event, after going through many seeds my final choice went for cardamom seeds...Cardamom or cardamom seeds is a popular spice used in India and in Middle East..Cardamom seeds are referred to as the Queen of spices, apart from its aromatic fragrance used for flavouring foods, cardamom also many healthy benefits for digestive system in aroma therapy..Caradmom seeds or cloves are used as versatile spice for making out sweet dishes or many spicy dishes also can be grounded into powder with their seeds to spice out many dishes.. You need to do: 1)Cook anything with green or black cardamom seeds, both vegetarian and non vegetarian dishes are accepted from today to 5th May 2010.. 2)Post as many dishes as u can in your blog from today onwards..many entries per person are allowed.. 3)Link back ur entry to this Cooking With Seeds announcement page.. 4)If u have any interesting tips its will be so useful, dont forget to send..

Bath and Body Recipes - Index - Bath and Body Recipes You Can Make at Home Cheesy, Green-Garlic Pull-Apart Bread Sharing is caring! Is pull-apart bread flying around the internet or what? It seems that every time I hop over to Pinterest, there is another pull-apart bread or at least a version of another one. I have been keeping this dirty little secret from Y’all for the past 5 months; warm, cheesy, garlicky pull-apart bread. Don’t fret that there are too many steps to making this garlic bread. When I made this bread for a dinner party this week, I decided to use some green garlic instead of the regular fresh garlic. Ingredients: *inspired by Lemon-Scented Pull-Apart Bread 2 3/4 cups ap flour 2 teaspoons sugar 1 teaspoon salt 2 1/4 teaspoons instant yeast (1 envelope) 1/3 cup whole milk 3 ounces unsalted butter 1/4 cup water 2 large eggs, room temperature 1 cup grated parmesan 1/2 cup unsalted butter 2 green garlic bulbs with part of the green or 4 cloves garlic, thinly sliced or 3 small garlic cloves 1 teaspoon salt How To: Making the dough: Putting it all together: Gently deflate the dough. Serve. Eat.

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The Colors Of Indian Cooking Hasselback Potatoes These Hasselback potatoes looks beautiful, don't' they? Here, I also added several cloves of garlic to these Swedish version of baked potatoes to enhance the flavor. It turned out great, they were very delicious, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside.. Updated: November 26th 2013 This is an updated post with a new video guide on How To Slice Hasselback Potatoes Hasselback Potatoes (Printable Recipe) Ingredients 6 Medium Size Potatoes 2 - 3 Cloves Garlic, thinly sliced 2 Tbsp Olive Oil 30 g Butter Maldon Sea Salt Freshly Ground Black Pepper Method Preheat the oven to 220˚C (425˚F). Arrange the potatoes in a baking tray and insert the garlic in between the slits. Bake the potatoes for about 40 minutes or until the potatoes turn crispy and the flesh is soft.

For the Love of Cooking How To Make A Rainbow Cake! by COLOURlovers So I did mention something about health and/or diet food in my last post, and while this recipe is the latter, it is most certainly not to be confused with the former. The cool thing is that if you’re making something so distractingly colourful, people will think it’s delicious no matter what. This presents me with the option to use an old Weight Watchers trick—the one-point cupcake. Except I’m making a cake and I created my own frosting. Kinda. This cake is suitable for many occasions: A child’s birthday Your mom’s birthday Coming out to your conservative parents If you’re a lesbian, they’ll be thrilled that you won’t be forgoing your feminine kitchen duties. If you’re the kind of gay dude who makes cakes for your parents, they were probably on to you anyway. Coming out to your conservative parents on your mother’s birthday Your friend’s jam band CD release party . . . so I’m sure you’ll find a use for this recipe soon. Oh yes, and do me a favour: DOUBLE THE RECIPE AS PHOTOGRAPHED HERE!! </i>*}

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cobbler baked in jars I made these for the Seattle Bake Sale for Share Our Strength organized by Frantic Foodie (thanks Keren!). I had so much fun making pies in jars that I figured this was the perfect opportunity to bake something else in jars. This time I used half-pint wide mouth jars, a nice size for a bake sale. (Half pint jars washed and drying.) I used the blueberry cobbler recipe from Baking Illustrated. (Look! These are great for bake sales because the packing is an eye catcher. The recipe, with notes on actually making it in jars, is below. Seriously, the cornmeal added to the biscuit batter makes all the difference here. I call this mise en jars, I used the washed jars from the overflowing and sticky (but sooo worth it) test batch. For each batch I used a 10-ounce package of frozen wild blueberries and, for the sake of economy, filled out the rest with locally grown (and gorgeous) frozen blueberries that are sold in 48-ounce bags. The scent of these baked goods right here is amazing. 1. 2. 3. 4.