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I've only recently discovered the thoroughly wonderful blog, Matt Bites. This week his post on artichokes answered a question I posed about Fiesole artichokes almost a year ago to the day.

Do you only have one bottle of soy sauce in your pantry? Well shame on you! Me too. But I've learned what I need to know about soy sauce from the latest primer over at Tigers & Strawberries and so can you.

You've heard of dessert for breakfast, crepes, fruit salad and the like, but how about breakfast for dessert? Check out a la cuisine who documents Smoked Bacon and Egg Ice Cream, Pain Perdu and Tea Jelly.

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- Somebody's Mother's Chocolate Sauce: Favorite Things
Considering that I'm the kind of person that likes nothing better than left-over pizza or pasta for breakfast, this past week was a tough one. The dietary restrictions associated with Passover prevented me from eating either bread or pasta so I...

- Favorite Things: Yuzu
Does this ever happen to you? You read about some interesting ingredient, the next thing you know it ends up in your shopping basket. I'm sure it was Thy's post about yuzu that got me on the lookout for all yuzu related products. I spotted yuzu...

- What's Red, White And Blueberry?
It really hadn't dawned on me to participate in yet another online event this month...but Lee asked me if I had any dessert planned and I didn't. A quick mental check of the refrigerator yielded yogurt, blueberries and strawberries. I considered...

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The most spectacular post of the week is not a post at all, but an electronic book, the second brought to you by Tasting Menu blogger Hillel Cooperman. In creating Autumn Omokase from Tatsu Nishino the team has really outdone themselves with fantastic...

- No Recipe Pumpkin Soup Recipe
Necessity is the mother of invention. Nothing could be truer in the kitchen. It's amazing what you can cook when you have very little in the pantry. It can be much more challenging and yet gratifying to try to figure out what do with the ingredients...



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