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Guest Blog: Gettin Comfy in Singapore
Once again I am happy to host a new guest blogger to The Rantings of an Amateur Chef. Roz contacted me and inquired if I would be interested in an authentic Chinese comfort food recipe. My...
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Gourmet Club Main Course Part 1: Grilled Shrimp with Thai Lime Dipping Sauce
Time for the main course of the main course of the Gourmet Club. As I had set the theme, “Food on a Stick”, there were a few obvious choices: kabobs, corn dogs and fondue. While fondue had an...
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Ramekin Cooking
As mentioned in my recent Gourmet Club reports, I made a number of different dipping sauces. As each attendee (8 of us) was served six different sauces, I had a need for forty-eight containers. As I...
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My Delusions of Being a Professional Chef
This blog has changed not only what I cook, but in many ways how I cook. When I started the blog, I stole the idea of showing a picture of all of the ingredients for the recipe from a number of other...
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Chili Cook-Off Contender: Texas Red
As summer has turned to fall it has become chili. Not chilly, but chili! I host a chili cook-off every January and this year I have committed to trying a few chili recipes before the contest. This...
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Montgomery Memories
I spent my fourth grade living in Montgomery, Alabama. At risk of offending any readers from there, it was really not my thing. California born, living previously in Denver, moving to Montgomery was a...
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Maggie Monday: Avoiding H-E-double hockey sticks
I always find it interesting when people substitute alternate words for curse words. I can understand it with children, or in published materials like here on the blog, but in most cases isn’t the...
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Mooching in the Parking Lot
Tailgating… When categorizing recipes I do so by significant ingredient, cuisine and diet. In some cases I’ll specify a cooking style such as slow cooker or grilling. I think I should look at adding a...
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Shaking up Spring
I started making spring rolls several years ago. Previously made for the blog, I have gotten too much in a routine about what I put in them. Broccoli slaw, green cabbage, shredded chicken and peanuts...
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Feliz Thanksgiving
What is the best part of Thanksgiving? Getting together with family and friends? No. Cowboys and Lions football? Not in the least. Pumpkin pie? Getting closer. The answer……LEFTOVERS!! While there is...
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Happy New Year’s Chicken Tamales
Many cultures have special foods for the New Year. Growing up, our New Years food could be whatever we could eat while spending the day watching college football. Others, however, have more specific...
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My Blog Habit
We are all creatures of habit. It gives a place to feel comfortable. It makes things easy. Helps to define our identify. In putting together blog posts, I do the following: Make the recipe with photos...
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Going Insane
I think I am going insane. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results – Albert Einstein As mentioned in a number of previous posts, I really want to like Indian...
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Don’t Rub it On Your Skin and Sunbathe
A nice sunny day. Five young girls. A bag of limes. A visit to the hospital. Huh? According to ABC News, five young girls were smashing limes with rocks and daring each other to drink juice from the...
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Pi(e)
π 3.14159…… The irrational number, most commonly used for converting the radius of a circle into the area of a circle, has a life of its own beyond mathematics. It has its own holiday, (Pi day – 3/14)....
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Joel and Yul
Some actors are either so great in a role, or in the case of the stage, perform the role so many times, they become synonymous with the character. There are two that stick in my mind for the stage. The...
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I’ll Never See My Feet Again
When I was a child, my dad’s parents lived in Marion, Ohio and every summer, without fail, we’d go to visit them. In many cases it was just my brother and I going back for the visit and during those...
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Maggie Monday: Thai Peanut Chicken
I love hot dishes and I frequent to say that I burned out my taste buds long ago. When I go into a Thai restaurant and they ask me how hot I like it on a scale from 1 to 10 and I tell them 8-9 they...
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3 Partial Jars of Peanut Butter
I will often open up my pantry, fridge or freezer and declare we have so much food already, I don’t know why I go to the grocery store every week. Well, I do know. Some of the reason is for the...
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Roll and Deep Fry
Roll or fold it up and deep fry it. There are so many dishes where those are some of the final instructions. The wrapper can be a variety of things such as egg roll wrappers (egg rolls), tortillas...
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