Interested in making the Best Fried Chicken Ever? You'd start with a brine, perhaps the one
Thomas Keller uses, which has lemon, honey, herbs and peppercorns. Harlem's master chicken fryer
Charles Gabriel prefers a dry brine and the legendary
Edna Lewis would have you brine the chicken a second time in buttermilk.
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posted by AceRock
on Jan 19, 2010 -
47 comments
Happy Thanksgiving, MetaFilter! If you have friends from different parts of the U.S., you might have wondered why they consider certain dishes to be an essential part of a Thanksgiving feast, when you've never even thought of them as remotely Thanksgiving-related. Now you can see what dishes were popular searches on
allrecipes.com in various states thanks to
a series of infographics in the
New York Times.
posted by grouse
on Nov 26, 2009 -
70 comments
Luxirare is about killer clothes and fine cuisine. Recent features include:
Thanksgiving Part I, creating a thanksgiving meal that is less about an abundance of leftovers and instead maximizing the visual appeal of “thanksgiving” symbols like the pumpkin, as a dessert; and
Pie Pops, for those who want to eat pie, but don’t want a whole slice—who want to try multiple flavors, but for just a bite or two, then move onto another.
posted by netbros
on Nov 20, 2009 -
24 comments
Want to have a small bacon pick-me-up in the office or away from home? The food blog, Homesick Texan, presents the traditional recipe for
Bacon Jam.
posted by 1f2frfbf
on Sep 16, 2009 -
43 comments
Cooks around the world deserve a simple place to find any recipe. Enter
RecipeBridge. Have an ingredient you don't know what to do with? Enter it into RecipeBridge for recipe ideas returned from more than 200 cooking sites. C'est magnifique.
posted by netbros
on May 9, 2009 -
5 comments
Cooking with Dog is a fantastic Japanese cooking show on YouTube - but don't worry, they don't actually cook dogs. It's just that in Japan, an internet cooking show comprised of short videos of simple Japanese recipes just wouldn't be interesting unless it was narrated by a talking poodle.
Katsudon /
Oden /
Gyudon
posted by billysumday
on Apr 12, 2009 -
26 comments
Feeling the pinch?
Ninety-something Clara Cannucciari can teach you how to survive the lean times. In a series of YouTube videos directed by her great grandson, Clara reminisces about the Great Depression ("I had to quit high school because I couldn't afford socks!"), and provides cooking tips on such Depression-era fare as
Pasta with Peas (6:32),
Egg Drop Soup (6:52),
Poorman's Meal (6:50),
Peppers and
Eggs (Part 1, 5:41; Part 2, 5:47),
Bread (4:08), and
Depression Breakfast (6:13).
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posted by mudpuppie
on Feb 19, 2009 -
26 comments
In Mamas Kitchen was born in the experience of living in New York where a
bodega exists within blocks of a
Jewish deli which is around the corner from an
Italian salumeria which shares space with
Chinatown which abuts
Soho's gourmet stores. While this speaks of the legendary variety available in New York, it also tells of similarity, for in every bodega, every salumeria is someone shopping for the food that sustains physical life with a
recipe that nourishes our hearts.
posted by netbros
on Dec 15, 2008 -
11 comments
Never had an Indian mom? You poor, deprived wretch! Meet
Manjula.
She'll be happy to teach you to make
Naan,
Rotis,
Pani Puri,
Vegetable Pakoras,
Paneer,
Raita,
Navattran Korma,
Palak Paneer,
Pulav,
Malai Kofta,
Aloo Gobi,
Chana Masala,
Hari Chutney,
Ras Malai,
Gajar ka Halwa and
much more! I can... almost... smell her kitchen. *sigh*
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur
on Dec 7, 2008 -
50 comments
"Food Party is a (would-be) TV cooking show with a spicy saigon kitchen-witch as your hostess, a cast of unruly puppets as culinary advisors, and a cavalcade of hip-hop/sports world celebrities as surprise dinner guests. Shot on location in a technicolor cardboard kitchen, each episode will instruct you on how to prepare wild gourmet multi-course meals with ingredients you probably have on hand in your kitchen already, such as pretzel rods, cheese puffs, eggs, sugar, secret ingredients, and pizza. After all, you never know who might show up for dinner."
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posted by cog_nate
on Jul 1, 2008 -
14 comments
What Am I Craving? That's the question we always ask ourselves when thinking about what to eat. So we got to thinking: wouldn't it be cool to have a tool that could listen to what we were craving and then suggest something good to cook?
posted by amyms
on Jan 25, 2008 -
28 comments
