Recipes by kathy gori (Page 62)
Running Dog Dessert!Last night my husband chased an elusive Patsy though the fields around the dog park. He had me on the cell phone listening all the way. I was shouting, he was shouting, Patsy was running. Monitoring this whole dog rodeo via my iphone reminded me of watching Avatar last week. I felt as though I was back at the base station trying to… |
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Indian Rice Pudding Goes EgyptianI live in a tourist town. Every day busloads of tourists arrive in our town Plaza (the largest in California) and swarm over the restaurants, tasting rooms and shops. Last year a new shop opened with the intriguing name of Bram. While we waited for the doors to open everyone was wondering, "what's a bram???" I googled the term and… |
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Cardamom and Saffron Pot De CremesWhen not dealing with my Volvo which is feeling just fine now thank you due to an infusion of cash, I am a writer. I work with my husband. We write screenplays and I cook lunch. That deal started when we were first married and had a big kitchen table and no office so we moved the computer into the kitchen and I'd cook while we wrote.… |
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I've Got My Goat, plus Now I smoke My Own!We had a scary night last night when in the middle of a rainstorm our lights went out. Blam, instant darkness! we were rocketed back to the cave days, just candles, Alan,the Wolf (Patsy the Siberian Husky)and me with a goat in the fridge merrily defrosting.That was my worry. That it would defrost way too fast, and my goaty feast would… |
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Deck The Halls With Cardamom And Saffron! Pot de Cremes Go EastWhen not dealing with my Volvo which is feeling just fine now thank you due to an infusion of cash, I am a writer. I work with my husband. We write screenplays and I cook lunch. That deal started when we were first married and had a big kitchen table… |
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Blankity Blank HeirloomsPagesBlankity Blank HeirloomsHeirlooms used to be the stuff that arrived in a cardboard box after great aunt Gertrude kicked the bucket. Things that were passed down . The odd chair, a string of pearls, the family silver, usually not potatoes....or any other vegetable for that matter. Until things started to change. Many years ago… |
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Chanukah Lunch Indian Style!PagesChanukah Lunch Indian Style!What do you get when you cross an Italian girl from San Francisco with a Jewish guy from New York City...Indian food! Usually. My husbands' sister after all, got me started with all this Indian cooking 20 years ago and I've just taken it from there. Celebration dinners at our house generally revolve… |
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A Tale of Two Neighbors Or How Italian Peppers Found their Way Into Indian FoodPagesA Tale of Two Neighbors Or How Italian Peppers Found their Way Into Indian FoodThis isn't a very complicated story. It's mainly the tale of a small town (Sonoma). There are about 9,000 people in our town, pretty shocking when you've been living in… |
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Beet It!PagesBeet It!Yesterday I was over the moon that I'd found a new South Asian Market here in Sonoma county. As I think I'd mentioned before we have only ONE Indian market in the entire county and they're not always the best stocked. It's the thing I do miss about Los Angeles. Ready access to good ethnic grocers.I needed to go over to… |
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Here's Where I Go BananasPagesHere's Where I Go Food Ninja BananasHave you ever gone shopping and found yourself buying something, bringing it home sticking it in the closet and just keeping it there? Have you ever had one of those "what was I thinking?!" moments, where you wondered what the hell you were thinking when you bought something in… |
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