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Slow And Easy

I have a bad habit of getting into a hurry when cooking. The reason I consider this a bad habit is because while it's true that you can "hurry things along" with some recipes or prep techniques, there are others that if you try to hurry them, all yo

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Double Headlines

Sometimes I wonder if the people putting headlines on a site bother to check with each other before they do something. Judging from a couple of headlines I saw today on Iwon’s news page in the technology section (as of Jul 23, 1:06 pm (ET) a

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Salsa With A Kick

Salsa has been a favorite of mine for dipping assorted chips and Cheetos for a long time. I used to prefer the hotter stuff but now I usually stick with the milder kinds. This recipe may not LOOK like it's all that hot, but be warned that habaneros

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Kitchen Sink Spaghetti Sauce

One of the great things about Spaghetti Sauce is that there's really no carved in stone way to make it. Everybody ends up with their version of sauce that suits their tastes and the ingredients they have available. For at least a year or two now we

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Cooking With Tinfoil In Microwave Oven

Some of the traffic that comes to Tinfoil Chef is from search engines. What I find interesting is looking at the search terms that they used because it's interesting to see what kind of search terms are returning results for Tinfoil Chef. Among the

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Garlic Cheddar Popcorn Balls

Start by peeling 50 cloves (that's roughly four entire heads) of garlic and mince it with a couple teaspoons of salt to keep it from sticking and to absorb garlic juices. You could also use minced garlic from a jar. Just check the label for the mea

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Reality Check: A “Billion” Perspective

There’s an email that I understand is currently making the rounds in the great email forward-a-thon that usually irks me no end. However, since I didn’t get it by email, and a blog such as this one is a much more appropriate (and public)

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“Brangelina” Is Not News, Especially Not Breaking News

In my email this recently: msnbc.com: BREAKING NEWS: Angelina Jolie gives birth to twins, AP reports What is it these days? are people THAT worried about what celebrities are up to? I am not a hamster, a birth announcement is something that lots of

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Terms: Beat, Béchamel, Beurre Blanc, Bisque

Here's a few more items for the terminology notebook. I've actually heard three of these quite a bit though I've never encountered the term Beurre Blanc before.

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When Pasta Meets Potatoes

This dish combined, among other things, pasta and potatoes. My wife and I had high hopes for this because it smelled so good in the slow cooker. What I *should* have done was adjust the recipe and stop short of adding any pasta to it.

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A Real Head-Scratcher

I have to say that it is, without doubt, three of the weirdest pictures of a house that I've ever seen. There's no text to explain what's showing so you have to decide for yourself what's going on.

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Calling All “Whiners”!

When I heard about Phil Gramm's comments this morning I had the same reaction that I'm sure many other Americans caught in the middle between need and greed did.

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Z-Coil Just Doesn’t Look Right

Ok, this commercial has been on enough times that I'm sure a lot of people have had a chance or six to look at these ridiculous looking things But I am not a hamster I can not keep quiet about this any more.

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Is Flying Still Safer Than Driving?

Y’know, I’ve heard for years about how it’s supposed to be safer to fly than do drive and maybe that was true twenty or thirty years ago, but stories like this recent one in which Obama’s plane had to make an unscheduled landi

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Kelly Ripa And The High Heel-A-Thon

I know it sounds ridiculous but apparently they actually did it. The “High Heel-a-thon” was held last Wednesday, July 9th. The way Kelly Ripa was talking about it on GMA, it apparently was supposed to be some kind of an answer to the tr

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All Purpose Marinade

Here's a good all purpose marinade that's good for use with grilled meats.

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Time For A Few Good Insults

China wants to have this image of being a modern country that actually cares about their people, believes in freedoms and all that. Thing is, we don't see a lot of that.

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Age Verification Cameras Fooled By Magazine Photos

Japan is working on deploying visual "age verification" cameras on cigarette vending machines. The idea is to make sure that the person using the machine is actually an adult. Unfortunately, there's a couple of little flies in that particular ointm

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Fashion Meets Politics?

What it's not is McCain's or Obama's position on any of the issues central to this election such as jobs, the economy, the price of fuel, alternative energy, the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan or even whether or not they're going to agree to debate in t

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Bill Gates Chewing Out Microsoft

With the retirement of Bill Gates (you know, the guy credited with saying that 640k was enough for anybody?) Well, it seems that one of his functions has been to try and keep the folks at Microsoft in step with reality. One of the ways was shown in

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Overnight Chicken Casserole

I think that the basic casserole is to everyday home cooking what picture frames are to photography. You could do without it but that would leave a big gaping hole in your recipe collection because there’s a lot of dishes that are technically

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Lisa Cooking: The Easy Way To Cook

Lisa Cooking .com is loaded with tempting recipes and a wealth of useful little tidbits in the form of a “Tip Of The Day” The blog itself is a no nonsense layout that’s easy on the eyes. It puts the main content on the left side of

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Not Everything “Cowboy” Rides A Horse

It’s almost strange but living here in one of the more rural parts of the Ozarks like I do, you’d think I’d have figured this one out by now. I mean, I am not a hamster, there’s plenty of places ’round here where you do

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Frozen Buster Bar Dessert

Here’s a dessert treat that is sure to have people wanting more. Although it’s a good idea to be careful about how much of this anyone has at one time. Otherwise you’ll end up with everybody in the house needing some serious treadm

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Terms: Fettuccine, Fines Herbes, Fish sauce, Flambé, Flan

Here’s a few more terms. Every time I go looking around for more of them to post, I run into things that I’ve heard before but never actually knew what they meant. One good example of that is Filé, which I remember hearing Justin Wilso

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The Summer Of Compressed Air Madness

Ever think about some of the big projects you got involved in when you were younger? That’s ok, I hardly ever do either. Today was an exception because something reminded me of what at the time was a really big project. A friend of mine had

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Terms: Batter, Battuto, Bavarian, Creme Anglaise, Bearnaise

I really should do more of these posts about terminology because honestly, I frequently learn as much as I’m sharing when I do them. Some of the terms I’ve heard actually sound more like parts you might be ordering to restore used Harley

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Facebook Overhead

I was just on my Facebook page, editing my “applications” because when I signed up recently I got into the game of the thing and before I realized it I had nearly thirty of them! As if that wasn’t enough, When adding them, I neglec

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Fuel Saving Vacations Becoming More Popular

It’s getting well into the beginning of vacation time and of course, with the latest efforts of the oil companies to bleed everybody dry, fuel has gotten more expensive than ever. Thing is, people still want to take vacations and honestly I am

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Bacteria Engineered To Produce Fuel

I just read an interesting article about a guy that’s apparently come up with something that, if it’s for real, could be the first steps of independence from foreign oil. A variety of bacteria that’s been engineered so that it will

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Cemetery Segregation

Just when you think you’ve heard everything, along comes proof that in fact, you haven’t. Case in point is a recent CBS News story about the case of an unidentified woman who was found with her hair cut off, a plastic bag over her head a

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Making Sauce Stick To Pasta

I’ve had a problem lately with tomato sauces, specifically the sauce didn’t want to sauce stick to the pasta, resulting in the pasta basically laying there in an almost “sauce soup” kinda thing. It would simply come right off

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The Curse Of The Email Forward

I got another one of *those* emails today. You know the kind, you get most of them not from the automated spam-bots around the Internet, but from your friends and family members. I’m sure you’ve seen the kind I’m talking about. Th

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NRA To Spend Millions In Campaign, Nobody Surprised

Image via WikipediaA recent CBS news item went into detail about the fact that the NRA is planning to spend some 40 million dollars during this campaign, with 15 million of it dedicated to portraying Obama as a threat to the second amendment right to

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Breakfast Sausage Casserole

This casserole is a great breakfast dish when served with a side of eggs but it also works just as well for lunch or supper with whatever side dish you prefer. While you’re doing the prep, preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Saute a chopped onion

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Gates Finally Leaving Microsoft

Bill Gates, the billionaire behind Microsoft, MS-Dos, and Windows. The man who is credited with saying “640K of ram is enough for anyone”, is calling it quits and is leaving Microsoft. The bad thing about this is that this means that Ste

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Screen Actors Guild Set For “Strike II”

Remember the Writer’s strike? I remember it. Some of the few things I liked about television were either killed by it or had their seasons ended several months early because of it. Now it’s a year later and we’re staring at the p

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O.J. In The News AGAIN?

Y’know, I’ll just bet that there’s plenty of people out there who share at least one of my opinions. I’m Sick of hearing about O.J. Simpson in the news. Now there’s a CBS story about his latest claim.. that a Nevada pr

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Is It Just Me Or Is Facebook Really Sloooooow?

I am not a hamster but lately Facebook has been making me feel like I’m in a giant hamster wheel. Loading profiles isn’t too bad but the “applications” can get to be horrendously slow… as in click on something and then

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Arkansas Finally Gets Lottery On Ballot!

After years of people trying, Arkansas finally has the issue of a state lottery on the November ballot. For years now people in Arkansas have been going to neighboring states to buy lottery tickets. This is money that, if Arkansas had it’s ow

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Noisey Neighbors

You know the type… prone to loud stereo’s going at all hours of the night and day, parties, fights, loud cars with engines racing… Trash cans clattering and banging in the middle of the night and once in a while a really loud fight

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WTF Is On Your Licence Plate

Here’s a giggle for you. Last year there were some 9,999 drivers in North Carolina who were issued license plates that had “WTF” as the first three characters. Naturally this caused a lot of giggling among people who’re up to

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FireFox Pushing IE Out

I was looking at my Statcounter logs today and I noticed something interesting. Despite Microsoft’s long standing claim to superior numbers of people using it’s IE browsers, it’s no longer even close to being the number one browser

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Orange Rice

I was looking through the kinda haphazard collection of files that makes up most of my recipe collection and tucked away in a forgotten directory on my flash drive was this rather interesting sounding rice dish. I do believe it’s the first tim

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Reducing The Acid In Tomato Sauce

Tomato sauce and by extension pasta sauce, pizza sauce and many others that are based on a tomato sauce. They’re all great, however there is one drawback for some people. The Tomato is basically an acidic plant and sauces maded from it are go

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WordPress “Don’t Nag Me About Upgrades” Hack

Do you have a WordPress blog that, every time you log on to it you get this big honking notice that you need to upgrade? Have you pretty much decided that you’ll deal with an upgrade when you’re darn good and ready and don’t want t

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Economic Tailspin Under Way

With the news coming out about some brain trust deciding to predict that gasoline could reach seven dollars a gallon in a couple of years, there’s already a domino effect of bad news spreading out from it. Financial types are worried about near

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Sentimental Escape?

At the very least, you can tell that the inmate who escaped from a Van Buren, Arkansas jail felt bad about escaping. At least, that’s the reason he gave for leaving behind a rose fashioned out of toilet paper. Police found this out when they r

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Supreme Court Finally Makes Righteous Decision

It’s been a long time coming but the Supreme Court has actually decided in favor of the Constitution’s second amendment. The ink is hardly dry on the decision and there’s lawsuits springing up all over the place. Enough so that I

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Cheese Wars

Not too long ago in what, to us, would be considered a parallel universe. A race of aliens visited the Earth and spent a lot of time studying the planet it’s people and most importantly, the foodstuffs they ate. Finally, they found what they

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