Ten Great Reasons to Go to Santa Fe, New Mexico

Ten Great Reasons to Go to Santa Fe, New Mexico
from Frommer's Travel Guides: The Best Trips Start Here! by Amy Zavatto
My last visit to Santa Fe was an amazing trip. So when the opportunity arose to head to New Mexico for a few days with my husband, we jumped at the chance.

Sukiyaki Beef

Sukiyaki Beef submitted by Shamsway
from Allrecipes Dinner Recipes
Strips of beef are stir-fried with onions, celery and mushrooms

The Best Cookbooks of 2006

The Best Cookbooks of 2006
from Gourmet Food - Cooking, Recipes, Reviews, Entertaining & Travel
2006 was a fantastic year for great cookbooks! There were books by some of the world's greatest chefs like Daniel Boulud, Marcus Samuelsson, and Michel Roux. We saw some wonderful...

Cookbooks|offered at Amazon.com

11 Ports That Your Kids Will Love

11 Ports That Your Kids Will Love
from Frommer's Travel Guides: The Best Trips Start Here! by Heidi Sarna
We parents like to pretend we're in charge. But let?s come clean already: Our kids rule the roost. Here are eleven of the world's best ports for keeping them happy.

Researchers found fibers knocked off a cloth act as bubble-formation in flutes

Researchers found fibers knocked off a cloth act as bubble-formation in flutes
from Megnut by meg@megnut.com (Meg Hourihan)
Researchers found that hollow cellulose fibers knocked off a cloth or paper towel used to dry a Champagne flute act as bubble-formation, or "nucleation," sites. "Glasses wiped with a towel show 'an excess of effervescence,'" so your bubbly will be even more bubbly.

Crème Brûlée Recipes - 5 Versions

Crème Brûlée Recipes - 5 Versions
from Gourmet Food - Cooking, Recipes, Reviews, Entertaining & Travel
Crème brûlée is a classic French dessert that has become very popular in recent years, showing up on the menu of most fine dining restaurants. The creamy custard contrasts nicely...

Tandoori Cooking Without the Tandoor

Tandoori Cooking Without the Tandoor
from GoArticles Food Category (Laliey Singh)
The use of a tandoor oven is very important in traditional North Indian cooking, and many breads and dishes were designed especially for these clay ovens. This includes many famous Punjabi and North I...

Basic Tomato Sauce

Basic Tomato Sauce
from Simply Recipes by Elise

A good tomato sauce is the foundation for so many wonderful dishes - pizza, pasta, chicken, and fish. Here is a recipe for a basic tomato sauce that starts with a soffritto of onions, carrots, and celery cooked in a little olive oil, to which garlic, tomatoes and seasonings are added. Simple and delicious. The sauce can be dressed up with mushrooms, sausage, olives, wine, and all manner of vegetables. For a tantalizing version of a tomato-based sauce check out Sean's sauce over at Hedonia. What's your favorite tomato sauce recipe?

Carli Olive Oil( )In Italy, Carli Olive Oil has always only been sold direct from the factory to the consumer. A fleet of over 100 trucks assures prompt direct delivery to more than 700,000 families, over 120,000 of which have been loyal customers for two or more generations. Why are Italians so religious about their....

Carli Olive Oil from igourmet.com

Wine Advisor FoodLetter: Bean soup

Wine Advisor FoodLetter: Bean soup
from WineLoversPage.com
If you've got some cooked beans around, you can do the rest in an hour and get a filling soup that tastes like you worked on it all day.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!
from Chef Michele's Adventures: Celebrity Chef Cookbook Reviews by Michele
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Years! We were quite busy with out of town guests and then my huband and all three kids got sick so I haven't been on-line much lately. We were truly blessed this Christmas and as always enjoyed celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior.I got a new cook book yesterday and wanted to share a review with you.
Years ago I had picked up an old copy of The Joy of Cooking at a second hand bookstore. It was (and still is) my very favorite cookbook. Dispite the lack of color photographs that all the new cookbooks seem to have in abundance, the wealth of knowledge contained in this book is beyond measure. If I could choose only one cookbook to own it would be this one. In it you will find recipes for everything from simple things like boiled eggs to very elaborate dishes, menues, cooking techniques and ingredient and nutrition information.My original copy was ruined when a storage closet in our old apartment was flooded by the hot water heater. So I was very excited to see this new 75th Anniversary Edition available. It is just as good as my old copy... in fact better! It contains over 4500 recipes and is an invaluable tool for anyone who enjoys cooking.

Vacations That Click: Zooming in on Photography Tours

Vacations That Click: Zooming in on Photography Tours
from Frommer's Travel Guides: The Best Trips Start Here! by Charis Atlas Heelan
With the new year here, a new raft of tours has been announced and while you ponder which destination sounds the most appealing, imagine yourself standing on top of that mountain, or next to that rare animal, with your camera well-positioned and ready to shoot.

Caramelized Onion Quiche

Caramelized Onion Quiche
from Simply Recipes by Elise

Ever wake up in the morning with a craving for a specific food? This morning it was quiche, specifically an onion quiche. To my dear father who turned up his nose at this masterpiece, mumbling something about real men, I say, "phooey". Kudos to my brother Ed, who almost made up for dad's transgression, by saying just "damn good" after inhaling a piece at dinner.

What Wine Goes With What Food?

What Wine Goes With What Food?
(Morgan Slater)
We've all heard the rules: red wine with meat, white with fish or fowl. But just as with all rules, this one was made to be broken. There's a growing recognition that there's both more and less to...

All To Keep You Drinking

ALL TO KEEP YOU DRINKING
(Alison White)
Ensuring the necessary quantity of water to keep your organism working properly should be every person's strong preoccupation, for it is hydrati...

Meet the King of All Cheeses - The Brie Cheese

Meet the King of All Cheeses - The Brie Cheese
(Lee Dobbins)
If you are a true blue cheese-lover through and through, then just saying 'brie' would excite your taste buds. Perhaps you would even salivate. Brie cheese, with its rich history to back it up and a...

Bring the Payne's in Memphis

Bring the Payne's in Memphis

Even in a Southern city like Memphis, there's plenty of variation in the barbeque experience. There are joints for northern rubes, high-class barbeque restaurants, chain barbeque spots and pretty much anything else you can imagine. Clear through all the clutter, though, and you'll soon be craving something else: an authentic barbeque experience. To find that in Memphis, you'll have to go to Payne's.
Payne's is down-home in a way that's hard to even comprehend. It's inside a former garage, and the interior has a few tables, though the huge garage doors remain. They make ribs and smoked sausage, but the real treat is the chopped pork sandwich for $3. It's hand-chopped to order, then piled atop a tiny WonderBread bun with slaw. The slaw is spicy and much closer to relish as most northerners know it. Payne's has no knives, forks, dishes, or straws: only sporks and paper plates. The 'cue itself is tender and on the sweet side, though plenty smoky. However you attempt to eat it, it should be considered one of the best BBQ sandwiches in the nation.
Payne's BBQ [MemhpisDining.com]
[Alexander Basek]
[Photo: Cerifiedfool/Flickr]
Previously: Mustache Maintenance in Memphis, The Elvis Suite, Memphis in May, Memphis and Nashville Music Tourism, NYC Cracks Fattest Top Ten

Meatloaf Stuffed with Spinach and Red Bell Pepper

Meatloaf Stuffed with Spinach and Red Bell Pepper
from Simply Recipes by Elise

We love meat loaf in this house. My father found this recipe in an old issue of Bon Appetit and made it it the other day. It was really quite good, and pretty too (as pretty as meatloaf can be) with the stuffing of red bell peppers and green spinach.

NYC Tourists Get More Neurotic

NYC Tourists Get More Neurotic


Perhaps trying in a meta way to turn NYC tourists into your dime-a-dozen NYC neurotic , the city's tourists have recently been under a barrage of criticisms and nagging from the overbearing press about what not to do. The most recent example comes from AM New York whose front page featured the html-unfriendly hed: They [heart] NYC. Turns out NY has seen more tourists this year than ever before, an approx. 44 million.
Among the exhortations given in the ensuing coverage is the one found above by Chuck Bennett. This, however, is but the most recent onslaught of to don'ts offered. Recently, the NYT's Seth Kugel warned tourists where not to go while Lonely Planet recently advised tourists to mask their maps in classic New York books like Catcher in the Rye.
It's only a matter of time before true New Yorkers will be approached on the street by panicky tourists asking, "Did I do this right? What about this? Is my bag to big? Do my shoes make me look like a tourist?" and on that day, any difference we fancied distinguished us from them, will have been thoroughly and irrevocably erased.
Previously: London in NY, Queen's Hideaway: Wha' Happened?, Pic of the Day: Red Hook Farm, A Royale Pain

Key West -- Island Bike Adventure!

Key West -- Island Bike Adventure!
(D. O. Christian Rieger)
Key West -- Island Bike Adventure! Bring your t-shirt, shorts, sneakers and a camera . . . and take home memories! The Bike Tour of Key West, www.keywestbikeecotour.com, takes guests into the Key W...

What are ten ingredients to always have on hand to cook a good meal?

What are ten ingredients to always have on hand to cook a good meal?
from Megnut by meg@megnut.com (Meg Hourihan)
What are ten (give or take a few) ingredients that are handy to always have on hand to cook a good meal? Looking for suggestions over at Ask.Metafilter.com.