Let's make some ricotta cheese

Sun Jan 2, 2011 11:40 AM EST

This recipe was requested by Cookin Mama. Once you make this you may never use store bought again. Ricotta

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food, italian, cooking, cheese, home-garden, cheese-making

Celebration herb bread

Sat Nov 27, 2010 12:54 PM EST

Ingredient: 1 ½ cup water ½ cup sour cream 1 ½ tsp. Yeast 1 tbs. Baking soda 1 tsp. crushed sage 1 tsp. crushed rosemary 1 tsp. Parsley ½ tsp. Ginger 2 tbs. Dill weed 3 tbs. Brown sugar 1 tsp. Salt

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food, cooking, bread, baking, home-garden, vine-chef

Holiday entertaining: the lowly grilled cheese.

Sun Nov 21, 2010 2:27 PM EST

With the holidays upon us and our time shortened by the many demands placed on us, finding suitable choices for informal get togethers and brunches can become a challenge. Sometimes, however, a new twist to an old standby can be just the answer you need.

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food, sandwiches, holidays, entertaining, home-garden

Coming features

Tue Nov 16, 2010 6:37 PM EST

As I stated in another article, this column will begin to concentrate on Christmas very soon; customs, food and assorted silliness. For anyone wishing a particular custom or recipe covered, please contact me through this column or at dougdemilo@yahoo.com .

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food, customs, christmas, recipes, home-garden, silliness, seasonal

Cinnamon Rolls (recipe with yeast)

Fri Oct 29, 2010 5:50 PM EDT

Here's the yeast bread version. Ingredients:

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home-garden

Cinnamon rolls (yeast free)

Thu Oct 28, 2010 6:37 PM EDT

I was asked by a friend for a cinnamon roll recipe. This first one uses no yeast, the second I will post later will be a classic yeast bread version. Enjoy! Ingredients: Rolls:

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sweets, home-garden, cinnamon-rolls

Pork Binagoongan

Sat Sep 11, 2010 7:15 PM EDT

The Philippino Creation Story

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food, philippines, home-garden

Peter Rabbit Tank Killer

Sat Sep 11, 2010 6:09 PM EDT

First of all, I would like to give credit where credit is due and thank our good friend Killfile for this one and the rolling laughter that it brought. The origin is with a WWII soldier with the German army by the name of Sven Hassel.

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humor

Shrimp-Stuffed Chimichangas

Fri Sep 10, 2010 12:34 AM EDT

I don’t know what the weather is like where you’re at but here in the Midwest the nights have been getting a bit chilly and I thought a little Tex-Mex might be just the ticket for a nice, hot comfort food.

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mexican, comfort-food, cooking, tex-mex, home-garden, chimichangas

Political parties we'd like to see

Wed Sep 8, 2010 12:20 PM EDT

Just when you think you’ve seen it all, someone new is throwing their hat in the ring and running for politics. It was funny for a while but then it started to get old. Let’s put the fun back into politic, or at least the campaigns.

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political, humor

Aragoste e granchi burrata : Burrata with lobster and crab

Mon Sep 6, 2010 11:20 PM EDT

This recipe is for the experienced cook although it can be prepared in any home kitchen. In it we have so many favorites; lobster, crab, salmon, cheese and even caviar and Champaign.

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caviar, crab, cooking, salmon, champaign, entertaining, lobster, home-garden, mozzarella

How to kidnap a child and get away with it

Seeded on Mon Sep 6, 2010 9:26 PM EDT (The Des Moines Register)

Two child welfare watchdogs and a lawyer for the Des Moines teen believe she has been dealt injustices each step of the way - by a sheriff's deputy who declined to return Elli when Lindsey reported her as kidnapped, by a social worker with a conflict of interests, by her two sist …

iowa, us-news, dhs, family-abduction, sherrifs-dept, iowa-courts, non-custodial-kidnapping

Happy Labor Day

Mon Sep 6, 2010 12:03 AM EDT

Although it started out as a celebration for organized labor following the bloody Pullman strike, Labor Day has come to mean so many different things to many people.

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holiday, labor-day

Stone soup

Sun Sep 5, 2010 8:27 PM EDT

From many of the recipes I’ve published here I may have given the impression that eating at our house is always a gourmet experience. That’s not the case nor has it ever been.

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cooking, soup, stories, home-garden, teaching-children-to-cook

Too big to jail (updated)

Sun Sep 5, 2010 5:48 PM EDT

It hasn’t been that long ago that the financial institutions of Wall Street, several insurance companies and two of the three major automobile companies were deemed “too big to fail”; too important to face the natural order of business or to be held accountable …

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hawaii, human-trafficking, courts, us-news, op-ed, too-big-to-fail

Burrata

Sat Sep 4, 2010 10:43 PM EDT

Burrata (Italian for buttery) is a delicate package of creamy curd encased in fresh mozzarella cheese. First made by the Bianchini family in 1920 on their farm and remained the delight of the townspeople only for thirty years.

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italian, cooking, cheese, entertaining, home-garden, mozzarella, burrata, sweet-curd

Friars Duck

Fri Sep 3, 2010 7:13 PM EDT

This is a very impressive main course that is fairly simple. If you do not wish to flambé during serving, briefly burn off the alcohol in the sauce in the pan prior to serving or by heating the sauce in advance and letting it set until cooled. Ingredients:

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duck, cooking, entertaining, home-garden, frangelico, flambe, paul-masson

Beef Roulade (Rouladen)

Fri Sep 3, 2010 12:39 PM EDT

This one is converted from German. Ingredients: 4 large thin slices beef 8 slices bacon Two pickle spears – kosher dills 1 tablespoon medium hot mustard 1 onion ¼ cup butter 1 bunch parsley Salt and pepper Flour for coating

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cooking, beef, german, home-garden, roulade, rolled-filled-beef

Mango Madness

Fri Sep 3, 2010 11:22 AM EDT

More than once I’ve been accused of being plum crazy but this time I’m going Mango. I’m going to center an entire festive meal around mangoes. And because this is a festive dinner, let’s start with a drink. Champagned Mangoes

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chicken, beef, mango, champaign, barbeque, home-garden, cookout

An update on the cookbook

Thu Sep 2, 2010 9:40 PM EDT

Well, the first phase is completed; the full narrative and many of the embedded recipes. I’m now typing the rest and formatting them for print. As it progressed a question occurred to me that I’m going to ask you (and the reason for the poll).

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cookbook

Sustainable survivability and the food chain: In the garden

Thu Sep 2, 2010 4:51 PM EDT

It was the dawn of a new day and the war raged on. The enemy was hatching its plans and its reserves when your flyers took them out. Sure, it sounds like a war, this gardening thing; and it is.

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organic, gardening, pests, home-garden, pesticide-free

Breakfast bake

Thu Sep 2, 2010 1:14 AM EDT

Ingredients: 2 English muffins – cubed about ½ inch pieces 8 oz. sausage (or 4 patties) – cooked and crumbled 4 eggs ½ cup half and half 8 oz. mild cheddar cheese – shredded 4 oz. hash brown potatoes (optional)

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eggs, cheese, breakfast, sausage, home-garden, english-muffins, cassarole

Sustainable survivability and the food chain: fruits and vegetables

Wed Sep 1, 2010 1:16 PM EDT

Most of us can remember growing up to the ever-present reminders of; “eat your vegetables...” If our parents had known then what we know now it might have been different.

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organic, gardening, pesticides, organic-gardening, home-garden, pesticide-alternatives, fruits-and-vegitables

Sustainable survivability and the food chain

Tue Aug 31, 2010 12:20 PM EDT

“Suddenly some of the steam begins to advance, and, peering through it, you discern Aunt Elizabeth, Ona's stepmother – Teta Elzbieta, as they call her – bearing aloft a great platter of stewed duck.

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health, meat, poultry, contamination, sustainable-survivability, the-food-chain, vegitables

Sourdough Molasses Whole Wheat Bread

Tue Aug 31, 2010 9:17 AM EDT

I thought some bread sounded good and thought I'd share. Ingredients:

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bread, baking, home-garden, whole-wheat, nutrician

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Comments & Feedback

You indeed could capture my soul with the above-listed recipes. I fool everyone into believing that I have an unusual flair for challenging the palate..but, YOU can truly create in reality what only the mind can pretend to see.
— SuckerFish

D DeMilo,

Just saw your comment on a thread about "Two Dangerous Ingredients in Everyday Products That Are Threatening Our Health". You look like a serious 'foodie'. I am, too.

I'd like to follow your postings - always interested in new foods. Friend request sent.

Also, where do you live that sand-filtered water is necessary? Won't a home charcoal filter work as well?
— Physicist-retired

D DeMilo,

Always enjoy your post. Will now try some of this cookin'

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— CCArm

Great comments and seeds... Keep up the good work!
Take care!
— McSpocky

Doug,

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Gary Ingram
— Gary Ingram

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Thanks for the great information.
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— Debbie-662088

As to the woman waiting 19 hours in the ER seems like a funny way to get more funding for the hospital. If it were me I would certainly write the head of the hospital and bill he/she for my time as well. Since when is their time worth more than the people coming to the ER?? Without them they wouldn't need the ER to begin with.
— demi44004