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Best Burgers in Washington DC
April 13, 2011A burger is a poor man's steak. An excellent classic burger needs a decent quality ground beef with adequate fat marbling cooked to perfection -- served between some sort of soft white buns.
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Counting Calories in Momo
February 3, 2011Generally momos, curried dumplings, are steamed and consumed during cold winter evenings in Nepal. Hot steam used for cooking momos keeps the rooms warm between the batches (pakh) of momos, which also warms the body of the eater, in turn giving warmth to their hungry souls. Momos are steamed...
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Grand Marnier Tiramisu
January 8, 2011Tiramisu contains coffee, sugar and alcohol. Everything needed for an afternoon "pull me up", which is the word Tiramisù in Italian. Tiramisu usually consist of ladyfingers (called savoiardi in Italian) cookies soaked in coffee with mascarpone cheese frosting infused with alcohol. Some choose to...
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Avocado Browning
December 20, 2010I am afraid of avocados turning into brown mush. I love guacamole but don’t dare to make it for everyday use because, unless you eat it all, it soon turns into bad, unappetizing brownish chunks. Avocado Avocadoes...
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Cilantrofic fish tacos
September 13, 2010I usually don't make recipes that I see on the TV. After watching Alton Brown making fish taco (recipe here) in Good Eats, I jumped right in to construct similar fish tacos made from pan grilled fish doused in cilantro. I love cilantro and usually don't like authentic fried fish in fish tacos....
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How to save a dime by roasting tomatoes in an oven?
September 15, 2010Usually tomato vendors in any local farmers market sell slightly damaged organic tomatoes at a huge discount. Most of these tomatoes have small bruises due to transportation. I love getting these tomatoes for my sauce or to use as a base ingredient in my future dishes. Since I can’t store them...
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Pomelo salad (Bhogatee Sadeko)
December 2, 2010One of my favorite salads growing up in Nepal was Pomelo (Chinese grapefruit) salad made in a similar style as coleslaw. However, instead of a mayonnaise-based dressing, which is used in coleslaw, pomelo salad has a yogurt based dressing. The pomelo salad is known as Bhogatee Sadeko in Nepali,...
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Gourmet chicken alfredo – valentine’s dinner for one
February 15, 2010Instead of regular souvenirs or chocolates, my sister B'dee and cousin P'gya got this foodie a bag of Pasta from Europe. They brought me garganelli pasta, a rolled tube shaped pasta with resemblance to penne pasta. Garganelli pasta were naturally flavored with beet root, spinach, blueberry,...
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Heirloom tomato salad
August 16, 2010Tomatoes are one of my favorite fruits/vegetables*. In recent years, heirloom tomatoes have become popular in farmers market. Heirloom tomatoes are open pollinated variety (cultivar). Open pollination means that the tomatoes are pollinated using natural pollination by insects, birds, or wind, and...
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