Tag: vegan
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Buttermilk Sweet Potato Ice Cream
At FRANK recently, we did an Americana menu, and needed to conceive an ice cream to go with our bourbon pecan pie. Chef Jennie suggested a sweet potato ice cream, but that just sounded too sweet to me. After all, pecan pie is very sweet, and to pair it with a super-sweet ice cream would…
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Guest Post: Do Food Shows Have Ethical Obligations?
My supremely cool fan Josh O’Connor, who interacts often on my blog posts, got to thinking about the issues of food waste, and the treatment of reality TV contestants with dietary restrictions, after one of my recent MasterChef recaps where many dozens of eggs were thrown in the trash, as well as shattering the plates…
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Cabernet Jelly
Have you ever had wine jelly? It’s divine. And couldn’t be easier to make. In fact, the hardest part of this recipe is sterilizing the jars and lids, which is easy. You should do that first, because the jelly comes together VERY quickly once you start. This recipe makes about 4 pints of jelly, or…
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Bourbon Fig Jam
You fall into one of two categories of humans. The first: someone who has to pay an outrageous amount of money to purchase figs at the grocery store when they’re in season…sometimes up to a dollar a fig. If you’re not that person, you fall into the other category. Either you or a neighbor has…
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Spicy Pickled Asparagus
I planted my asparagus patch in my garden about 4 years ago, and it has always been productive, but this year…I guess with the mild winter…it has been rabid. I’m pulling about a pound a day out of the garden, harvesting twice a day, and have been for more than a month! If you’ve never…
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Dandelion “Honey”
Either you love dandelions, or you hate them. If you hate them, it’s probably because you spend so much time trying to rid your lawn of them. If you love them, it’s because the big, soft, bright yellow blossoms and supremely blow-able puff balls bring you back to childhood. Or perhaps you’re one of the…
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How to Cook a Pumpkin and Turn it into Puree
In the fall, we’ve got pumpkins coming out our ears, and it just pains me to think that 95% of the pumpkins grown in this country are simply carved for Halloween and then tossed into the trash. Sometimes people buy 4 or 5, carve only one, and let the rest sit on their front porch…
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The Ethics of Eating Meat
This great debate about meat just keeps on coming, and I couldn’t be more pleased. I received a remarkable email from a fan who has been vegetarian since age 10, and I’d like to share a portion of it: “The ethics of meat eating have been on my mind since I spent five weeks in…
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Animals are Meat: A Follow Up
It’s now been about 24 hours since I posted the photo on Facebook of a free-ranging rooster from a chicken farm near Dallas that I was about to dispatch to become part of the menu at FRANK this weekend. Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined what a magical 24 hours it would…
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Ma’o Farms Vegetarian Curry
On a recent trip to Hawaii, Adrien from MasterChef and I had the chance to visit an amazing farm called Ma’o on the west coast of Oahu near Waianae in the Hawaiian homelands, where only native Hawaiians are permitted to live. This farm is run entirely by youth (mostly under the age of 25) and…