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rice pilau/pilaoo

nobody@vox.com(Alaina) — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 00:00:13 -0400

Made my mother-in-law's recipe tonight. Anil's reaction: "Hey! It looks like it's supposed to!" and "The aunties never got it right."

rice pilau

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all kinds of Asian

nobody@vox.com(Alaina) — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 23:03:03 -0400

In our house, you'll find the masoor daal stored in the recycled kimchi container.

masoor daal + kimchi

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Japanese garlic peeling shortcuts

nobody@vox.com(Alaina) — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 13:14:42 -0400

How to remove the garlic skin quickly and easily. Part I.

How to remove the garlic skin quickly and easily. Part II.

These garlic peeling tricks are new to me. Is this a Japanese thing, or am I just not in the know?

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I love this recipe...

nobody@vox.com(Alaina) — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:31:51 -0400

I do a mean roast chicken (my recipe is pretty much the same as Karen's) and as Anil reminded me the other day, my Indian stir-fried okra ain't so bad either.

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recipe holder technique

nobody@vox.com(Alaina) — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 21:44:39 -0400

When not cooking from a cookbook, a cookbook stand won't do (ours isn't fat enough for most of our cookbooks anyway). We've started using a nice strong magnet to hang our recipes from the stove hood. Handy!

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