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Warning: this recipe requires up to ten years commitment.

Sunflower Food Galore
Being allowed to leave orange peel lying on your radiator for days is a great start to a recipe
Chan pei 陳皮 directly translates as 'ancient old skin', it is basically dried mandarin or tangerine peel. The reason why is is called ancient old skin is because it is not freshly dried peel it must be aged for at least a year before used. Towards the end the year to spring, many people will eat a lot mandarins, tangerines or satsuma. Have you ever thought of using the peel instead of chucking it into the bin. Well you can make chan pei for nothing and save you a few pennies.
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Did You Hear The One About The Apples In A Bathrobe?

slovak cooking
Those old slovak food jokes are always the best
A young lady rings the bell to her neighbor’s apartment. “Excuse me, may I offer you some apples in a bathrobe?” “Of course”, the voice from inside says, “but feel free to offer them even if you are not wearing anything at all.” That was an old joke I still remember from my childhood. It’s a little play on words: apples in a bathrobe (jablká v ?upane) is a sweet Czech and Slovak treat. It’s apples stuffed with a nut filling, wrapped in a puff pastry “bathrobe”, and baked in the oven until soft. I’ve actually never had this snack prior to today, but I’ve been wanting to try it for a long time. So I baked a batch. I made it following an excellent video instructions posted on akosatorobi.sk (“how it’s made”.sk). Here is the recipe:
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Get Your Freekeh On

Syrian Foodie
Freekeh (فريكة roughly translated, Rubbed) is a type of wheat grain common in the Levant, Egypt, Turkey and parts of North Africa. Freekeh grains have a distinct nutty smokey flavour due to the preparation method. Traditionally freekeh is cooked as pilaf or soup but it is a versatile ingredients and can be utilised in numerous ways from salads to cereal bars.
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Whitechapel Gallery Dining Room

the grumbling gourmet

Art for food’s sake… perfect

As a concept, museum or gallery cafes are often better than they are in actuality. For every South London Gallery Cafe, serving reasonably priced and freshly prepared quality options, there's two or three like the National Gallery Cafe or the British Museum Court Restaurant; overpriced, predatory canteens sucking desperate funds from their patrons, the visual arts version of the over priced popcorn you get at the cinema.
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Cafeteria Tray Threat: The Evidence Stacks Up

slashfood.com
This post contains the immortal phrase "enabling trays". Apparently these inanimate plastic food carrying devices are now being hailed responsible for those additional fresher pounds.
A portrait of Henry VIII hangs in the Tudor dining hall at Oxford's Christ Church College (a stand-in for Hogwarts in the Harry Potter films, by the way), which the famously large King founded in 1532. We may never know why Henry had so many wives, but his obesity is almost surely the result of never having to get up from the dining table. While university students don't have servants to feed them, they do have cafeteria trays, which allow them to pile on the pork as they proceed to pork up. But The Washington Post reports that Virginia Tech, whose new dining hall is filled with gourmet treats like Belgian waffles and brick-oven pizza, has now banned the enabling trays in an effort to cut down on the eyes-bigger-than-the-stomach syndrome.
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Food Terrorists Bag Ronald McDonald

mediaite.com
Where with the food terrorists strike next? We can only pray the family of Colonel Harland Sanders are safe
Aaaaaaaaaaand this is the weirdest thing you’ll see all day. A group in Finland calling themselves the “Food Liberation Army” has apparently stolen a statue of Ronald McDonald from a local McDonalds and made a series of “terrorist” videos in which they blindfold and then behead it, all in the name of “better quality and ethicality of consumption.” On Fox News, Megyn Kelly attempted to be outraged by them imitating videos of people actually being killed but, in the end, just embraced how utterly and amazingly absurd it is.
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Soho (Hong Kong) Loses Its Charms

tomeatsjencooks
Demonstrating that Soho can and will let you down in every city
I should theoretically really like Commune Lab as it nearly does a lot of things right but I somehow left it feeling poor, hungry and vowing to avoid Soho for a while. To look on the positive side: Uno, it’s set in working kitchen which during the day makes bread for various kitchens around Hong Kong (including Lily & Bloom and Shore etc.) so your setting is, excitingly, the industrial background of kitchen production. Due, it is intended as a “test kitchen” where the Posto Publico’s chef – AJ Bellarosa – gets to try out new things and experiment with sous vide machines
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Some Honey With Your Cheese Tacos, Madam?

The Mobile Locavore
Honey is great with desserts. It's great on toast. I like it in tea and coffee. But what about with dinner, with lunch, with a high protein breakfast? I've been wanting to get a little more sweetness together with some of my savory foods. Of course I could have started out to try out a whole bunch of new recipes. What about incorporating honey into a western sandwich? What about popping some honey in the chicken stir-fry? Hey, would honey go good with my cheese-drizzled tacos and salsa?
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The Fat Lady Who Sings Says It's All Over

contactmusic
Some peeps just need their soul food more than others
Aretha Franklin has been forced to give up her beloved junk food in a bid to get healthy following her minor surgery in December (10), and she is determined to keep her new slimmed-down figure. The Queen of Soul worried fans when she scrapped a series of end-of-year shows in 2010 to recover from sickness. She has refused to reveal the nature of her ailment, but recently dismissed reports she has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. She missed out on an all-female tribute to herself at the Grammys on Sunday (13 Feb), but appeared by video link sporting a much slimmer figure.
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Rafute and Rafute Rillettes: Fun with Okinawan pork belly

Just Hungry
Food obsessions can come out nowhere. This one, which has taken over my recipe experiments for the past couple of weeks, came from my longtime online friend, santos of The Scent of Green Bananas. She tweeted one day a few weeks ago something about makiing rillettes from Chinese braised pork belly and for some reason that just caught hold of my imagination.
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