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By Ginger Marin I have always found mushrooms to be an interesting sort of comfort food. Here are two delightful recipes, great for lunch or dinner, as a complement or even as the main attraction. WILD MUSHROOM BISQUE 1 and 1/2 pounds portobello and cremini mushrooms 2 cups low salt chicken broth 1 potato, cubed 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 shallot, minced 1 leek, chopped 2 cloves garlic, minced 1/4 cup chopped parsley 1/4 cup cream Pepper to taste Trim the stems from the mushrooms and slice them up. Heat oil in a large skillet over high heat and add mushrooms. Cook, stirring frequently for about 2 minutes. When mushrooms are soft, reduce the heat to low and add the shallot, leek and garlic. Cook until vegetables are very soft about 20 minutes. Then turn the mixture into a medium saucepan and add the broth, potatoes and parsley. Bring to a boil, skim fat off surface and reduce heat. Add the cream and simmer for 30 minutes or longer. Then, using a blender or food pro...

By Elizabeth Randall This is the 17th edition of the weekly 30-minute menus for 2010. These are published on a weekly basis; I like to develop the weekly menus on Thursday or Friday, grocery shop on Saturday, and start the week's menus on Sunday. I hope you are enjoying Spring! It is just beautiful here in Atlanta so I want to be outside all of the time. The menus this week reflect this longing and are guaranteed to get you out of the kitchen and into the great outdoor pronto! The Slow Cooked Pulled Pork dinner on Tuesday will give you lots of pulled pork for sandwiches or salads during the week - lunch will be wonderful this week. You will find that I use several cooking methods, mix and match, to get dinner on the table quickly! (The ingredients in parenthesis show some of my quick-prep steps.) You can always substitute your favorite made-from-scratch recipes when you have more time. I hope you have a great week! Sunday: Chicken Parmesan (boneless, skinless chicke...

By KC Kudra Sirloin tip is a popular cut of steak and this is cut from a cow's sirloin, which is the part on the lower part of the ribs, close to the filet mignon. You will not find sirloin tip as tender as filet mignon but it is still a great cut of meat. It is possible to roast a sirloin tip in the oven. Choose a piece between two and five inches thick to feed two or three people. Obviously, a thicker piece takes longer to bake. Step by Step, Guide to Cooking the Steak Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F. Use a couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil to coat a skillet, then warm it on the stove over a moderately high heat. Sear the meat on the skillet all over, and then transfer it to a roasting pan. Mix a tablespoon of salt with a tablespoon of black pepper and half a tablespoon of garlic powder, then sprinkle this mixture all over the meat and stick a meat thermometer into it. Put the roasting pan in the oven and cook the steak for twenty to thirty minutes per po...

By Scott D Jenkins This article is about the contents of the famous secret restaurant recipes cookbook. The cookbook is actually 2 books, there is a volume 1 and 2. Ron Douglas is the person who found out this information and has been on Fox news, Good Morning America, and People Magazine with the books. The recipes are from many famous restaurant recipes. The recipes come from upper end restaurants as well as famous fast food restaurants. Some of the restaurants are Applebees, Red Lobster, Bob Evans, Ben and Jerry's, Olive garden, White Castle, Chillis, Outback steak house and more. Including such recipes as Kentucky fried chicken original recipe, Pizza hut pan pizza, Cracker barrel chicken salad, Tony Roma's original barbecue sauce, Red Lobster cheddar biscuits and Ruby Tuesdays sonoran cheese sauce to name a few. There are bonuses included such as lifetime access to secret recipes archive, Secret sauces cookbook, Good ole comfort foods cookbook, Grill master ...

When you are pondering the heights of good food, it's common to think of swanky downtown bars or bistros, or in upscale neighborhoods with terraced gardens and urbane clientele, perhaps in tony suburbs, with organic gardens out back, simple surroundings in the front of the house a wine list that goes out the door, and complex flavors. The last thing you think of, for good food, is a trailer in a parking lot, in an industrial neighborhood. And yet, this is where the culinary trail leads us. This trailer brings good food to many areas in and around Seattle, changing locations daily. In fact, the only way to know where exactly it will be on any day is to check their web site weekly, updates by Facebook and Twitter are also available. Also available on their site have their menu, which also changes weekly. The chef, Josh Henderson, a 1998 CIA graduate, has worked in restaurants and later, as a private chefs for photo shoots, where he learned to cook on the road. He brings...

By Janes Taylors Dining out for breakfast, lunch and dinner is becoming increasingly popular in both metropolitan and regional areas. There is something so relaxing about a cafe experience that Australians are just falling in love with. However, sometimes if you are new to an area and are unsure of what your local cafes have to offer, it can be a bit confusing to try and find a great little cafe haunt without running into disappointment after disappointment. Here is a simple guide to discovering ways to weed out the bad cafes and find a little gem that will always serve a great coffee and offer a place for you to escape. Is there anybody in there? The best place to start when looking for a great new little coffee shop or cafe is to keep an eye out for local spots that are busy. This is the first sign that the cafe is doing something right. If there is a line up for coffees, people are sitting at the tables and the staff look super busy, this will start to give you an id...

By Ramsey Lynn It does not matter if you have a small kitchen or a large kitchen, you can always use more space. Moreover, I am almost positive you have needed it in the present and wished there was something you could do about it! Instead of knocking yet another wall out to fit your new pots and pans into your kitchen, you could try something much easier and it has multi-uses - a kitchen storage trolley. Not only do a lot of people choose this option because it is cost efficient, but also because it really can retain more space in your kitchen for those items you cannot seem to fit anywhere else. These trolley's usually come in an array of sizes, styles and colors which is going to give you a lot of options when it comes to finding the perfect one for your kitchen and your home decor. The kitchen storage trolley is not only for storage underneath, but it can also be used as a chop block for the top piece as well which is going to give you a lot more counter space - ...