I Am... Potato Pizza Recipe
I visited Rome for the first time last November. As excited as I was to see the Colosseum, Pantheon and Sistine Chapel, I was even more excited to try real Roman food. We had sit-down dinners every night, but I especially loved the Roman street food. I have a thing for hand held food and Rome has an abundance of it: fragrant, hot roasted chestnuts; intensely flavoured, smooth gelato; and crispy pizza à taglio.
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I Am... Shrimp Taquito Recipe
I don't think I know anyone who doesn't like deep-fried food. There's something about the crunch of something that's been deep-fried that makes it so satisfying. These shrimp taquitos have both an incredibly satisfying crunch and a light freshness-imagine your favourite shrimp taco wrapped up in a freshly fried rolled tortilla chip.
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I Am... Pulled Pork Pancakes with Bourbon Syrup Recipe
I have an obsession with breakfasts foods, and by extension, brunch. I love eating breakfast foods anytime and all the time. This makes brunch an especially exciting meal for me–seeing people devour breakfast foods after 12 pm makes me happy.
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I Am... Pulled Pork Recipe
This has got to be the easiest pulled pork recipe ever. Honestly, it's no fuss, no muss, it's almost not even a recipe at all. I wasn't really a big fan of pulled pork until I tasted this one. It's pillowy soft and melts in your mouth like delicious pork cotton candy. Most of the pulled porks I've tried are drenched in sauce, which, while good, kind of masks the flavour of the pork. This pulled pork recipe uses only sugar and salt, so the end result is a touch salty, a tiny bit sweet and oh-so-porky.
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I Am... Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
I love bacon and I love chocolate chip cookies. With this cookie, two of my favourite childhood treats are combined into one salty, chocolate-y cookie for the ultimate indulgence. If these cookies existed when I was a kid I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have eaten anything else.
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I Am... Seaweed Salad Recipe
I was out having dinner with my friend Minna tonight at a local hipster sushi bar when I suddenly had a intense craving for raw, crunchy seaweed. There was a definite need for something spicy, salty, and seaweed-y between our copious orders of raw fish and beer. Unfortunately for me, nothing on the menu fit the bill, so as soon as dinner was over, I got to work on satisfying my primal seavegetable urges.
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I Am... Tarte Flambée Recipe
Are you ever in a restaurant, deep in scintillating conversation when a fabulous plate of food passes by on the way to another table? Suddenly, you forget just what fascinating tidbit your table-mate was telling you. They might have been talking about their brand-new wiener dog puppy or how they just got tickets to a sold out show, but all you can think about is the plate. Thoughts fly through your head: what is it, where is it, I want it!
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I Am... Flat-Iron Carne Asada Recipe
Growing up, I didn't eat a lot of Mexican food. In our house it was all Chinese food all the time thanks to the unadventurous palate of my father. My dad's the kind of man who'll insist on eating Chinese food whether he's at home or on vacation where the only option for Chinese food consists of orange chicken and chop suey.
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I Am... No-Knead Pizza Dough Recipe
If you've tasted the breads at Sullivan Street Bakery, I think you'd agree: Jim Lahey is a genius. And the best part is that he isn't one of those crazy secret-keeping geniuses. In fact, I'd say he's pretty much the opposite of secret: his no-knead bread making method is super well known and documented. In 2006, an article was published in the New York Times about the no-knead bread method and it took the bread baking world by storm. Usually no-kneading means no bread, but not with Lahey's recipe.
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I Am... Bacon Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Recipe
I heart oatmeal raisin cookies. They're sweet, chewy and oat-y enough to feel a bit healthy. But, my love for oatmeal raisin cookies isn't steadfast; I'm a picky oatmeal raisin cookie lover. I strongly dislike crunchy oatmeal cookies. For me, it's a soft oatmeal cookie or no cookie at all.
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I Am... Skillet Fried Chicken Recipe
We moved to Vancouver from Edmonton when I was eight years old. My mom was tired of the endless snowy winters and mosquito-filled summers. I didn't want to move—my whole life was in Edmonton. My best friend and I spent the first part of the summer before I left practicing letter writing. I was worried I wouldn't have any friends. My parents tried to convince us kids that we'd make lots of new friends in school—at the very least we'd have our cousins.
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I Am... Rigatoni and Cheese Recipe
I'm always on the lookout for great mac and cheese variations. There are so many combos you can make with pasta and cheese and I love them all. Luckily Mike loves them too. It's funny because before me he used to be allergic to cheese–not crazy stop breathing allergic, but definitely break out in hives allergic. After we started going out his allergy disappeared and I like to think that I was the cure. Whatever the reason, I'm happy that we're a cheese eating family.
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