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Addicted to the Food Network? Is your kitchen overrun with cookbooks? Do you often indulge in restaurant meals and proclaim that you can make it better? Foodies of the world, unite here at the Food Blog! If you want to learn the secret recipes of the world's best chefs (Martha Stewart's famous honey soy-glazed chicken, anyone?!), the Food Blog helps you discover dazzling tricks and tips to making fabulous entrees, desserts and pastries.

Here, you will find mouth-watering delicacies, International meal ideas, and simple home-cooking for you, the kitchen-preneur! Don't have the time to prepare fancy dinners? No worries–the Food Blog can help you with tons of short and easy recipes for even the most amateur chef. Looking for a wide assortment of traditional recipes and cooking techniques on soups, salads, breads, dips, and sides? You've come to the right place to satisfy your appetite for culinary inspiration. Need an interesting way to prepare special occasion dishes? Click in and get cookin'!

From chicken casserole and flaky croissants to curried weiners, honey barbecue chicken wings, even caviar-tipped Russian eggs, The Food Blog has it!

Fresh Pasta with Spicy Tomato Sauce
Lounging around on a hot Saturday afternoon, you don't want to think too hard about dinner. You read your book, you cheat and start t...

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Red, White and Blue
Pledge allegiance to this month's banner, designed by our brilliantly patriotic illustrator, Lindy. Thanks to her and thanks to Justin for inst...

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Blueberry Frozen Yogurt
"I found my thrill, on Blueberry Hill..." While I'm pretty sure this song isn't about blueberries, every time I hear it all that comes to mind is a huge moun...

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Fourth of July Recipes
I hope all of you have a great holiday weekend. I thought it might be helpful to dust off a few Fourth of July-friendly recipes from the arc...

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Molly Stevens Makes Porchetta
I was delighted to see that Molly Stevens, author of one of my favorite cookbooks ever, All About Braising, left a comment on my Porchetta post yesterday. "Glad you made it to Porchetta. It is truly amazing. I got so inspired on my last visit that I endeavo...

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Porchetta
My Twitter followers are a fervent bunch. A few weeks ago, I mentioned that I was in the East Village, getting a hairc...

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Easy Grilled Salmon
Well, summer has finally come to Sacramento. After weeks of remarkably pleasant 80-degree weather, the hundreds have arrived. Yesterday 108?...

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Easy Biscuits
It's a good thing to know how to make biscuits. I mean, at what point of the day would you say "no" to a hot buttermilk biscuit, ...

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Watermelon Salad
Have you been watching "The Next Food Network Star"? It's a good show: an honest look at what it takes to become an on-air food p...

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Taco Crawl in Fruitvale
For several years now I'd been hearing about the taco trucks of Fruitvale, a section of Oakland known for having a large Latino population. After reading endless reports on Yelp, Chowhound and an article in the East Bay Express by John Birdsall, I was ready to hit the road, or rather, International Boulevard, where there's a high concentration of taco trucks. I didn...

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