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The Joy of Slow Cooked Scrambled Eggs

The Los Angeles Times Food Section featured an article about the often neglected joy of slowly cooking your scrambled eggs.  Indeed, scrambled eggs has always been seen as a quickie meal, so we really forget that eggs become a completely different meal when cooked slowly.  Like eggs served at your favorite expensive brunch restaurant.

"If you slow things down a bit, you can turn scrambled eggs into something spectacular: Cooked very slowly, and stirred constantly, scrambled eggs can be a dish that's creamy, rich and luxurious enough to serve as a first course at an elegant dinner.

Try it once, and you may never do the quick scramble again. Try it twice, and you'll never fret again about a brunch menu."

Lower the flame, slow down the scramble and transform eggs into pure bliss  |  via LA Times

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Top 10 Chicken Recipes

Visit Chefs.com to view their recent Top 10 Chicken recipes list.  There are some good standards there like Mediterranean Baked Chicken, Jerk Chicken, and Waldorf Chicken Salad.  Just wish they had photos of each dish.

Search All Internet Recipes Sites in One Click

Tired of searching for a recipe online by hopping from one recipe site to another?  Check out FoodieView.com, a new recipe search engine that will search all online recipes sites for the recipe you're looking for.

The site also helps narrow your search results by specific ingredients, type of dish and cuisine, and even by chef name.  It's a great tool that will help simplify your recipe searches.  FoodieView even includes a "recipe box" feature that lets you save your favorite recipes.

Visit FoodieView.com.  It's free, too!

Secrets of the Perfect Burger by Nancy Silverton

What better time to have a burger than on a Labor Day weekend barbeque.  Nancy Silverton of Campanile and La Brea Bakery talks about her love of "one of the great American dishes", and shares her recipe and preparation secrets in "The Perfect Burger".

What surprised me was her desired fat content of 20 - 28% fat for her burger.  I knew I always wanted a fattier burger than lean, but 28%?  Sounds delicious, if not a bit higher fat content than I ever would have thought to try.

Read more at "The Perfect Burger" via Los Angeles Times

Are You Using Enough Salt in Your Cooking?

Professional chef and writer, Emily Kaiser, raises some good points about when and how much salt to use when cooking on her website.  Her points certainly help us in using salt a bit more boldly in our cooking.  She quotes Thomas Keller of The French Laundry and Per Se, "Salt is the new olive oil."

Read "Chefs who salt early if not often" via The Food Section

Top 10 Ways to Improve Your Cooking

When you're a food lover and like spending time in the kitchen, you're probably always looking for ways to add to your skills.  And when you see articles like "Top 10 Ways to Improve Your Cooking", you just have to read it, don't you?  What's even better is that you find out there's some things on that list you do already.

See Fine Cooking Magazine's 10 cooking tips.

Christmas Cookie Recipes

From epicurious.com, see these Christmas cookie recipes from Gourmet magazine.  Plus, these holiday cookie recipes from '02 Gourmet magazine.

Visit Cooking Light's website for their cookie recipe countdown - a new cookie recipe a day until Christmas.

RECOMMENDED READING - Baking Illustrated: A Best Recipe Classic & Big Fat Cookies

Around the World with Cooking Schools

Billed as "The Ultimate Guide to Cooking Schools", join Travel and Leisure Magazine as they give you an international tour of cooking schools.  Plus see their list of top wine courses, professional culinary schools, hotel cooking programs, and more.

Tips for Buying a Turkey

Yesterday, I met a man who has been deep frying turkeys for over 40 years.  We talked alot about turkey and he gave me some great tips.  His first tip was to buy smaller turkey hens.  Hens, it seems, have bigger thighs, legs and breasts.  They are more tender because they are also younger and smaller, and it's best to buy ones that are 10 to 12 pounds.  If you need more meat, then buy two smaller turkey hens.  He said never to buy larger turkeys--like the ones on sale that are over 20 pounds.  Most likely these are older male turkeys that have less meat and skinnier drumsticks and thinner breasts.  Generally, these turkeys will be tougher.  That's why they're on sale.  I think I learned alot yesterday, and I'm on my way to buying a turkey hen today.

Delicious Chocolate Recipes from France

One of foodie readers' favorite blogs might be ChocolateandZucchini.com, and we love their Chocolate is My Friend archives. These aren't your usual chocolate dessert recipes, but ones that remind us of eating great desserts on our trip to France last year. If you're looking for a cultural twist on a chocolate recipe, then pick one here. Our favorite is the Apricot & Ginger Chocolate Cake. Even if you're not in the mood to cook, blog writer, Chotilde, is a joy to read.