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Memorable Meals, Autumn-Winter, 2009. Part 3

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Two blog posts in one day.  Wow. Don’t worry I won’t make a habit of it.   I  just wanted to get this done so I could move on to 2010 posts (coming soon in 2011).  I really wanted to include some family meals as part of Memorable Meals, 2009 and fortunately we squeezed in some quality time with the fam this past Christmas so I got some extremely notable meals in just under the wire.  And sure enough, as is normal with my family there was much cooking, eating and discussing the finer points of food, politics and culture.  I won’t bore you with the culture and politics stuff (I have to admit, we spent a little too much time talking about Tiger Woods).  I’ll just bore you with the food stuff.  Click on the photo below for the full story (of what’s going on in that picture.)

Cheryl and Dad: two pros at hot pot.

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Memorable Meals, Autumn-Winter, 2009. Part 2

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As, promised and in record time (as far as blogging turn around time for me) I give you the second installment of Memorable Meals (late 2009).  This one is focused on a few delicious dinners that we cooked at home for ourselves and our friends.  As with any middle chapter in a trilogy, you’ll find this segment a bit more profound and complex wherein the hero’s journey takes  perhaps a dark and unexpected twist.  Or not.  We just had a lot of fun and ate some really good food. Click on the cheesecake below for the full skinny – or in this case, the full fat.

Pumpkin Cheesecake from Juniors.

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Memorable Meals, Autumn-Winter, 2009. Part 1

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Yes, yet another long lag since my last post.  But fear not.  Though I’ve neglected this blog, I haven’t neglected dear food or my enjoyment of it.  Please enjoy this first installment in a three part (because really, aren’t the best stories  told in trilogies?) account of a few of the more notable meals and food inspired gatherings of the latter part of 2009.  Click on the snouts below for the full story of a delicious weekend in Pennsylvania.

oink?

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Turkey = Lamb

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And I’m back.  It’s been a long  but eventful 3 months but I’ve returned and am writing my first post as a married man.  I feel different.  Or it could be that I don’t have to suck in my gut anymore.  Now that I’m hitched I can totally let myself go! Awesome.  Something else that’s awesome: Turkey – the country.  Shef and I were fortunate enough to spend our honeymoon there and fortunately for you, I’ve decided to write about it.  So without further ado, I present to you…

Turkey, a country where Europe becomes Asia and East meets West is simply put – and I can say this having spent three whole weeks there on a honeymoon – a beautiful and captivating country, rich with culture and history… and kebabs, lots of kebabs.

Click on the roasting lamb for the full story.

Horizontally mounted roasted lamb. That is some meat!

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Summer’s here and that means ribs!

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… although I’m actually a fan of eating ribs at all times of the year.  I just needed to give this post a title.

Wassup y’all?!  C Ting is back.   Sorry for the long hiatus.  I was  working quite hard (yes believe it) on a project that frankly took a lot of time and mental energy so I just didn’t have much to give back to you-food. Sorry, you-food and all you three readers of the site.  It’s been too long.  But you can thank the unemployment gods for kicking in and making sure I have ample time to to get back to basics: cooking, eating and thinking about food. You-food.net is back in effect!

Alright  the weekend before last I went to the Big Apple BBQ Festival with the intention of gorging myself on delicious BBQ from pitmasters around the country where bbq reigns supreme. Instead, I was met with ridiculous, meandering lines of people waiting for God knows how long for what were probably delicious but undoubtedly skimpy servings of bbq meat. Perhaps it was worth it and the meat was truly delicious.  I will never know because I didn’t have the patience to wait in line as the rain came pouring down.  But all the smells of sizzling, smoked meat and seeing people nosh on pulled pork, brisquet, sausages and ribs did put me in the mood to bbq some of my own ribs.  So I hight-tailed it to Chinatown, fortified myself with some tasty dumplings (I hadn’t eaten – remember, I was expecting to be filled my stomach with bbq) and went to the Chinese butchers hop where I bought myself a nice two pound rack of pork spare ribs. A couple days later, I went up to the rooftop deck of our apt building and cooked me up some ribs! And then I ate ’em.  Click on the photo below for the full story and recipe.

Eating is believing.

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