Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Saddam has done enough on his own to make the Middle East a more dangerous place than it was two weeks ago. His critics, in their justifiable outrage, should be careful not to feed, however inadvertently, the tendency that already exists on all sides in that region to demonize adversaries...
...about pot roast? The comprehensive 44-page index says "pot roast pasta." Huh? Yes, you make this pot roast that sounds delicious, but then you chop it all up and, with its juices, spoon it over a pound of penne or pappardelle. The old pot roast is now actually a stracotto. How modern can you get? You wouldn't want the mashed spuds if you've got the pasta, but let's check anyway. Three listings: the basic one, with sour cream; one that has a whole head of cooked garlic (yum!); and one that is half potatoes and half...
Just about every technique the home chef could need or aspire to need is contained in this pricey volume. It never occurred to me to make chocolate truffles at home, but the process looks easy in Willan's book. You whip up a genache by pouring a boiled combination of butter and cream over chopped chocolate. Chill that and then roll into little balls and chill some more. Melt some more chocolate, dip the genache balls in the warm chocolate and roll them in powdered cocoa...
...Mennonite families in Indiana are less daunting to the cholesterol conscious. But how can there be an Amish cookbook without shoofly pie, that gooey + concoction of molasses and brown sugar? And I still have never found a good recipe for the peach tart that Grandma Fultz used to make in late summer...
...places like Florida's Walt Disney World. "People are afraid," says Fred Wright, a Houston travel agent. "If travelers don't get the fares they want, they're not going." The jump in gas prices has forced Wright to change his own travel plans. He said he will make fewer trips to visit family members in Oklahoma City, a distance of 450 miles, because the price of a tank of gas has jumped from about $8 to $12. "It makes you think twice," he says...