Food
Area restaurants serve up Thanksgiving day specials
Temecula food donations: Residents can drop off food donations at the Old Town Temecula farmers market from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Sixth and Old Town Front streets. Donations go to Temecula Valley People Helping People; go to www.tvphp.org.
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Food and Dining Briefs for Nov. 19
Ex-local heads Kiwi winery: Just over 10 years ago, San Diego State University graduate Quintin Quider was a local sea urchin diver. Today, he and his wife, Avril, own Wild Earth Winery in New Zealand. The Quiders established their vineyard in 1998 and produced their firs…
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Deciding which Thanksgiving dishes to make healthy
Serving a healthy Thanksgiving dinner doesn't have to mean giving up that pumpkin pie or those buttery sweet potatoes. But it does involve making some trade-offs.
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Save on Thanksgiving by balancing ease and cost
The sour economy has done wonders for improving home cooking skills, prompting many of us to cook from scratch to save a little scratch. But for a big holiday meal such as Thanksgiving, doing it yourself isn't always the most practical or cost-effective way to go.
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All the potato recipes you could ever want for Thanksgiving
If your Thanksgiving isn't complete without a side of potatoes, here's a collection of recipes from the traditional to the unusual.
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BITES AND PIECES: Sweet potato posers; sugar cream pies
Reader reminders: It's sweet potato time as we head into Thanksgiving. Reader Shirly Fletcher and I are still trying to find out whether sweet potato leaves are edible, and if so, how do you cook them?
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Now Serving: Big Tiny's Smoke'n BBQ
VISTA ---- Back in his high school days, Steven "Tiny" Satterlee acquired a taste for barbecue, working at his first job at the old Love's Barbecue in Oceanside.
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SAMPLER: Dudley's Famous Bakery
The dough is rising in more ways than one at Dudley's Famous Bakery in Santa Ysabel.
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Where's the beef? In land of cowboys, pig thrives
The president of the National Pork Producers Council ---- the person who represents the people who represent the nation's pigs ---- appeared recently before Congress to talk about sales in the swine flu era.
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Food and Dining Briefs for Nov. 12
Chipotle offers free food to Navy personnel: Chipotle will offer a free burrito, bowl or salad to any active-duty Navy personnel who show their IDs at the Sports Arena-area Chipotle restaurant (3680 Rosecrans Ave., San Diego) from 4 to 9 p.m. Monday, Nov. 19. Family membe…
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Fast pork tenderloin stroganoff from Gordon Ramsay
Gordon Ramsay suggests serving buttered pasta or steamed rice to accompany this simple stroganoff made with pork tenderloin from his new book, "Cooking for Friends."
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Bacon, eggs and pasta combine for easy dinner
When the basic ingredients are bacon, pasta, eggs and Parmesan cheese, it's hard to go wrong. This uncomplicated recipe for spaghetti carbonara from Lucinda Scala Quinn's "Mad Hungry: Feeding Men and Boys," comes together in minutes.
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Pork and kimchi together at last ---- in a pancake
Cecilia Hae-Jin Lee, author of "Quick & Easy Korean Cooking," suggests using cabbage kimchi for these pork-studded pancakes. The pancakes can be made smaller than directed, but she suggests making them larger to save time, then cutting them into wedges.
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Mushroom chutney livens up simple pork loin chops
Matt and Ted Lee like to smother their pan-fried pork loin chops in a quick mushroom chutney sweetened with prunes. The recipe, which comes from their new cookbook "The Lee Bros. Simple Fresh Southern," comes together in just 25 minutes.
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