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Lamb and Barley Soup with a Parmesian Portabello Snack

First thing's first: I can't believe I forgot to take a picture of this wonderful stew when it was finished. Unfortunately, I can't show you the finished product, so we'll consider the cooking pictures...

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Vienna Coffee Company: Espresso Bella

Here's another review of a flavor of Vienna Coffee Company coffee, the one that I just finished enjoying several times in the mornings and afternoons: Espresso Bella.When I visited the company a couple...

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(Chinese) Beef Cubes and Mushrooms with Red Wine Sauce and Homemade Pasta

I think of this recipe as being a bit inspired since I had a picture in my head from the outset and then did two things differently from that grand vision.I wanted to make a beef and mushroom stir-fry...

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Coffee Review: Vienna Coffee Company's Thunderhead Espresso

I haven't yet met Jaimie, the owner of Thunderhead Perk in Townsend, TN, but hopefully I will be meeting her this week. My wife adores her and claims her scones are the best. Vienna Coffee Company in...

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Monster Burritos for Fourteen!

One of my friends just turned 30, and so his wife and several of his friends decided it would be fitting to have a little birthday party for him (at an indoor water park, no less!) last Friday. My wife...

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A Chinese Invention Dish: Steak and Eggs with Homemade Pasta

I'm almost sorry for posting yet another Chinese dish, but like I was doing earlier with the bread making, I'm completely into making these dishes again. I've made JB's beef and potatoes a couple of...

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Product Review: The Fresh Market's Double-Cream White Chocolate Milk

Behold the beauty of The Fresh Market's Double-Cream White Chocolate Milk, one of the greatest ideas to ever hit the market, if you ask me.This stuff is naughty good. It's decadence in a glass. You'll...

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Black Tea with Caramel Syrup

I'm still busy, so I still have to make short posts. I've made some wonderfully good stuff, but I have pretty much no time to talk about it. Let me talk about something I've been making a lot of that's...

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Cafe du Monde French Roast With Chicory Latte

I've been gone, working like crazy, for a couple of weeks, left off with a bunch ofarticles aboutbeverages, and I come back with another article about something good to drink? Yes. That's me. Ask my...

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Sweet Potato and Apple Cream Soup: An Unlikely Thanksgiving Post

Of all of the things that I could talk about on Thanksgiving, like poultry of some kind (turkey, goose -- I really wanted to make goose -- chicken (capon, anyone?), or duck -- I really, really wanted...

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Pork Cubes with Garlic, Mushrooms, and Carrots over Shaved Noodles

This was another dish that my wife thought was just about perfect. My opinion is that the reason is centered in that I'm getting better at making the noodles.The trick, really, is not overdoing the...

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Homemade noodles featuring fresh squash juice

Homemade noodles featuring fresh squash juice? Squash juice? What is this, Harry Potter all of a sudden? Do I have house elves working in my kitchen? Seriously? Squash juice? And isn't it pumpkin...

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Knoxville Gourmet Food Examiner

I've recently been named the Knoxville Gourmet Food Examiner, writing for Examiner.com. Click on the link on my title to check out my profile, which contains links to all of my articles, to see what...

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Fresh squeezed juices from the Fresh Market, a product review

I love beverages. I particularly love them when they're sweet, and especially even more so when they're good for me too. Hence, I go to The Fresh Market way too often to buy their freshly squeezed...

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Ginger root! Uses and ideas

I love ginger root (it's actually a rhizome, not a root, but this isn't that kind of blog). It's got to be one of my very favorite spices. I use it almost indiscriminately... well, okay, that's not...

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Thunderhead Perk in Townsend, TN

"Far away from the daily grind," they say. Indeed. This place is magnificent. A tiny treasure that's all too easy to overlook just outside the lovely Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Townsend,...

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Gourmet food articles I've written for Examiner.com

As you know, I've taken up the gauntlet as the Knoxville Gourmet Food Examiner, writing for Examiner.com. Since I'm trying to put nearly all original content on there, check out what I've had to say....

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More great stuff on Examiner.com from the Knoxville Gourmet Food Examiner (ME!)

So there's a project going on over at Examiner.com where we're supposed to try to write articles about New Year's Resolutions. At first I thought: "damn, I too bad I'm not in fitness/health/exercise;...

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Perfect chocolate chip cookies, great recipes, and some restaurants......

Granted, I'm not doing such a great job of keeping up with writing on this blog like I used to. It's difficult to come up with great material on one topic in two places, and frankly, I get paid to...

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A new direction -- my relationship and experience of food

So I'm still writing recipes and food whatnot for Examiner.com as the Knoxville Gourmet Food Examiner, and that takes up enough of my writing-specifics-about-food time to where I have little left for...

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Experiments with coconut and bacon, but not at the same time

We've kind of run out of things here and really need a trip to the store. That's led to some rather creative dishes over the weekend that were really pretty good, to be honest.First, since the only...

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Working the social media thing and not getting it

So... I joined Twitter tonight, and as I'm sure about 80 million people have said before me,I don't get Twitter;I don't know how to work Twitter.I think I know my username (@JLindsayCooks - because...

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Surprise lunch with my wife at Hot Rod's 50's Diner

I love when errands turn into me getting awesome lunch.I volunteered to ride around a little with my wife this afternoon while she ran some errands (actually, I ended up driving). We did that and then...

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Writing about food for Examiner.com 1 -- How it works

So, I haven't been too faithful about keeping this up. I find that writing about food but not talking much about the food itself is unsatisfying and kind of pointless. Still, as long as I'm writing...

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Writing about food for Examiner.com 2 - Does it pay?

This is Part Two of a multi-part series of posts about writing about food and drink on Examiner.com, where I write as the Knoxville Gourmet Food Examiner and the Knoxville Coffee Examiner. For Writing...

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