Food Meditations...: Bake and Roast, Eat, Drink and Be Marry on Fat Tuesday

Food in Seasons ~

March

"Stuff cockles into a rustic paella, serve grilled sardines with lemon wedges, or wow with native oysters"

As the days get longer, help yourself to fresh seasonal flavours...
Read more: Seasonal ingredients in March; bbc.co.uk

"Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion." ~Martha Graham, American Choreographer (quotations.about.com)

delightfully yours, Food Meditations

Holiday table
Can the classic New Orleans king cake withstand an upgrade? Here are four options just in time for Fat Tuesday...
Read more: King makers: Bakers reimagine the famous Mardi Gras cake; washingtonpost.com

~ Happy Mardi Gras 2011! Eat, drink and be merry this Fat Tuesday; latimes.com

How to ...
Melissa Clark, the author of the Good Appetite column, shows how simple it is to roast a whole fish in a home oven...
Video: How to Roast a Whole Fish; nytimes.com

Pantry notes
~ If you like to bake, then you probably have a decently stocked pantry...
Read more: Pantry Raid: 16 Desserts You Can Make Without a Trip to the Grocery Store; bonappetit.com

~ Organic Eggs May Have The Same Flavor As Conventional, But They Still Taste Better; treehugger.com
~ Pop-Tarts re-created in your own kitchen; latimes.com

Chef talk
~ Marcus Samuelsson: How I got here; eatocracy.cnn.com
~ Pastry Chef Johnny Iuzzini of Jean Georges and Top Chef Talks with StarChefs Studio; starchefs.com

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
Last fall, the pop idol Lady Gaga wore an evening dress made entirely of meat to the MTV Video Music Awards...
Read more: Behind the Meat Dress - There are people sewing the meat dress; meatpaper.com

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Healthy corner
~ Fashion week has come and gone here in New York, but with all the models, designers and wanna-be fashionistas roaming about town just a week ago...
Read more: Gluten-free and well-fed: When did G-free get all…sexy?; eatocracy.cnn.com

~ Detox Diets; allure.com

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Appetibilis
~ Gambas à l'Armoricaine; cuisinemalin.fr
~ Ode to Pizza; saltyseattle.com
~ Homemade Eggrolls; stetted.com
~ Spicy Tofu Pakoras; rawgirlinmumbai.blogspot.com
~ Scallion Pancakes; blognewblack.com

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