THE CHEF FROM HELL

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We had a recent software crash of some kind and lost all of our Visitor Map pins and pictures etc. --- I'm very sad about this event as so many of my friends from around the world had been kind enough to stop by & place a pin in the ol' Visitor's Map---  the map has been re-set so if you'd like... Add A Pin To our Map!

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Continuing our coverage of the global food crisis:  Here's a piece from the Wall Street Journal that blows a wisp of common sense our way:  "Boost research on improving farm yields. Invest more in irrigation and rural transportation. Power African farms with solar and wind energy. Produce biofuels with inedible vegetation, instead of corn.  Each of these steps would help ease the global food crisis -- eventually. But none of them would make a difference over the next year or so. Here are some ideas that could..." 

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Here's a quick little recipe for chocolate chip muffins from Sweet Loretta, my wife (& head baker at the Chef From Hell Kitchen).  The muffins in the first batch she made had tops that were really white looking so I immediately said, "Oh! Albino muffins!  My favorite!"  Sadly, subsequent batches of these tasty munchables looked normal and the muffins no longer had a ghostly hue.  Heck, I'm keeping the name anyway.  Hoo Hah!

Ingredients:

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Every Monday, we skim the cyber soup to find the top food related blog posts for your reading pleasure!

The Culinary Jigsaw Mystery blog post Feast O' Beets features some wonderful recipes for beets!  The blog, which hails from the Washington D.C. area, celebrates freshly prepared food with an accent on vegetables.

If improvisation in the kitchen is your thing, you'll probably enjoy the Ham Pie Sandwiches blog which takes an "of-the-moment" approach in recipes like Chili Mash (ingredients: leftover chili, several boiling potatoes, any mash addenda you like).  I've never been a slave to recipes I encounter and once in awhile it's important to remember the true spirit of cooking--- finding some ingredients & seeing where it all goes, eh?

If you're looking for a food blog with a different bent to it, check out the...

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