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The Breakaway Cook loves to explore new tastes, to reimagine classic combinations with powerful bursts of unexpected global flavors. The result is healthful, delicious food that's simple to prepare at home.
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A Breakaway Chinese New Year
Posted Tue, Feb 13, 2007, 1:48 am PSTTraditional Chinese new year preparations are amazing to watch. It all starts with an exhaustive, every-square-inch cleaning session of the house,…
POST A COMMENT (10)Cooking Under Pressure
Posted Mon, Feb 12, 2007, 11:08 am PSTPressure cookers are a challenge for many people: Too many of us have scary memories of rattling, dangerous-looking contraptions that would sometimes…
POST A COMMENT (38)Salvaging On-the-Edge Fruits and Veggies -- The Perfect Breakaway Opportunity
Posted Fri, Feb 09, 2007, 3:51 pm PSTI'm all for eating the freshest of everything, but reality has this funny way of intervening on a regular basis. I get some of my biggest culinary…
POST A COMMENT (4)Breakaway Stuff at the Fancy Food Show
Posted Tue, Jan 30, 2007, 7:14 pm PSTMost of the foods at the Fancy Food Show -- which convenes each winter on the West Coast, each spring in Chicago, and each summer in New York -- can…
POST A COMMENT (5)Braising Meats
Posted Wed, Jan 17, 2007, 1:58 pm PSTLike your meat to be so tender that it falls off the bone if you just glance at it? Then braising is the...
POST A COMMENT (26)Deliciously Bitter Winter Greens
Posted Thu, Jan 11, 2007, 2:40 pm PSTMustard greens, collard greens, kale, chard, turnip greens, beet greens, dandelion greens . . . they all beckon. But what to do with them?
POST A COMMENT (11)It's a New Year -- Time to Break Away from Your Regularly Scheduled Food
Posted Tue, Jan 02, 2007, 4:27 pm PSTAm I the only person who gets tired of eating the same things all the time? We all of course have our favorite meals and return to them again and…
POST A COMMENT (17)Miso, The Savory Powerhouse
Posted Thu, Dec 28, 2006, 11:45 am PSTMiso is a first-string breakaway player. It lives in your fridge, always ready to perform...
POST A COMMENT (8)Last-Minute Christmas Dinner Tips
Posted Wed, Dec 20, 2006, 5:46 pm PSTIf you're like me, you still don't have all your Christmas shopping finished, let alone the dinner menu planned. All those dishes, all that shopping,…
POST A COMMENT (98)A Ridiculously Stress-free (aka Breakaway) Christmas
Posted Thu, Dec 14, 2006, 2:27 pm PSTWhy do we all feel such unbearable pressure around this time of the year? Let’s face it: We’re all way too tired from the flurry of…
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