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Thursday, January 8, 2009

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Make the most of ham, cheeses and other holiday foodstuffs
Got a huge chunk of cheddar staring at you? Got half a ham? How about an extra pound or two of flour? You are not alone.
 (Updated: 01/07/09 10:25 AM )
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Janice Okun: Appreciate our great restaurants
This is an unabashed count-your- blessings column. I think the time has come for one. And frankly, I was inspired by Jeff Simon’s piece Tuesday in which he decried Buffalo’s shoddy reputation in the media and elsewhere. (And in our own consciousness too, let us not forget that.)  (Updated: 01/07/09 8:21 AM )
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Slow cooker can be your new best friend
If you’ve been slow to warm up to slow cookers, it probably wasn’t the incredible convenience that turned you off. The abundance of recipes relying on processed cheese and canned cream-of-whatever soup, on the other hand ...
 (Updated: 01/07/09 8:15 AM )
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A simple, quick oyster stew
We’re so used to many-ingredient stews that cook for hours that when the recipe for oyster stew landed in our kitchen, it looked almost too simple. We wondered if something was missing from the ingredient list or a step was left off the directions. The stew was pretty much oysters, liquid in the form of milk and half-and-half, celery, and seasonings. The instructions said to cook “until the oysters curl at their edges,” which is just a matter of minutes.
 (Updated: 01/07/09 8:21 AM )
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Other Life News

Here’s the rub — for a pork tenderloin

Next to chops, a pork tenderloin is one of the fastest cooking pork cuts. Small in diameter, the tenderloin can cook in just 20 minutes or so on the stovetop or in the oven. That makes it a perfect weeknight solution for dinner.

 (Updated: 01/07/09 6:17 AM )
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Soda makers sweeten up to sugar substitute stevia

Type “aspartame” or “sucralose” into a search engine, and you’re bound to come up with hits linking the artificial sweeteners to some sort of malady. Never mind that the Food and Drug Administration says they’re safe.

 (Updated: 01/07/09 6:17 AM )
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‘Still Alice’ explores love and loss of Alzheimer’s

For Lisa Genova, Alzheimer’s hit home intimately. Right at the dinner table. That’s where her beloved grandmother, Angie, was sitting, one evening in 2002, when the memory-stealing disease abruptly took her life.

 (Updated: 01/06/09 9:47 AM )
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Jeff Simon: Buffalo leads the way in history

You can’t see Darnell Martin’s “Cadillac Records” in Toronto. You never could.

 (Updated: 01/06/09 7:48 AM )
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Bubble Boy Blog reaches people worldwide

Granton Bayless scoots across the living room couch. When he nears the cushion’s edge, an adult gently intercepts him and holds him in her arms.

 (Updated: 01/06/09 9:54 AM )
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Janice Okun

This is an unabashed count-your- blessings column. I think the time has come for one. And frankly, I was inspired by Jeff Simon’s piece Tuesday in which he decried Buffalo’s shoddy reputation in the media and elsewhere. (And in our own consciousness too, let us not forget that.)

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