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Food

How to cook the perfect bird

Thomas Keller's homestyle fried chicken is a winner. The recipe comes from his new cookbook Ad Hoc at Home. Excerpted from AD HOC AT HOME by Thomas Keller (Artisan Books). Copyright 2009.

You will not need Jack Nicholson's help to make easy pieces of chicken.

Food Network Recipe of the Day

Meatballs with a White Wine Sauce

Two types of cheese jazz up David Rocco's beefy meatballs.

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Side Dishes

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You can fool people with this delicious dressing.

Tofu Caesar Salad Dressing

Three times a year the ATCO Blue Flame Kitchen is invited to cook with Calgary firefighters as they deliver a weeklong program to elementary students at the Fire Training Academy at a program called Campus Calgary. We are there to talk with the students about healthy food, kitchen safety and teamwork.

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Papayas

Appetizers

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Tortilla Soup

Cook's Note: Hot peppers cause severe skin and eye irritation. Wear rubber gloves when handling hot peppers and avoid touching any exposed skin.

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Olympic Food

Desserts

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Effy Ligris says she likes the distinct flavour that L'Olivier de Vassily and other extra-virgin olive oils impart to baked goods.

Good for your heart, olive oil takes the cake

Butter usually takes centre stage in baking. Think butter tarts, buttercream frosting and shortbread cookies.

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Dessert

Drinks

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Suggesting very specific food and wine matches is generally pointless, and that there's a clearer consensus on which wines do not go with certain foods than on those that do.

Wine and food pairings to avoid

I have a healthy disdain for those lists of wine and food matches you find in wine books and on websites. They play to the lack of confidence many people have when it comes to choosing a bottle of wine to go with a particular meal, and say, "Don't think about it yourself. Choose a wine that I suggest."

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Women & Wine

Main Course

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Who doesn't like pizza? In this case, individual-size servings minus the preservatives and additives so often found in the boxed, frozen variety.

Personalized pizza in a pinch

An entire week at home with Munchkins (with a decided emphasis on munch) may leave you pressed for easy, tasty eats that everyone can make with minimal fuss. And who doesn't like pizza? In this case, individual-size servings minus the preservatives and additives so often found in the boxed, frozen variety.

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