Restaurant reviews (Contra Costa Times)

Restaurant reviews (Contra Costa Times)
The following are edited versions of full-length restaurant reviews that have run within the past year in the Times. Restaurants have been reviewed by Times writers John Birdsall and Nicholas Boer. The date the original review ran and its fork rating at that time is in parentheses. In April, we added star ratings to indicate service and ambience.

PostScripts: Notes from the food world (The Cincinnati Post)
The organic movement's rolling right into summer. Edward & Sons Trading Co., based in Carpinteria, Calif., is offering a line of vegan and organic ice cream cones and sugar cones. These are surely the philosophical complement to low-fat ice cream, frozen yogurt, maybe even LaLoo's Goat Milk ice cream.

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HEB and ConAgra to Celebrate Mother's Day Mexican-style with Cooking Camps (Progressive Grocer)

HEB and ConAgra to Celebrate Mother's Day Mexican-style with Cooking Camps (Progressive Grocer)
MAY 11, 2006 -- SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- H.E. Butt Grocery Co. and ConAgra Foods, Inc. are teaming up to help celebrate Mother's Day this weekend with free cooking camps.

BACK TO THE BOOTH (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
The food at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival tastes so good for many reasons, reasons related not just to taste buds but also to the brain and heart.

Editor needs a ribbing about barbecues (Orange Leader)
By Mike Pound THE JOPLIN GLOBE (JOPLIN, Mo.) So the other day, I was trying to decide whether to renew my subscription to Food and Wine when the magazine s editor made my decision for me.

Some try ultra-fat diet to combat medical conditions (KARE 11 Minneapolis-St. Paul)
For a month that tested her determination, Marilyn Deaton dined on little but fat. The recipes she prepared included eggs baked with gobs

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Buffalo Hump Chili

Yield: 1 Servings

3 lb bison, Ground
3 poblano peppers, fresh
2 md onions
30 oz rotel tomatoes, diced (3 can
4 1/2 Tbsp New Mexico chile powder
1 1/2 tsp cumin, Ground
1 1/2 tsp paprika
3 cl garlic
1 fresh lime

Brown the bison meat (add a little oil and break it up as you brown it.) Add finely chopped onions and garlic. When onions are clear, add tomatoes and spices. Add water to barely cover, and simmer until meat is tender. Add chopped poblanos for last 20 minutes of simmer, and stir in lime juice before serving.

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