A classic chicken recipe calls for 40 cloves of garlic! Shocking, isn't it? Not 4 cloves, not even 10 cloves, but 40! But home cooks love their recipes for 40-clove garlic chicken and work to perfect the recipes to match their families' taste. If you've not tried garlic chicken yet, I've collected several variations to get you started.

Life's Ambrosia says it so passionately. "I just discovered browned butter and I think I’m in love. It’s so nutty and delicious that it’s absence from my recipe repertoire for so long is pure blasphemy." Browned butter is one of those 'basic techniques' that every cook should tackle. I've collected ten recipes -- savory and sweet -- all to tempt BlogHers to give brown butter a try!

Near my home is an international grocery with foods from across the world, an aisle for Mexico, an aisle each for India, China and Mexico, with half aisles for Vietnam, Russia, Indonesia, western Europe, Africa, the Caribbean. It's a destination store of the best kind, a place where recent immigrants and foodies stumble over one another to stock up on ingredients otherwise difficult if not impossible to find. I love to ask a shopper whose cart is teetering with some foodstuff, knowing I'll hear a story about how much that something reminds her of home.

Love it or hate it, the February calendar never-ever skips over February 14, so there's no avoiding Valentine's Day itself, even if it's easy to forgo the rush of commercialized hearts 'n' roses expectations. Reservations? Hard to come by, and the food, mass-produced and wallet-pricey. Instead, celebrate Valentine's in style, at home, with recipes that won't break the bank or stifle the mood and can easily be called "Sunday Supper" if you really, really just can't bear the idea of celebrating Valentine's. I've collected ten classic shrimp recipes, ones you just might fall for.

It's an insidious plot. Food blogs are mounting a V-like alien invasion of the blogosphere. With soft words, we beguile, "We bring you butter and bacon. Life on blog will be forever better." Bearing dSLRs and 50mm lenses, we tempt. Cupcakes! Caramel! 'Tis no hoax, food bloggers aim to control -- take over! rule forever! -- the entire blog world. New evidence reveals that our nefarious plan is working. Just look -- look!