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Cobb Salad
Cobb Salad

The Cobb salad is a main-dish American garden salad typically made with chopped salad greens (iceberg lettuce, watercress, endives and romaine lettuce), tomato, crisp bacon, boiled, grilled or roasted (but not fried) chicken breast, hard-boiled eggs, avocado, chives, Roquefort cheese, and red-wine vinaigrette.

Fajitas Fajitas: the Epitome of Tex-Mex Cuisine
Fajitas Fajitas: the Epitome of Tex-Mex Cuisine

Fajita is a Tex-Mex, Texan-Mexican American or Tejano, diminutive term for little strips of meat cut from the beef skirt, the most common cut used to make fajitas. The word fajita is not known to have appeared in print until 1971, according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

Jerky
Jerky

Jerky is lean meat that has been trimmed of fat, cut into strips, and then dried to prevent spoilage. Normally, this drying includes the addition of salt, to prevent bacteria from developing on the meat before sufficient moisture has been removed. The word "jerky" is derived from the Quechua word ch'arki which means "dried, salted meat".

Key Lime pie
Key Lime pie

The aromatic juice, the key ingredient (sorry, we can’t help ourselves) in the famous pie, from Key limes comes with a catch: It take a lot more of these guys to produce the same amount of juice that comes from the more common Persian variety. But fresh Key lime juice is worth the elbow grease, so don’t compromise with the bottled stuff.

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Pot Roast
Pot Roast

Pot roast with carrots and fresh parsley in a slow cooker Boliche with rice and plantains Pot roast is a braised beef dish made by browning a roast-sized piece of beef before slow cooking the meat in a covered dish, sometimes with vegetables, in or over liquid.

San Francisco Sourdough Bread
San Francisco Sourdough Bread

In a bowl stir together 126 grams of bread flour with 83 grams of water at room temperature with 24 grams of the (rye) sourdough culture. Mix it well for about 1 minute until all the ingredients have been combined and you have a dough like ball.

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Tater Tots
Tater Tots

Tater tots are pieces of deep-fried, ... Americans consume approximately 70,000,000 pounds (32,000,000 kg) of tater tots, or 3,710,000,000 tots per year.

Twinkies
Twinkies

A Twinkie is an American snack cake, marketed as a "Golden Sponge Cake with Creamy Filling". It was formerly made and distributed by Hostess Brands. The brand is currently owned by Hostess Brands, Inc. ...

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