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Reacting to the heat, firefighters emerge into the sunlight after battling a 4:45 p.m. blaze in three-story twin house in the 5200 block of Ridge Avenue yesterday. There were no injuries.

Bonifacio Guenechea is a very generous man, and has some very special cooking ware. I first met "Boni" only a few months back when I borrowed three of his pans to cook a benefit beach party for Cystic Fibrosis at my brother's home in the Florida Keys. Boni's pans (he calls them "Magic-Pans") are giant paella pans that come with their own butane burner and tripod, and are perfect for cooking for a crowd. With three of them, I cooked beef, chicken and Florida lobster for 250 people in just over an hour.

Green eggs and pan We haven't had great luck with nonstick pans. But our initial experience with Cuisinart's new "Green Gourmet" skillet was promising. Not only does it fry an egg without butter, but the cleanup is a cinch. Cuisinart says the nonstick surface is a petroleum-free, ceramic-based material, not the Teflon-style stuff said to harm the environment. Its other eco-friendly claims? The packaging is 100 percent recycled, and the pan needs less energy to stay hot. A subtle snap The cooler weather calls for these thin and crispy Swedish cookies, crackling with ginger, cinnamon and cloves.

Athletes apparently are growing weary of the food in the Olympic Village. For breakfast, the menu is usually scrambled powdered eggs and overcooked bacon. For lunch and dinner, the choice is varied but straight, solid food without frills. Roast pork and chicken do not meet the needs of some athletes. Nor does the eternal noodle, American-style coffee or Korean-style ginseng tea. "That's the complaints we've been getting most of," said Anne Beddow of the International Olympic Committee.

JEANNETTE, PA. - A western Pennsylvania man found not guilty of beating his very intoxicated fiancée with a frying pan will still spend 20 to 60 months in prison for fighting with an officer who arrested him. Westmoreland County prosecutors charged Timothy Lenhart, 56, with attacking Jennifer Hix on July 10, 2010. About a year before that, Lenhart was acquitted of poking out Hix's eye with an umbrella, and he avoided conviction in the frying-pan attack because Hix testified that she couldn't remember the beating.

Off the diamond, they are a charmingly fresh-faced troupe that might pass for those on a high school senior class trip. Young - as in naive, unspoiled and slightly innocent - is the definitive word for the baseball players representing the United States in the 10th Pan- American Games. How young? Well, the 20-man U.S. team that won the right to face Cuba in today's gold medal game with a 7-6 victory over Canada last night includes a half-dozen 19- year-olds and seven other players who are 20. Of the seven whose longevity has qualified them for such envied privileges as drinking beer legally in any state, two said goodbye to 21 some months ago. At a seasoned 23, outfielder Don Guillot of Port Isabel, Texas, is the most venerable member of coach Ron Fraser's flock.

Dear Anne and Nan: I have several old cast-iron frying pans that have a layer or two (or three or four) of stuff on the outside. I've been trying to get it off but gave up. A neighbor lady said it was old water buildup from years of sitting in water. (We found these at an old barn sale.) I love cast iron and would like to get them back into usable order. - Louise Fairbanks, Tecumseh, Mich. Dear Louise: The "old-timey" way of cleaning the crusty residue from cast-iron cooking utensils (and the one we've always used)

A "kissing bandit" ended up in the frying pan after he broke into a 27- year-old woman's apartment in Oxford Circle on Nov. 19. "The victim struck him on the head with her frying pan," said Assistant District Attorney Gail Fairman yesterday. "That was after she kicked him in the groin, and he asked her to help him to get out of the apartment. " "'I didn't want to kill him," testified the woman during a preliminary hearing for Adam Ambrose, 27, of Hegerman Street near Tyson Avenue, Oxford Circle.

Leaking shower pans can cause quite a bit of damage, and many times you might not become aware of it for a long while. If the pan has to be replaced, you might be talking lots of money and a lot of work. But before you get into all that, you might want to try a little trick that many people have used successfully. No matter what kind of pan you have, you might be able to seal the tile surface without actually repairing the pan. If the grout joints are properly sealed, no water goes through and, therefore, there's no need for the pan. Plan on coating the entire tile shower floor and at least one row of tiles up on all the walls.

What may have been the gutsiest long-jump competition of his career gave Carl Lewis a Pan-American Games gold medal yesterday, and it proved once again that, even without the world record, he is the all-time performer in the history of this event. Lewis came into the 10th Pan-Am Games hoping to surpass Bob Beamon's world record of 29 feet, 2 1/2 inches - an enduring standard set in the 7,500-foot altitude of Mexico City during the 1968 Olympics. But even before the competition started at Indiana University's track stadium, where a record crowd of 13,281 turned out for the Games' final session of track and field, Lewis' sea-level attempt at beating Beamon was gone with the wind.

TRENTON - Joanne Nyikita is all for early voting, just not the way it is set up in a bill sitting on the governor's desk. Nyikita is superintendent of elections in Burlington County, and in the weeks before a presidential election, she says, she and her staff work 15-hour days, seven days a week, registering voters and making sure things run smoothly. By in effect adding two weeks before the election during which voters can cast their ballots, she said, the state would vastly increase the work of already overstretched county election boards.

Pat Szoke's Spam recipe 2 eggs 1 cup cooked white rice 2 cloves chopped garlic 1/3 pint of cherry tomatoes, quartered Chopped parsley and scallions. In a no-stick sauté pan, lightly toast garlic, add rice and sauté till hot. Meanwhile, in another pan, lightly sear 2 generous slices of Spam until crispy and brown. Remove Spam from pan and add the eggs. Place cooked rice on bottom of plate, top with Spam, then two eggs; top with seasoned tomatoes.

The Eagles are in the honeymoon period of free agency. Last week's shopping spree produced eight players, most of whom arrive at a ripe age, fill a targeted need, and appear to have signed at reasonable prices. Yet a signing cannot be properly assessed in March because the nature of the marriage between a free agent and a new team creates so many unknowns. "When you go into free agency, it's like an arranged marriage in some aspects because you've never lived with the person.

I'M VERY ATTACHED to my paella pan. A gift from my friend Max Baez Berg, a seasoned maitre d'-about-town with a Spanish accent as thick as a well-made romesco sauce, the pan is a thing of beauty. Well-balanced and slightly off-round, it barely fits in my oven, but never mind. When I present the traditional Spanish rice dish in the pot for which it was intended, the oohs and aahs make my day. This pan joins a cadre of other ethnic specialty tools in my cabinets, cookware designed to do specific jobs and do them well.

As students ran across the stage at Cherry Hill High School East, placing buckets on one another's heads and jumping rope in a choreographed frenzy, Erin Weaver silently stood by, watching from the front of the auditorium. "Nice," she said, once the chaos - a scene from the school's forthcoming production of Peter Pan - had ended. Then she climbed on stage, announcing that while there were "a lot of things that were very clean, very fun, very good," others were "totally a mess.

Here is an excerpt from Craig LaBan's online chat from Nov. 27, 2012: Craig LaBan: Went to New York Bagel Bakery, the oldie off City Avenue that sits just behind the McDonald's (7555 Haverford Ave.), and found these bagel sticks. This place is often recommended to me by old-timers who make regular pilgrimages there. This is a classic bagel as it should be - perfect combo of light crunch on the exterior followed by a persistent central chew, then a lingering malty sweetness.

When I tell people I make bread, they inevitably ask if I use a bread machine. That's like asking if I buy my pie crust in the freezer aisle. No. Never. For me, home-baked bread is more than a recipe. The process ties me to my Swedish great-grandmother, to my ancestors. The first bread my mother taught me to bake was Swedish rye, a bread that she serves on Christmas Eve as part of a traditional meal handed down from her Swedish grandmother. Filled with molasses, shredded carrots, orange zest, and bran, this rye bread is sweet and filling and tastes even better with a good slathering of butter.

Company description: Handmade (never frozen) pan pizza. Chain: Domino's. Calories: For a 12-inch with cheese and sauce: 2,240 calories (280/slice), 112 grams fat (64 grams saturated fat), 200 mgs cholesterol, 3,760 mgs sodium. Location: 401 N. 21st St. Order time: 35 minutes. Price: $7.99 (introductory price for a medium with two toppings). Review: The reinvention of Domino's continues. After years of tasteless dough discs, the chain has improved its product. A new thick and crunchy/soft, hand-tossed crust with a touch of garlic, a new sauce, no more freeze-dried ingredients that weren't fit for astronauts - here's a chain pizza that's really good.

It's not exactly the Gutenberg Bible , but J.K. Rowling 's adult novel The Casual Vacancy made headlines on its release Thursday. There were one million preorders for the snarky satire, which debuted at No. 1 on Amazon's best-seller list. It's set in a dull Little Whinging-esque town populated by self-satisfied people much like Harry Potter's odious aunt and uncle. It's riddled with social commentary about the narcissism of the well-off and the misery of the poor. And it has rubbed some critics the wrong way. "The real-life world [Rowling]

I love cheesecake in any form, but this year I am most in love with a cheesecake with a surprise: Nectarine and Black Pepper Cheesecake. Ricotta brings a lightness that is unmatched to the classic New York cheesecake. I add mascarpone and American cream cheese to help balance the ricotta and achieve an ideal creamy texture. Near Modena, in Emilia-Romagna, nectarines are often served with black pepper and balsamic vinegar, a combination so deceptively perfect and balanced that it seemed a logical step to mix that combination with delicious ricotta and cream cheese.