Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

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April 2008

  • Meet The Plates

    Meet The Plates

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    Our old IKEA plates were getting cracked and crackly and I recalled a meal I ate at a restaurant recently (though I don’t remember which specific restaurant–The Little Owl?) where all the entrees were served on quirky, idiosyncratic plates. “Hey!” I said to myself. “I want some quirky, idiosyncratic plates. When it’s time to get…

  • The Worst Typo I’ve Ever Made in the History of My Blog

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    From the post below:”the dark chocolate sorbet was like a big gooey bowel of cold chocolate soup.”Have a great weekend!

  • Recent Meals at Adour & Prune

    Recent Meals at Adour & Prune

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    Brillat Savarin famously said, “Tell me what you eat, I’ll tell you who you are.” As much as I’d like to believe that most people go through their lives believing this, my hunch is that most people don’t think it’s a character-defining moment when they sprinkle Splenda into their coffee. Instead, I think many people…

  • Rena Made Us Dinner

    Rena Made Us Dinner

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    A belated thanks to Rena, Craig’s friend (and now my friend) from Seattle who stayed with us a few weeks ago and made us a delicious dinner of Otsu from Deborah Madison’s Vegetarian Cooking For Everyone. I made Heidi Swanson’s Otsu last May (click here) and really enjoyed my first Otsu experience. Deborah Madison’s otsu…

  • Whitefish Salad

    Whitefish Salad

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    Bagels are my madeline; one bite and a lifetime’s worth of poppy seeds and bad breath spill forth. I’ve written much about bagels on the web–this tribute to Bagelworks in Boca Raton, a bagel love letter for Serious Eats–but I’ve written very little about a bagel topping that’s been a constant in my life and…