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  • Vote!

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    I’m sure I don’t need to tell my readers to go out and vote or who to vote for (can you guess who I’m voting for?) but just in case there’s a person out there sitting at home reading this, apathetically eating Doritos with Dorito fingers scared of getting Dorito dust on the voting booth…

  • Alex’s Birthday Dinner

    Alex’s Birthday Dinner

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    You may recall that the worst meal I’ve ever cooked for people in my life was the meal I cooked for my friends Alex and Raife in March of 2007 (see here). Rereading that post, I don’t think it was as awful as I remember it being; but the pressure was high because Alex, one…

  • Turkey Kong

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    Fans of Lindy’s banners are really going to dig this month’s riff on Thanksgiving. Click on over from your Reader; if you still see trick-or-treating candidates, clear your cache and load it up again. Thanks, again, to my awesome team of banner makers: Lindy, Leah, Justin & Ben. You guys are the best; gobble, gobble.

  • Twitter Updates, On The Side

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    You’ll notice on the left side of the page, above our Flickr pool (which is so awesome, by the way; thanks to all of you uploading pictures!) you can now follow my Twitter feed. So now there’s an extra reason to visit my page a thousand times a day: you can see what I’m doing…

  • A.G. Flickr Pool

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    It’s the last time I’ll mention it, promise! But check out the left side of my page now: you’ll see YOUR Flickr pictures staring back at you. Yes, I am prominently featuring The Amateur Gourmet Flickr Pool on the main page of the blog. Which means your dinner, your lunch, your breakfast, your snack can…

  • An Engagement Story

    An Engagement Story

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    This post doesn’t really involve food, though it takes a detour to Jean-Georges by way of Ssam Bar. Instead, it concerns two prominent figures from this blog who you’ve known and loved for as long as I’ve known and loved them; namely, Diana, my close friend and former roommate, and Mark, Craig’s close friend and…

  • Weekend Baking: Crispy Salted White Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies

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    This is baking weather, peoples. What better on a chilly day than to fill the apartment/house/shack with the smell of something baking in the oven? Nothing better, I say, nothing. Last weekend I had you make a chocolate cake and many of you came through; but this time I bet even more of you will…

  • Kim Cooks Vietnamese (Bo Luc Lac & Cha Gio)

    Kim Cooks Vietnamese (Bo Luc Lac & Cha Gio)

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    I’ve known many people who want to be famous, but very few think about the kind of fame they want. For those of you who secretly crave fame, however big or small, may I suggest that you strive for food blogger fame? It’s a really good kind of fame. 99 out of 100 people have…

  • Chocolate Cake

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    Ladies and gentleman, this has been a rough week. My flu mutated into a cold and then back into a flu again. I hardly have the energy to type these words, I’m rapidly fading. Yet, I am filled with hope as I harken back to two weeks ago when I made the chocolate cake you…

  • Dangerous Duck

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    I’ve been doing this blog for almost five years–FIVE YEARS!–and in those five years I have never, not even once, made myself sick from something I cooked. Until now. Look at that lovely autumnal duck dish, above. It comes from a famous chef’s cookbook, but he’s not such a famous chef that I want to…