Writing about food since 2004.
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Recipes
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Pasta Is A Dish Best Served Cold. And with Sun-Dried Tomatoes.
Food pictures can be erotic, can’t they? See if this picture makes your mouth horny: Is that the first time I used the word “horny” in a post? I apologize. Did you know my 5th Grade teacher Mrs. White was fired mid-year because she let one of my classmates play that rap song that goes…
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Sloth Make Rocky Road
Hey you guys!! Me Sloth! You Chunk! I love you Chunk! Me Sloth like Rocky Road. You like Rocky Road? Me make it! Me make Rocky Road with book from Chocolate Man. Buy book here. It good book. Make Rocky Road: buy chocolate. 1 1/4 lbs [565 grams] [20 oz.] bittersweet or semisweet. Chop chocolate.…
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I May Not Watch Rome, But I Make A Mean Caesar
There was a time I carried a Palm Pilot—back when I went to law school and I wanted my life mapped out for me. I had my schedule, I had my phone numbers: it was all very formal. I hated it. I have friends and people in my life who must schedule everything, who map…
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The Bowl That Comes With A Recipe (Summer Nectarine and Arugula Salad with Raspberry Vinaigrette)
On a pre-lunch walk the other day, I passed Fishs Eddy. According to their website, Fishs Eddy “specializes in American flatware.” That’s a very formal way of saying they sell funky and fun dishes and plates and spoons and bowls. Some are cheap, some are expensive, but it’s always a treat to go browse around.…
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Everybody Ought To Have A Scone
If there was a betting pool and the bet was: “Is Adam pregnant?” you may do well to put aside preconceived notions about gender and childbirth and take seriously the following fact. I have strange cravings for scones in the middle of the night. Not only do I have these cravings, I listen to them…
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Call Me Corny But I Love Corn Soup with Salsa
The nicest thing about Alice Waters’ Vegetable book (which I’ve been raving about for a few posts now; and which, as I’ve mentioned before, was a gift from one of my readers) is that it helps you become a seasonal cook without having to make too many changes to your life. To really understand seasonal…
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Cooking, Art and Magic: Summer Squash and Corn Pasta
There is a link, methinks, between cooking, art and magic. The best evidence I can give to support this theory is from Act 4.1 of Macbeth. Enter the witches. First Witch: Round about the cauldron go, In the poisoned entrails throw Toad that under cold stone Days and nights has thirty-one sweltered venom sleeping got…
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A Pine Nut Coffee Cake, If You’re So Inclined
This is a pine nut coffee cake: It comes from the Babbo cookbook. It’s the cake I tried to make a few weeks ago, only to fail, leading to the hit film Failure. This time the cake came out a-ok (last time I forgot to add the butter) and the finished product looks pretty and…
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When life throws you risotto, make Arancini!
There’s nothing I like less than day-old risotto. When it’s hot off the stove, all the textures and flavors meld together to create a soothing, heavenly mixture. But after a day in the fridge, it turns a bit gummy and then heating it up inevitably makes it gummier. What to do with day old risotto?!…
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The Almond Cake That Will Save Your Soul
The ingredients are simple: butter, sour cream, baking soda, flour, sea salt, sugar, almond paste, 4 egg yolks, almond extract and confectioner’s sugar for dusting. But assembled as they are and baked as they were, this cake is sheer perfection. On pg. 70 of Hesser’s book (referenced also in the previous post), this cake was…
