this pasta dish was like orgasmic good.  this pasta dish was like ‘last supper’ good.  quite frankly, this pasta dish surprised the hell out of me.  and there’s no cooking to speak of.  would thomas keller smugly laugh at my overly simplistic culinaryesque joie de vivre?  thomas, stop it.  because listen up here mr. keller, it’s going [...]

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i’m kinda drunkish <yawn> my best friends came over tonight and cary’s working late.  he doesn’t ever drink anymore.  as the story goes he drank his share and then some early on – prior to us meeting.  so i drink much less these days.  which is a good thing.  but tonight i drank and now i’m a little drunk.  [...]

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  my guy humors me.  he buys me two different batches of lobster from the same place at the same time.  one batch is twice the price for half as much.  that batch comes from two freshly steamed ‘chicks’ whereas the other comes from lobsters that were ‘on their way out’ – meaning that they’re showing signs [...]

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i was an ice cream making virgin. and i’m not counting that time at girl scout camp when we were hand-cranking a machine out in the woods and the rock salt bled into the ice cream rendering it inedible and well – i’m not counting that, ok? it was a classic adolescent near miss… and [...]

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if you’re reading this post then there is a good chance that like me, you probably really look forward to the wednesday edition of the ny times. their dining section is a veriable wealth of information filled with great writing, great sources and inspiring ideas. not to mention the recipes. so on wednesday, june 13 [...]

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there was no way i was turning on the oven.  really, even grilling was brave.  yesterday was 104 and as i type it’s 105. 105… i had defrosted some locally processed beautiful chicken breasts and they needed to get cooked.  i prefer to do them in the oven as last time my results were so [...]

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ok – so maybe i am being unoriginal with how i’m using my csa share.  but people, what else does one do with mega quantities of assorted peppers, squash, eggplant and tomatoes?  it’s the ol’ no brainer, right?  right???  i am rationalizing.  am i rationalizing?  i need some help here.  i think that next year [...]

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