i make pad thai about every 6 weeks or so.  my last batch was documented here.  i take this ritual pretty seriously and i like to think that my version is by far the best and most authentic in town, which really under the circumstances of where i live is no huge accomplishment. but tonight i had a very special [...]

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eating down the house.  continued… i read a fair few blogs and am constantly inspired by these people who understand food so well.  it certainly makes cooking easier on me.  tonight i riffed off one of my all-time fave blogs, smitten kitchen and enlisted a touch of help from minimally invasive (orange zest/pimenton = wow). [...]

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in keeping with my ‘eating down the house‘ challenge, the only ingredient that i needed for last night’s dinner was some cream, something that i rarely if ever buy or cook with - if only out of a healthy dose of fear.  but i had perused my freezer, fridge and pantry and had a pretty solid idea of what direction i’d be heading.  i reached [...]

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tonight amongst many true culinary crowd pleasing delights i ate pig testicles and they were kinda really ok seriously… fyi: nothing like chicken… enough said.

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3 soups in one day?  ambitious?  perhaps.  but i was hell bent on getting through this mountain of produce that was somehow all mine.  and soups are a good way to go when faced with an overbearing bounty.  i opted first for the bittman pear zucchini, then a riff off an aubergine soup i’d seen [...]

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i buy food.  often.  esoteric ingredients are my game.  a real chef would love my pantry but i’m just a mere wannabe.  yet i continue to believe that if i own all these potential elements of a dish that i will be able to transform my meals into something extraordinary.  you see, when it comes to cooking, i’m not big on technique. [...]

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the long title is really more of a substitution for the lack of photograph.  due to a technical glitch which i neither understand nor care to discuss, i am as devastated as a food blogger could be.  the most wonderful dinner – sans picture.  so the following description is the equivalent of me saying, ‘ok, [...]

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