when ’08 rolls around i will not be baking for quite awhile. if i do, feel free to come to my house and kill me – but only because i will deserve it. baking isn’t even my thing but i can be way too easily coerced into going there. but let’s be honest here. if [...]

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i rarely buy chicken, rarely order chicken when dining out and really – i rarely even like chicken. it’s kind of a ‘nothing’ food to me, almost always somewhat tasteless and uninteresting, taking on whatever sauce you throw at it. but on occasion, like once at ‘david burke and donatella’ in nyc – i’ve stumbled [...]

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i know just what you’re thinking… you look at this and you wonder, where’s the bacon? and really, i’d have thought the very same thing. and i even had some speck in the freezer and bacon in the fridge – and well, i just didn’t. because this was dessert. and yes, i know what you’re [...]

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(this piece was originally written for a more general audience, but i thought i’d share it with you lest it die a senseless death.) december is a mighty decadent month. it gives us a reason to dress better, shop harder – and eat a lot of food. restaurants are slammed, parties abound and your office-kitchen [...]

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in keeping with my fish obsession, the next species up was the thunnus albacares – or tuna steak.  also the one fish that cary would actually consider ordering at a restaurant on the occasional blue moon, so i knew this dinner would be favorably received.  just last week, jennifer from ‘last nights dinner’ had done a pork belly [...]

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i guess you recognize me now as the the #1 fish cook in all the land.  as you should.  so thank you for noticing.  no less than 3 fish dishes in 10 days with a hunk of tuna sitting in the fridge waiting on its turn tonight.  so, is there such a thing as too much fish, [...]

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fish again!  hooray! and within a week of the snapper.  double hooray!  i am so very thrilled and delighted to be making fish!  an overreaction you say?  perhaps.  but i’ll be making up for the under abundance of fish eating that had been happening over here - so brace yourselves because you’re going to be seeing some heavy duty fish cooking going on.  i [...]

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