Entries from January 2008

scientific pairings

January 8th, 2008 · 8 Comments

(once again, this piece was also originally written for a more general audience, but i thought i d share it with you lest it too die a senseless death.) there are so many classic american food combinations that we ve grown up on. peanut butter and jelly and macaroni and cheese could easily top the [...]

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Tags: random

seared foie gras with poached pears, shitake and blue cheese

January 7th, 2008 · 11 Comments

new years eve. first course. a lightly salted 1" slice of hudson valley foie gras alongside a pear poached in vanilla infused cranberry cherry juice with a squeeze of lemon – then filled with a sauteed shitake blue cheese mixture. a friend of mine had this winning combination while on holiday and decided to recreate [...]

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Tags: foie gras

the little truffle that couldn’t

January 4th, 2008 · 14 Comments

hi everyone! happy new year! i took a little holiday hiatus. didja miss me? cause i missed you. honest. so here’s to a wonderful ’08. because i need to tell you how on the last day of ’07 i was totally robbed. yep. i was robbed of my new years eve truffle experience. i went [...]

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Tags: pasta · truffles

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