i made this up. i just opened up my fridge and started grabbing jars and after the 4th i stopped. i suppose i’d call this dish moroccan. i mean, i could really call it anything i pleased – as long as i didn’t call it late for dinner… hee. i just grabbed some organic roasted [...]

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dear readers, i’m past the point of caring who chooses to defend this statement – but overall, the mexican food in nashville is Not. Good. it is the subject of many a local conversation and frankly, i am OVER the topic and am currently inconvincible of anything otherwise. for the most part, i’ve just given [...]

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another first for me. i had bought the shank on a whim and promptly put it in my freezer. so now, about a month later and before it got too warm to dine on braised meat in a rich sauce, i decided to try my hand at the classic dish, osso buco.and then i looked [...]

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this picture is taken in pre-oven-roasted status. sadly, the post-oven-roasted photo op just never happened, and now these olives are long gone – brought to a dinner party and set down beside some mighty fine cheeses and bread – and then there was all that wine… i meant to remember and i just didn’t. anyway, [...]

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  as one might imagine, mostly i cook for others.  and so when it comes time to serve dinner i’m always having to say, ‘please, go ahead and start’, because i am usually behind a lens, tackling a tripod, trying to take a pic of whatever’s on my plate.  so sometimes i rush.  and this [...]

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people, i know what you’re thinking. but i’m telling you – do not fear the whole wheat pasta. i totally understand that it’s not for everyday, and that it’s not a substitution from hereon in. it is quite simply, an entity unto itself… and this dish really is a whole wheat pasta kinda dish. and [...]

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i read about ‘orangette’s’ brussels shuffle, and the description of her market breakfast was more than i could stand I should begin by saying this: do not underestimate the combined power of fresh goat cheese, honey, and olives. (Or spicy olives, to be specific, coated in something akin to harissa.) It is the trifecta…. so [...]

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