buddha wants you to know that even though ‘life is suffering’, drink acai
and you probably think i made that up, right?  "not just a berry, a lifestyle…" but no dear readers, it’s the actual motto from the acai roots company.  i definitely would have been so berry much more clever.
and do you see that glass […]

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or more accurately, peanut butter noodles. but the dish is still much better known as "noodles in sesame sauce" and usually ‘cold’, at that.  at least in nyc where i lived on it for the better part of my early 20’s. and even though i’ve seen a few versions that use roasted tahini, the peanut butter version just […]

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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 request.  […]

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i want to thank luisa from ‘the wednesday chef’ for posting her scrambled eggs with shrimp dinner.  her dinner wasn’t pretty.  nope, not even a little.  and she knew it but was real about the situation on the plate including the fact that it tasted really good.  because the truth is that life isn’t always pretty, right?  and in the case […]

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cary loves pad thai.  a lot.  he loves pad thai so much that i can sometimes even bribe him with the promise of this dinner.  i’ve found that it is good to have a dish this adored in your relationship arsenal, especially when dealing with certain yard-work hating men.
so early on in our relationship and before my blogging days, […]

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