here it is…the epitome of springtime…  could this not be a more restaurant worthy presentation?  i mean, if this was put down in front of you, wouldn’t you have high expectations?  a yolky fettuccine dressed with creme fraiche… the waft of truffle hitting your nose… yes, this is going to be just incredibly….
awful
dear readers, let’s just […]

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but not on purpose.
you see, i followed the rick bayless recipe word for word, but i used my tan colored organic all natural sugar - and well, i’m pretty certain that may have been the problem.  the small saucepan of simple caramelized syrup felt wrong from the get go.  it never did what it was supposed to […]

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so here’s a fact.  when a dish calls for white wine and you’re too lazy to go and get a bottle, especially when you’ve just uncorked a nice red… don’t think you can substitute one for the other.  because you can’t.
it pretty much blew it for me.  the carbonara was a straight forward version.  onion, pancetta, a […]

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