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 [...]

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after the 6 day ny fling followed by no less than 5 bowls of oatmeal in 3 days, it was time to cook something.  honestly, i could have gone longer but it’s this csa issue that i deal with.  i am beyond covered up with the last of the summer tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, peppers, zucchini’s and now winter squash [...]

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necessity being the mother of invention, i used what i had.  leftover from my lobster rolls of two weeks ago were four frozen but perfectly good hot dog buns.  a great excuse to bust out the frozen ground beefalo and hopefully make two kids happy two nights in a row. i had eye spied this recipe early last month from ‘the clumsy cook‘ [...]

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ok ok i know i know it’s crazy decadent over the top children are starving but… this was some mighty fine beef… and i mean ‘my-T-fiiine’.  so allow me to begin by saying – listen to me here.  do some overtime, sell something on ebay, cut your cable off for a month – or whatever [...]

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here was sunday night’s dinner which was actually quite wonderful despite the photo.  the potatoes were  csa yukons – small one’s – boiled and then flattened and then put in a hot pan with some olive oil for about 3 minutes a side as recently seen in the ny times mag ‘potato tostones’ recipe.  i [...]

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