weatherwise, nashville autumns can be a mixed bag. last week it was in the mid 70′s going down to the low 40′s at night – and today it was 83 and glorious. during this schizophrenic transition into cool weather and comfort foods, sometimes it can be hard to get a handle on ‘seasonal’ eating. but i had some [...]

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               my rss feeder broke.  and i didn’t realize it for 3 months.  mostly because i (still) don’t even understand what exactly an rss feeder is, or what it does – talk about being oh so techno savvy… but my stat’s were dropping off and well, try as i might to just ignore the cold [...]

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so… perhaps fresh linguine is ‘wrong’ for this dish,  i mean there are so many pastas and so little time to figure out exactly what goes with what or even more importantly – what doesn’t…. and perhaps the italian food gods are looking down on me and wondering what the hell i was thinking because spaghetti would have [...]

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exhibit A 10 months ago i was introduced to bottarga and initially it didn’t go well.  but really what i had gotten my hands on was bottarga’s ugly step cousin – some dried powdered tuna roe.  it was, in my opinion – overpriced and somewhat pointless.  wanting to understand the hype, from there the bottarga experience went from here (bad) to [...]

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i’ve been seeing this dish around.  and then i spotted it on ruhlman’s blog .  and that was pretty much it for me.  call it a defining moment - but i’d already been tempted, and now this pasta had to happen in my kitchen – and soon.  i immediately began mentally preping the raviolo’s by going through the ‘mise’ in my [...]

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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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and if i wanted to sleep with you, it’d be ’torcetti con salsa di noci e funghi’.  but being that we’re all platonic here, i thought i’d keep it to the english since i hit you so hard in my last post with my γαλακτομπο?ρεκο.  i’m forever browsing blogs, looking for inspiration – and this dish caught my [...]

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