…and a pork chop. 
but in this instance, who cares?  not me, that’s who.  it was a run-of-the-mill chop from ‘the fresh market’, and personally, i can always take or leave these kind of pork chops.  cary’s a fan, so i pick some up on occasion.  but those beans?  you’d have to fight me for those beans..  rancho […]

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i know… i’ve been going on and on about this slab-o-pork for awhile now, haven’t i?  but really, it all began just 2 weeks ago.  well, that was the day the pork belly arrived.  but by the time it landed at my door i had already spent some time deciding on how i would go about handling […]

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i swear this dish started out as a vegetarian dinner. and it was. twice. until it just couldn’t be anymore.
and really, there is so very little meat on this plate. just 2 measly strips of: “MY-VERY-OWN-UNFREAKINREAL-CURED-BACONY-STUFF”. i mean, who the hell knew you could do this? next thing you […]

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no, no - not the cola.  we’re talkin’ rob cox.  a professional cook here in town.  i love this guy for too many reasons to list.  but if i were to make a list, on there somewhere would be both his exuberant passion for food, and that he’s a fun friend to have around because we […]

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about a month ago i bought some tuscan wild fennel pollen and it’s been on my mind to break it out.  last night it premiered in my kitchen.  did you hear about it?  because it was very exciting - if one is so inclined to feel that way about such things…
like my spanish smokey pimenton, the fennel […]

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