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 know i’ll be baking my [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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eating down the house.  continued… i read a fair few blogs and am constantly inspired by these people who understand food so well.  it certainly makes cooking easier on me.  tonight i riffed off one of my all-time fave blogs, smitten kitchen and enlisted a touch of help from minimally invasive (orange zest/pimenton = wow). [...]

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in keeping with my ‘eating down the house‘ challenge, the only ingredient that i needed for last night’s dinner was some cream, something that i rarely if ever buy or cook with - if only out of a healthy dose of fear.  but i had perused my freezer, fridge and pantry and had a pretty solid idea of what direction i’d be heading.  i reached [...]

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tonight amongst many true culinary crowd pleasing delights i ate pig testicles and they were kinda really ok seriously… fyi: nothing like chicken… enough said.

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saw it.  had to do it.  and it’s so not about me except to say that i followed directions, barely veering – and if i may say, i did a bang up job. for any and all info please go and visit the woman who once again made it all possible – jennifer of ‘last [...]

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