after 6 weeks of being away from my kitchen, i finally got to throw a dinner together.  something simple and quick - something light and fresh.  scallops are a favorite and a red pepper sauce pairing makes an effortless and classic dish. 
into the vita-mix went:
a roasted red pepper - blackened, peeled, seeded
small clove of garlic
smoked salt
cayenne […]

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i’m a book buyer.  which doesn’t necessarily mean that i’m always a book reader.  of course each book is carefully chosen with varying degrees of hope, excitement and promise, and the contents of my cyber cart are always just one quick click away from being all mine…  but then the books arrive only to be relegated to any number of stacks […]

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i broke my mayonnaise.  but i am here to tell you that it is fixable.  i started mine in the vita-mix and well, it’s just not the way to go.  unless perhaps you’re making a very large quantity and then the whirly thingamajig will actually be able to blend what’s in there.  but one egg yolk, some […]

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the people over at ’serious eats’ may have their own version of this (and in multi-parts), which i do find amusing, but so you know, i simply can not STAND this woman - her food will never touch my culinary radar, the mere thought of possibly cooking any of her unappealing southern fat-bomb recipes repels me beyond belief - which unfortunately […]

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i just wrote an entire post on this dish, hit publish and
IT WAS LOST FOREVER. 
and now i wanna literally cry because well, i’m tired.  and other stuff.  but i took a long time writing this post and i thought it was kinda good, and with a ton of links… but dear readers, i just can’t recreate it.  i […]

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