i made this up. i just opened up my fridge and started grabbing jars and after the 4th i stopped. i suppose i’d call this dish moroccan. i mean, i could really call it anything i pleased – as long as i didn’t call it late for dinner… hee. i just grabbed some organic roasted [...]

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this picture is taken in pre-oven-roasted status. sadly, the post-oven-roasted photo op just never happened, and now these olives are long gone – brought to a dinner party and set down beside some mighty fine cheeses and bread – and then there was all that wine… i meant to remember and i just didn’t. anyway, [...]

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a friend dropped in tonight, detouring just slightly off the path of an israeli couscous buying excursion.  i had offered to cook for her and i was fortunate that she was agreeable because these days i seem to feel an undefined obligation to ‘nablopomo‘ my life away, relentlessly chained to both the kitchen and the computer simultaneously (a.k.a. [...]

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3 soups in one day?  ambitious?  perhaps.  but i was hell bent on getting through this mountain of produce that was somehow all mine.  and soups are a good way to go when faced with an overbearing bounty.  i opted first for the bittman pear zucchini, then a riff off an aubergine soup i’d seen [...]

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life throws us challenges.  some bigger than others, no doubt.  in this instance the ny jew is presented with a huge and perfect bunch of turnip greens. now i’ve never met a vegetable i didn’t like.  sometimes love might be too strong of a word (green bell peppers, i’m looking at you), but still i’m a big [...]

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it was a quick ‘let’s have lunch’ decision.  and i thought perfect.  zucchini pear soup - a bittman recipe that sounded intriguing from last week’s dining section in the ny times.  and then i immediately thought imperfect.  no pears.  damnit.  i had just bought pears but now they were gone.  i had honeycrisps but that wasn’t going to cut it.  so [...]

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  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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