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Marcella Hazan’s Simple Tomato Sauce (and another contest)

February 3, 2010

I really love to cook, and am finding myself cooking more often now that I have a big, spacious kitchen to cook in (and we’re no longer doing that dual residence thing, which can be a pain). One night this week I wanted to cook, but didn’t want to do anything complicated. Easy cooking doesn’t [...]

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L’shana tova!

September 19, 2009

To my Jewish friends, a very sweet new year! A traditional Rosh Hashanah dish is apple cake– I’m linking to a couple of recipes here both for my reference (man, do I love apple cake!) and in case you’re looking for a recipe. Smitten Kitchen’s (which looks amazing), made in a tube pan for lots [...]

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Recipe: Baked Beans

July 9, 2009

One of the very first meals Terry made me involved baked beans– a stovetop recipe, that involved lots of onions, and it was delicious. Later, he made me this really wonderful oven variety, that involved pineapple and French’s onions. For a party at our friend’s house on the 4th of July, I combined the best [...]

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An Old Friend: The Peanut-Banana Smoothie

June 29, 2009

(Guest post by The Boyfriend) Julie and I have been on a smoothie kick lately. Virtually every summer, I rediscover at least one favorite recipe.  It’s usually an old reliable standby that, for any number of reasons, dropped off the radar for a few years.  Last year, it was bourbon slushes.  (Hmm…I need to make [...]

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Recipe: Boeuf Bourguignon, a la Anthony Bourdain

February 14, 2009

When I started this blog a year ago, one of the very first meals I made and semi-photographed was beef bourgignon.  Freshly arrived from France, I wanted to make some food similar to what we had there.  This hit the spot, and is great for a cold winter’s day. Strangely, this is the only photo [...]

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Recipe: Bacon-Blue Cheese Dip

February 12, 2009

I like bacon.  What omnivore doesn’t?  The week of the Super Bowl, Serious Eats did a recipe a day that involved bacon.  I saw this one, and just had to try it.  It starts off with onions fried in bacon grease– how can it be bad?  I made it twice, once for a Super Bowl [...]

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Christmas Breakfast: Brueggers’ bagels and salmon

December 26, 2008

One of Terry’s favorite breakfasts in the winter is bagels with smoked salmon, capers, red onion and cream cheese. He’s big into Christmas decorations, so he always serves it on a cute Santa plate. Bagels are always Everything bagels from Brueggers (which, aside from Marx, are the closest in texture to a NY bagel you [...]

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Merry Christmas, and a recipe.

December 25, 2008

I hope that, if you celebrate, you have a very merry Christmas.  If you don’t celebrate, I hope you’re enjoying a well-deserved day off work. One of my favorite (newish) Christmas traditions is a drink Terry makes that is the “cheater’s” version of coquito, a Puerto Rican drink that is like coconut eggnog.  It’s super [...]

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Recipe: Olive-Eggplant Spread

December 8, 2008

Our friend Drew had a “High End” party this past weekend. The concept: everyone brings a “high end” appetizer. No cocktail sausages in barbecue sauce, no Velveeta-based queso dip. We were to try to be homemade if we could. The turnout was great and the food was fabulous too. Everything from mushroom and brie tartlets, [...]

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Foodbuzz 24, 24, 24: An Orphan’s Thanksgiving

November 30, 2008

My friends are my family. I don’t have a lot of family; neither does Terry.  His is in Alabama; mine is here, but we’re not close.  Since Thanksgiving is Terry’s favorite holiday, last year, we decided to have my mom over for dinner.  Then we found out my friend Kasmira and her husband didn’t have [...]

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