You know how some family traditions don’t even really look like family traditions until you get some distance from them? If it’s just what everyone does, you don’t even notice. I’ve said before that I never really felt Italian until I left New Jersey; after leaving the East Coast entirely, I’ve felt more [...]
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Posted in personal | 2 Comments »>Hash browns.
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Bette’s is one of those places that’s crowded even on slow days, sitting right in the middle of the brunch culture around here, Bette’s and Mama’s and Rick & Ann’s and Lois the Pie Queen, a handful of other places. This particular Saturday, three days before Christmas in the [...]
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Posted in personal | 3 Comments »>Holiday meals prepared in a two-day period: two. (One for our Christmas Eve party, and one for just the two of us on Christmas Day.)
Familiar standby recipes used: three. (Gingersnap cookies for the party, flank steak and roasted root vegetables for us.)
Familiar standby recipes tweaked into new and exciting variations: two. (For [...]
Another new recipe victory last night! Not nearly as fancy as the last one, but really satisfying. I have this cookbook, China Express, that I bought just after graduating from college and have been in love with ever since. I used to cook from it a lot more, and my basic marinades [...]
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Posted in personal | 2 Comments »>It’s been difficult, these last few months, reading the webjournals of friends who are doing this “fifty new recipes in 2006″ thing. Janet and Julia and Peter are making posole and moroccan spaghetti squash and chocolate meringues and arugula pesto and bourbon bread pudding, and Matt and I? We’re kind of calling it [...]
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