Cuisine. Culture. Commentary.
I know I wrote about Dominque Ansel Bakery yesterday but who cares – here we go again. This time, we’re talking savory. While the bakery is famous for their desserts, they serve a couple soups, salads, and sandwiches that are, apparently, not to be knocked. One such sandwich was profiled about eight months ago and…
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I bought some jalapeño chicken sausage with the intention of making some sort of jambalaya inspired rice dish. Intentions are great, but when you get home late with no time to buy any of the other necessary ingredients, intentions mean absolutely nothing. I opened up my fridge to see if there was anything I could…
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Experimenting with grilled cheese is fun. I’m a purist so I don’t believe you can add more than one non-cheese ingredient and still call it a grilled cheese. However, that doesn’t mean you can’t play around with different cheese varieties. This time, I wanted a cow’s milk Alpine cheese and went with Appenzeller Kaserei Tufertsch.…
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My Mom recently told me about a recipe she made that was a super simple version of chicken parm. It wasn’t quite simple enough for me so I tossed about half the ingredients and made parmesan crusted chicken. Mix mayo, fresh parmesan, and a bit of milk in a bowl. Thinly spread this mayo mixture…
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I love stuffed peppers but plenty of people seem to think tomatoes are totally interchangeable when it comes to a meal of filled vegetables. There are about as many stuffed tomato recipes as there are stuffed pepper recipes so there must be something good there. I didn’t want to use the same recipe I usually…
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This year was the first year I had trick or treaters. Ever. When I was younger, I was always the one going door to door for candy and once I was old enough to stay home and answer the door, my family had moved to a house that stood all by itself. No neighborhood means…
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My brother is a great eater. If you go to a restaurant with him, he’ll order the most out-there item on the menu. Vegetables pose no threat to him and strange food combinations are exciting rather than gross. But that wasn’t always the case. Growing up, my brother’s diet consisted of three items: chicken fingers,…
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Sweet peas…sweet ham. These two things often seem to come together so I figured I would throw them into a pasta dish for a quick supper. But sweet on sweet in something that’s not a dessert just ain’t my style so I wanted to create a simple recipe to make those sweet freaks happy without…
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Caramelized onions are very French and French is very sophisticated. Hence, adding caramelized onions to just about any dish will make it more sophisticated. I decided to try out this theory with a recipe I found on A Cozy Kitchen. The onions take the most time so I stuck them in a pan with olive…
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Now that I’m further from the N/R line, I go to Eataly less frequently then I used to. After some thinking (it shouldn’t have taken me this long to figure out), I realized it’s not that far of a walk from the 6 or my apartment in general if I want to get in a…
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Peaches to Apples 