when ’08 rolls around i will not be baking for quite awhile. if i do, feel free to come to my house and kill me – but only because i will deserve it. baking isn’t even my thing but i can be way too easily coerced into going there. but let’s be honest here. if […]

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i rarely buy chicken, rarely order chicken when dining out and really – i rarely even like chicken. it’s kind of a ‘nothing’ food to me, almost always somewhat tasteless and uninteresting, taking on whatever sauce you throw at it. but on occasion, like once at ‘david burke and donatella’ in nyc – i’ve stumbled […]

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i know just what you’re thinking… you look at this and you wonder, where’s the bacon? and really, i’d have thought the very same thing. and i even had some speck in the freezer and bacon in the fridge – and well, i just didn’t. because this was dessert. and yes, i know what you’re […]

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(this piece was originally written for a more general audience, but i thought i’d share it with you lest it die a senseless death.) december is a mighty decadent month. it gives us a reason to dress better, shop harder – and eat a lot of food. restaurants are slammed, parties abound and your office-kitchen […]

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in keeping with my fish obsession, the next species up was the thunnus albacares – or tuna steak.� also�the one fish that cary would actually consider ordering at a restaurant on the�occasional blue moon, so i knew this dinner would be�favorably received.� just last week, jennifer from ‘last nights dinner’ had done a pork belly […]

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i guess you recognize me now as the the #1 fish cook in all the land.� as you should.� so thank you for noticing.� no less than 3 fish dishes in�10 days�with a hunk of tuna sitting in the fridge waiting on its turn tonight.� so, is there such a thing as too much fish, […]

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fish again!� hooray! and within a week of the snapper.� double hooray!� i am so very thrilled and delighted to be making fish!� an overreaction you say?� perhaps.� but i’ll be making up for�the�under abundance of�fish�eating that�had been�happening over here�- so brace yourselves because you’re going to be seeing some�heavy duty�fish cooking going on.� i […]

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