oh lobel’s. how do i love thee? let me count the ways… i’ve reached a point in my life where if i’m going to buy a slab of meat it’s going to have to be of serious quality. luckily in the nashville area we have some really good farmers raising the kind of meat i […]

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ok. this was good. as in very good. as in i won’t go all yoplait ad on you, but this was another definite do-over. and the sooner the better. i take very little credit as this plate of pasta was nothing more than a blend of: the latest post from rachel eats‘ blog, along with […]

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poached egg sitting on a caesar salad with bottarga… grilled fresh mozzarella with crisped speck and basil…

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               my rss feeder broke.  and i didn’t realize it for 3 months.  mostly because i (still) don’t even understand what exactly an rss feeder is, or what it does – talk about being oh so techno savvy… but my stat’s were dropping off and well, try as i might to just ignore the cold […]

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i’ve been seeing this dish around.  and then i spotted it on ruhlman’s blog .  and that was pretty much it for me.  call it a defining moment – but i’d already been tempted, and now this pasta had to happen in my kitchen – and soon.  i immediately began mentally preping the raviolo’s by going through the ‘mise’ in my […]

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i read about ‘orangette’s’ brussels shuffle, and the description of her market breakfast was more than i could stand I should begin by saying this: do not underestimate the combined power of fresh goat cheese, honey, and olives. (Or spicy olives, to be specific, coated in something akin to harissa.) It is the trifecta…. so […]

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the long title is really more of a substitution for the lack of photograph.� due to a technical glitch which i neither understand nor care to discuss, i am as devastated as a food blogger could be.� the most wonderful dinner – sans picture.� so the following description is the equivalent of me saying, ‘ok, […]

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