the back story to this salad is so incredibly bizarre that i’ve hesitated to even tell you about it. but i’ve never been much for keeping things on the down low, so let me share with you the abridged version. this was the audition for masterchef, a new reality show coming up with gordon ramsey. […]

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t a sampling of some fresh picked wine berries, huckleberries and wild blackberries – a gift from my friend jack on my birthday last month it’s not that i’m not cooking. because i am. there are gatherings of friends and just plain hungriness resulting in well, dinner. i even sometimes whip out the nikon and snap […]

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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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and they’re completely unrelated. but i thought i’d give you two for the price of one. because i believe that you deserve two – if only because i am the slacker of all food bloggers and have miserably fallen down on my posting. and because neither dish photographed all that well. and perhaps mostly because […]

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i realize the name of this dish probably sounds a bit random and that the picture is not helping. but let me explain…

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another egg.  and it could happen again.  eggs are reason #1 as to why i could never ever consider being vegan.  of course i have countless reasons, but let’s call this the first.  and mozzarella and ricotta and parmigiano could be 2, 3 and 4.  root beer floats are 5.  and well, that’s enough for now.  oh […]

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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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