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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the vegetarian was coming by, which is always nice because well, i get to catch up with lesley and i get to ponder what mindful, masterful and meatless dinner i can come up with.  it’s funny because i eat quite a lot of vegetarian dinners but never with any great thought to the matter.  like it just might be […]

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after seeing various versions of this relish, at the very least 3 times within a short span, i began devising a dish using ingredients along these lines. ‘last night’s dinner‘ did a version over striped bass (btw – get a load of the first dish in this post of hers – a pasta to die […]

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a friend�dropped in tonight, detouring just slightly off�the path of an israeli couscous buying excursion.� i had offered to cook for her and i was fortunate that she was agreeable because these days i seem to feel an undefined�obligation to ‘nablopomo‘ my life away, relentlessly chained to both the kitchen and the computer simultaneously (a.k.a. […]

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i buy food.  often.  esoteric ingredients are my game.  a real chef would love my pantry but i’m just a mere wannabe.  yet i continue to believe that if i own all these potential elements of a dish that i will be able to transform my meals into something extraordinary.  you see, when it comes to cooking, i’m not big on technique. […]

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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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