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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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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               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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make fries… but please note that if you were heston blumenthal* – world renowned, 3 michelin starred chef of ‘the fat duck‘ you would do this: Heston Blumenthal’s Triple Cooked Chips put a pot of water on to a bare boil cut the potatoes into 1/2 inch strips simmer until just cooked through – you […]

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we love scallops.� and i love truffled anything.� so i was wondering if the two could hang together in the same way that ‘fennel pollen and pork‘ seem to do so well.� the answer, i am happy to say�is a big,�luscious mouthful of yesssss. ‘whole foods‘ had the most beautiful scallops i’d seen in awhile.� […]

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eating down the house.� continued… i read a fair few blogs and am constantly inspired by these people who understand food so well.� it certainly makes cooking easier on me.� tonight i riffed off one of my all-time fave blogs, smitten kitchen and enlisted a touch of help from minimally invasive (orange zest/pimenton = wow). […]

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here was sunday night’s dinner which was actually quite wonderful despite the photo.� the potatoes were� csa yukons – small one’s – boiled and then flattened and then put in a hot pan with some olive oil for about 3 minutes a side as recently seen in the ny times mag ‘potato tostones’ recipe.� i […]

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