yes, cicerchie. i know. you’ve probably never heard of it. well perhaps you have. but it was certainly new to me. a google search tells me that it dates back from roman times and was a common dish of peasants.. luckily i came across a package of these and now i am thinking that they’re […]

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  i used tilapia. o’charley’s perpetual "catch of the day". and really,  it’s a nothing kind of fish. farmed. not terribly exciting, yet i buy it all the time. tilapa is inexpensive. you can’t seem to overcook this fish. it crisps up with minimal oil. and it goes well with almost anything and everything. it’s […]

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i made this a few weeks ago and now the heirloom tomatoes in nashville are all but gone. perhaps some of you way up north are still harvesting the tail end of your crops, but it’s OVA here in the south. and it is indeed sad. but this is how the world works and i have been able […]

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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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so… perhaps fresh linguine is ‘wrong’ for this dish,  i mean there are so many pastas and so little time to figure out exactly what goes with what or even more importantly – what doesn’t…. and perhaps the italian food gods are looking down on me and wondering what the hell i was thinking because spaghetti would have […]

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i just wrote an entire post on this dish, hit publish and IT WAS LOST FOREVER.  and now i wanna literally cry because well, i’m tired.  and other stuff.  but i took a long time writing this post and i thought it was kinda good, and with a ton of links… but dear readers, i just can’t recreate […]

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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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