Where’d we leave off? Oh right, Diana and I had eaten the meal of our lives at Chez Panisse, taken a cab there and back, and gotten to bed decidedly too late. Like, way too late. As in 12:30 a.m. California time which was 2:30 a.m. Chicago time, which is where my brain was. A [...]
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Spring is, quite possibly, my favorite time of year. Besides the longer days, warmer weather, and everyone’s general better mood, the produce is just fantastic. After months and months of potatoes, hard squashes, root vegetables, and other things that grow underground, Spring brings about things that are green. Not just green, but that delicious bright [...]
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What a day! There’s nothing like a lot of humidity at a county fair full of prize-winning animals to make for a necessary shower at the end of the day! Last year, our day at the county fair fell on my birthday. This year, being the day BEFORE my birthday, I made sure to walk [...]
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Sometimes, I go to the grocery store with the best intentions. “Yeah, I’m going to pick out some stuff that looks great, and cook dinner tonight” even though it was eleventy thousand degrees today, and I’m exhausted. Sometimes I think I’m going to pick up some shortcuts, but still really cook a meal myself. You [...]
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I’d been looking forward to June 26 for a long time. Besides the fact that it was my dad’s birthday (happy late birthday Dad!), it was the scheduled night for our bi-monthly meeting of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pans! We decided at our last meeting that our next culinary stop would be Latin America, [...]
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Hey all! I’ve officially survived the first day of camp… there were no meltdowns, no accidents, lots of bowling, and a lot of fun. I know you’ve been waiting since last August for another one of these, so here goes… Today’s CAMPER QUOTE OF THE DAY! Two 5 year old girls walk in this morning, [...]
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I’ve talked a few other times about “recipe trust”. You know, those people that, when they send you a recipe, you know it must be tried? I’ve got a few people that I trust unconditionally when it comes to recipes. Well, my mom is one of those people. I don’t know that there’s ever been [...]
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There are very few things that really intimidate me to cook. One of them used to be Indian food, but I conquered that one a while ago. Another one is shellfish, namely clams and mussels, as I’m freaked out that I’ll do it wrong and end up giving both Adam and I food poisoning. Another, [...]
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My senior year of college, my mom and I went out to Denver to visit my sister in culinary school. It was on that trip that I discovered the importance of hydration at higher altitudes, the importance of having a destination in mind when setting out for dinner, and the true wonder that are fish [...]
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