January 2011
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back to baking
i’m so sorry, baking. i have neglected you for a while, but i promise i won’t EVER AGAIN! i could blame it on a lack of inspiration or a sudden urge to get healthy (less than 3 months until your wedding day will do that to a girl) - but i don’t have a good reason. and then it struck me - muffins! i haven’t made muffins yet! and after a particularly random trip to tk maxx...
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foodie sunday lunch
this past sunday, our friend jess cooked a gourmet three course lunch for phil and i. she really went all out with the menu, creating some really beautiful and amazing dishes for us to feast on. normally when we go over to friends’ houses for a meal, it’s quite a task. between phil not eating meat and me not eating cow’s dairy, eggs and soy, the options are limited.
luckily we...
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love for nigella
in this day and age of chefs as celebrities and whole channels devoted to cooking, i’m sure we all have a favorite. i tend to go back and forth between a few different household names (mark bittman, hugh fearnley-whittingstall, jamie oliver) but i’ll always have love for nigella lawson. in fact, before i actually got cooking in the kitchen myself, i watched her cooking shows and...
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cool with kale
kale is one of the only locally grown vegetables this time of year, and frankly, by february we’re sick of it. but i’m here today to encourage you to rethink the curly green goodness. don’t think of it as cabbage - that will only evoke thoughts of bland, tasteless food of a bygone era. instead, let’s look at all the great things kale has to offer. and believe me, there are...
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missing ingredients
don’t you just hate it when a recipe doesn’t come together? i started out last night’s dinner with all but two of the ingredients - we improvised to make up the rest, but it certainly didn’t come out the way i had planned.
the items in question were capers and horseradish sauce. i know i’ve used both in my kitchen before, and assumed the little jars would still be...
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It's Gonna Be a Good Year
Happy new year! It has been almost a month since I last posted, and what a month it has been. First, I had a suspected case of swine flu that lasted a miserable week and a half. Then the Christmas season started early with Phil’s family here in London, followed by a pleasant surprise that our flight to America wasn’t canceled after all (seriously, 3 inches of snow should never cause...