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Individual Fresh Berry Gratins

June 16, 2009

I had all these fresh strawberries and a desire to make a relatively easy dessert from them. I found this recipe in the current issue of Cook’s Illustrated. Little did I know such a simple recipe could be so fraught with epic fail. I wanted a mixture of berries, so I retrieved some blackberries and [...]

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Seafood Paella

June 15, 2009

I first encountered a paella recipe 25 years ago, in The New York Times 60-Minute Gourmet by Pierre Franey, one of the books I used at the beginning of my continuing Great Cooking Adventure. It appeared to have all of the necessary elements: sausage, chicken, shrimp, clams, rice, and saffron (available only in powdered form, [...]

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Game Hens Broil-Roasted in Wine with a Giant Straw Potato Galette

June 13, 2009

This is another old-school Julia Child recipe, from the Julia Child and More Company cookbook — a collection of recipes from the television series of the same name. It replaced the pork tenderloin dinner as my go-to for impressing guests or the new girlfriend (including She Who Must Not Be Named and She Who Must [...]

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Market Futures

June 13, 2009

Another shopping day at the Union Square Farmer’s Market. It was sunny today, so all the food tourists were out. I kept tripping over leashes — shouldn’t dogs be kept away from the food? Fortunately the lack of canine etiquette was a mere distraction from the greater variety available this week. Here’s what I scored: [...]

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What Are We Buying?

June 10, 2009

The day after I posted about the Union Square Farmer’s Market, I saw this infographic, courtesy of The Onion: I could have purchased any of those items — with the exception of the cheese popcorn — but I decided to pass. Besides, I’ve run out of display space for all of my genital-shaped gourds.

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Pork Wellington

June 8, 2009

This happens to me sometimes: I buy some meat with the vague notion “I’ll cook something with it,” which is then followed by an episode of Good Eats addressing my purchase. In this case it was pork tenderloin (on sale, 50% off) and the “Tender is the Pork” episode, which featured preparations for grilled pork [...]

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To Market, To Market

June 6, 2009

The Union Square Farmer’s Market opened for the season today. My summer Saturday ritual now begins: Up at 8, quick breakfast, walk down the hill to the market, and buy vegetables, fruit, and meat with an eye toward the week’s meal planning. I’ve been doing this for the three years the market has been running, [...]

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Singh for Your Science

June 5, 2009

Simon Singh, British author of Fermat’s Last Theorem, The Code Book, and Big Bang, is being sued by the British Chiropractic Association for daring to suggest that there is no evidence supporting the use of chiropractic to treat childhood conditions. He is, of course, correct. Chiropractic is utter bullshit with no theoretical framework to support [...]

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Nomenclature

June 4, 2009

She Who Must Be Obeyed informed me that I have not been referring to our son correctly in these posts. I have been using “He Who Must Not Be Ignored,” when, in fact, the more accurate description is “He Who Will Not be Ignored.” The former implies I have a choice in the matter, the [...]

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100 Posts

June 3, 2009

Yesterday’s post was number 100: Woo hoo! I’m not posting every day as originally planned, but an average of 20 a month isn’t too shabby. I’ll try to step up the frequency a bit, as long as the pesky job/child/wife/life don’t get in the way.

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