From the monthly archives:

October 2010

Photos-only Fridays – Boozy apple cake

29 October 2010

This cake is more about the apples and the rum than anything else. Yum! Bon appétit et bon weekend!

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Butternut squash risotto with a prosciutto chip

25 October 2010

I have a mild prejudice against butternut squash risotto. It’s so… done. Which is not to say that any dish on this website is completely new-fangled, original, creative, and whatever else. Or even remotely any of those things. For the most part, it’s just dinner. I do love dinner. But not when it’s so overdone. […]

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Photos-only Fridays – Pho Ga

15 October 2010

Also known as Vietnamese chicken noodle soup. So, so good. Bon appétit et bon weekend!

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Chermoula-roasted halibut

13 October 2010

One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish. Two fish, three fish, blue fish, green fish. Green fish? Oh me! Oh my! One of them is not like the others, But don’t ask us why. Go ask your mothers. I love Dr. Seuss, even if I can’t do parody. Sigh.

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Photos only Fridays – Tartelette à la moutarde

8 October 2010

Une petite tartelette à la moutarde, recipe courtesy of Dorie Greenspan’s Around My French Table, made by MF courtesy of participation in French Fridays with Dorie. A savory tart (think quiche) with carrots, leeks, rosemary, and mustard mixed into the custard base, all that needs to be said about this is that it was spectacular! Bon […]

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Orecchiette with roasted pearl onions, sausage + fennel

6 October 2010

I can’t possibly be the only person who, upon arriving home at ten or eleven at night, decides that now is the perfect time to cook. Regardless of how long or arduous of a day it’s been, it is nice to move around a bit at night, and it’s particularly nice when that moving is […]

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Gougères!

1 October 2010

I’m participating in a group activity! Oh this is so exciting! Seven hundred of my soon-to-be favorite cooking/interwebbing buddies (I hope!) and I are cooking our way through Dorie Greenspan’s fabulous new cookbook, Around My French Table. For our first effort, we’re welcoming each other to our hundreds of respective tables with that most classic […]