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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 […]

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Summer’s over

9 September 2010

And this blog is not forgotten. It’s just taken a little rest. September can be hard! I hate summer often, but its end can be so sad. The tomatoes, the eggplant, all that zucchini, and especially those times for lingering over coffee, only partially drunk because it will soon be time for lunch, those times […]

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Happy Mama’s Day!

9 May 2010

I think my own mother would hate these, but pink and green does seem the right color scheme for Mommy’s Day.

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Shrimp gougères

1 May 2010

Way-uh ah the hors d’oeuvres? We were standing on the rooftop of a ladies’ club, and I did not have the answer to this burning question. There was white wine, a few mixed drinks, some crudités. Who dunks raw cauliflower in Ranch Dressing and eats it? There were no hors d’oeuvres. For the types of […]

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Green is good

22 March 2010

There is an Italian restaurant off Pimlico Road in London that sits squarely in the old-school. It has a nouveau Milano-type décor with black, white, red leather, and a Sloane ranger-type clientele that matches. The staff are brusque, noisy, and not that nice, unless you’ve ordered the most expensive wine on the list. In the […]

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Mama’s cheese nips

19 March 2010

I like to think I am a competent cook. It could also be that I am terrible at following recipes, which is certainly the case, and sometimes people think that those who don’t use recipes are competent. So I could just be believing the stories other people tell me. But I digress. If I am […]

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I like you

1 March 2010

If you’re visiting my site and I don’t know you, then let me tell you: I like you. Thank you so much for visiting! If you’re visiting my site and I do know you, then you probably do not need me to tell you that I like you. But I can still thank you so […]

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