Archive for July, 2008

4 Questions 4 Nigella Lawson

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

I’ve said it before: the single best day of my freelance writing life was the one I spent shopping and cooking with Nigella Lawson. When I started this blog — exactly one year ago today — my friend Randall asked: “Is it going to be “All Nigella, All the Time?”
“No, I answered, “but if my [...]

Tags: Mario Batali, Nigella Lawson

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Pigging Out

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

After living through a tad too much drama last summer with the cooking of a whole lamb, J and I turned to a pro this year, perusading our friend Tom McNary, the brilliant chef at Carried Away in Aptos, to perform the beast roasting. This ranks as one of our best ideas of 2008.

Tom brined [...]

Tags: Carried Away, chocolate cake squares, Flo Braker, roasting a whole pig, Tom McNary

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Dinner Party, June 2008

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Note to Self: When you get a great dinner partner, shut up and let him talk.

[photo by Dennis Lenehan]

Tags: Bobby Flay

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Pretty in Pork

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Recently Michael Ruhlman blogged about staple meals:
I’m fascinated by what America eats at home—not by what people serve at a dinner party or the latest favorite recipe they’ve found, but rather by what America’s default meals are. What are the meals you return to again and again—meals that are economical, quick, taste good, [...]

Tags: Michael Ruhlman, pork roast, stuffed pork

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