Gordon Ramsay’s In the Heat of the Kitchen has been fun to look through, but I haven’t really been able to put it to much use. Most of the recipes seem rather complex for a hectic weekday night. So...
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This past Sunday while my boyfriend drank beer and watched football, I sat next to him on the couch and drank wine and flipped through old issues of the New Yorker. All in all it was a lovely afternoon: the...
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We were having vegetables. That was a fact. The fiancée and I had spent the weekend eating crispy, fat covered carnitas which we then stuffed into homemade corn tortillas. More succulent than pulled pork, and probably three times less healthy,...
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One of the simplest little tricks I picked up this year came from Larousse Gastronomique, which taught me the wonders of a basic vinaigrette. I had always confined them to the traditional lettuce salad, but that big book urged...
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