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Website: http://threeforks.wordpress.com

Location: CT

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Favorite foods: too many to list here...

Last bite on earth: a perfectly ripe and luscious peach

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Hi, I'm threeForks. threeForks is a play on "three quarks for muster mark" from Finnegan's Wake, which my dad suggested would be a good name for my food blog. See, I'm a 25-year-old physics grad student who happens to be slightly obsessed with food, so I got a secret (nerdy) kick out of the indirect reference to quarks. These days, I dropped the muster mark bit, but threeForks stuck, and seems to work well enough.

I live in Connecticut, and am anxiously waiting for the farmer's market to open. In the meantime, I shop at a zillion different places for as much locally-produced stuff as I can find and afford on a grad student's budget, and spend entirely too much time coming up with new and exciting recipes to try. I travel a lot, and my partner's Australian, so I'm essentially up for experimenting with any cuisine possible. SE is a great source of inspiration, and I really appreciate the all the work that goes into it!

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Eating for Two: How Do You Love Sardines, Tell Me All the Ways

I love them in a pasta dish I make with canned sardines, raisins, pine nuts, fresh or sun-dried tomatoes, sauteed garlic, onions, and spinach. It's quick, simple, and really, really good.

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Essentials: Roasted Brussels Sprouts

This is, hands down, probably one of my favorite ways of cooking brussels sprouts. I occasionally throw the end results into some kind of simple pasta with sausage, peppers, and asiago, or just eat them straight from the pan. Yum.

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Kale: The Leafy Green Monster

Colcannon (an Irish dish that combines mashed potatoes with kale or cabbage) is a pretty good option. I have a recipe here that's pretty simple. I'm thinking the kale version will be prettier than the one I made, though! http://threeforks.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/simplest-thing-in-the-world/

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Trail of Crumbs'

Chocolate. Always chocolate.

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Cook the Book: Win a Copy of 'Cook with Jamie'

My father taught me to cook, though he didn't set out to do so. I'd watch him play with different flavors and textures in the kitchen and turn them into all sorts of fantastic dishes, and I find myself doing the same thing now.

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Eating for Two: How Do You Love Sardines, Tell Me All the Ways

i love sardines right out of the can. i eat one can everyday and i savor it.
delicately picking out the bone and eating bite by slow bite... i practically lick the can.

i've discovered that in order to get good sardines you've got to pay for them. the cheap ones have more of a fishiness that i don't like. i buy norwegian brislings. mediterranean style is my favorite. i've discovered that everyday i actually feel better after i eat them. they really help me stay alert for the rest of the day. i felt an instance high after the first time i ate them, so i've been hooked every since.

i've tried doing recipes and mixing them in salads but honestly, i love em plain and that's how i only eat them from now on.

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I'm Rosezilla (named for my three year old daughter and the giant lizard thing that stomped Tokyo...it's what I call her when she's being...how you say...willful). My real handle is Mandy. I live in Santa Barbara County again after growing up here, but lived for 11 years in western Sonoma County...home of fabulous food and wines. It spoiled me rotten, to become an adult surrounded by all of that luscious produce and foodie opportunity. I managed a microbrewery's kitchen for 6 years, and have SERIOUS opinions about ales, should anyone care for them. Now I'm a home cook primarily, although I do a little catering here and there. My daughter's favorite foods are salmon and broccoli, so I feel as though I've triumphed a bit over the three-year-old beige-food diet. We do, however, eat at McDonald's every Friday after school...it's our little Happy Meal indulgence...and those tiny cheeseburgers are SOOO good. I live with and cook for my mother, as well. I am dating a high school band director, who has actually LOST weight being with me, as he's eating more asparagus and less fast food. I think that size 14 should be the new size 6. I am curvy, healthy, happy and active...and think that excellent foods should be part of everyone's diet. I am active in the "S'Cool Food" movement here, which tries to bring local and sustainable healthy food into school cafeterias. And I love, love, love this website.

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Eating for Two: How Do You Love Sardines, Tell Me All the Ways

guess what I make a living out of them. I do product development for a certain brand in asia. But eversince I started working on it, I stopped eating them at home. C'mon give me a break, they're everywhere at work. =) I want to eat something else. lol.

I'm not sure if you're familiar with fried sardines but they're great on toasts and on rice as well. One can eat it right off the can or bottle (yes, there are bottled sardines). But for the tomoto sauce based sardines, I'd rather heat them first and add some lemon or a bit of soy sauce.

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@alacto-- I grew up in Williamsburg! If you're still there, I'm quite jealous of your accessibility to Aroma's. I was a slave at the Cheese Shop for a few years, and while I can't stand the house dressing any more, oh the cheese and wine selection....mmmmm

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Bro recently made these avocado eggrolls for a party. They are wonderful. We didn't use a sauce - no one noticed :D.

Whip 'em up and bring 'em down to the party!!

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@kfarrel3: Hope you're enjoying Florence! I miss Antico Noe sandwiches so much :(

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Mrs. L, a, ahem, 40 something (at least for two more weeks) who is just learning to cook and dealing with the fact that I own over 500 cookbooks (over 400 that have never been cooked from!). I live in San Jose CA and I see dead people for a living (no really, I manage a cremation business). I love serious eats to help me find out what's going on in the food world and to make me feel even more behind cuz I cook recipes I see here rather than open up one of my many cookbooks!

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@NC Terry - I looooooooooove Zingerman's! Love love love! You have the best job.

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Hi,

I just found this wonderful site -- I found a link at FoodNetwork.com. I live in New Hampshire, love cooking and experimenting with new types of dishes. As a cook, I've gone from a repeating 15-20 dishes to new dishes everyday (or so).

I'm particulary found of Ellie Krieger's Healthy Appetite, Ina Garten's Barefoot Contessa.

I also collect cookbooks - and my favorite right now (non-FoodNetwork) is Gordon Hamersley's Bistro Cooking At Home. Gordon owns a local Bistro in nearby Boston.

Looking forward to a long association with you all!

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Whewps... I forgot to mention we live in rural Oklahoma (about an hour away from Tulsa and Fayetteville, Arkansas).