Monthly Archives: June 2008
Kielbasa & Kale
This is a childhood dish of comfort for me and last night, I made it for The Gourmand. It’s my dad’s recipe and nothing like it exists online, as far as I could find. In my dad’s words, “you could…
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Recession Special
The Gourmand & I calculated how much $$$ we’ve been spending at the farmer’s market, and then how much money we spend on take out (as a result of laziness and exhaustion at the end of long work days) and…
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The State of “Food”
The Gourmand & I do not have cable. When we have access to cable, we are only interested in a handful of channels and on those, only a handful of shows, namely Good Eats on the Food Network, and Dirty…
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Oh, Savannah!
I have a new love, and her name is Savannah, Georgia. We fell in love over food, she being the foodiest city in the United States, in my estimation. The Gourmand & I went for a weekend to interview the…
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Off to the South
The Gourmand & the Peasant will be exploring the Belle of the South. A FULL report when we return. In the meantime, test one of our recipes and let us know how your results turned out! xoxo
Quel dommage. An hommage to Julia.
Quel dommage Catastrophie! Big ideas – wasted BURNED! Smoke filled apartment. Oh no. So sad. Four Seasons hot dogs from bike messenger friend But what to make? Marcella Hazan pasta carbonara con gnocchi! Farmer’s market peas Reducing wine reducing… reducing……
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Don’t Forget the Lemon
I have a collection of recipes that I have clipped from the pages of the New York Times for years. The other night, I was looking for something to do with organic chicken parts that I had bought at the…
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On Blackening Fish
For one dinner last week, The Gourmand decided to recreate our wedding dinner. Just the main course really, Blackened Mahi-Mahi with Grilled Pineapple Salsa. It is my favorite dinner in the world and, when it was done and the smoke…
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