I live in Los Angeles where you can get pretty much anything you want, except for one thing I ...
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½ lb. medium shrimp
1 cup onion chunks
1 cup diagonally sliced carrots
1 cup (4 oz. ) pea pods
1 ...
1 English cucumber
1/4 lb thinly sliced smoked salmon or nova lox
Thinly sliced chives
Red caviar ...
This recipe calls for segmenting a blood orange or orange—and it also calls for a tablespoon of the ...
2 tablespoons butter
1 onion, diced
2 carrots, peeled and diced
1 apple, peeled and diced
2 ...
this is the most perfect thing for entertaining:
1 medium eggplant, peeled
2 red bell peppers, ...
1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil
1/3 cup chopped onion
1 teaspoon garlic
1 1/2 pounds red bell ...
I keep trying to figure out why the Chinese Chicken Salad served at ‘Comforts Cafe’ is so uniquely ...
I recently joined Facebook and that is another story for another time, but its relevant to what I’m ...
Merrick and I had the honor of attending a costume jewelry auction at Decades hosted by the ...
An excerpt from "Hungry for Paris"
Some ten years ago, I went to dinner one night with no ...
Yep, the kids have elevated me to the likes of Albert Einstein. Up until yesterday they thought of ...
I have never purchased a Father’s Day card...never had to! Once, I jokingly told my mother I was ...
Cole slaw is the side dish of the South, one; and mayonnaise is the glue that holds my people ...
I’ve tried several versions of Irish soda bread, but this one from Cooks Illustrated is a favorite. ...
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No, really, oh. Oh as in “Oh my, these brownies” and “Oh damn, these brownies.” Oh as “Oh I ...
I found a real treasure when I discovered “Flavors of the Arboretum: 101 Tastes of the Season” as I ...
I am half Norwegian and half Irish American. Both of my parents' families were, as you can imagine ...
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Glowing the color peachblow, I’ve just returned from subsidizing Sonoma’s Wine Country and have ...