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Cooking - Attempting the Truffled Egg Toast
On our last two visits to New York City, Tawn and I have fallen in love with a small panini shop and wine bar in Greenwich Village called 'ino. The ambience is fantastic, the service is friendly, and most importantly th… -
Baking Magnolia's Vanilla Cupcakes
Baking project! Tawn's aunt had her 70-somethingth birthday celebration today so even though I was not going to attend, I helped prepare two dozen cupcakes. Tawn prepared brownies, too, but since he made those, not I,… -
New Year's Eve Food
What better way to start the new year (not to mention, what better first post to write) than to prepare some good food? While Tawn was away at his family's annual New Year's Eve party and didn't return home until ten mi… -
Lasagna Bolognese from Scratch
Weeks ago, a group of Tawn's university friends conspired to hold their holiday dinner on Christmas Eve. "It's a potluck," they said. "Everyone should bring something!" For whatever reason, I decided a lasagna would b… -
Prep Work
As I mentioned in a previous post, Tawn and I are hosting a potluck Thanksgiving party on Saturday. While it is a "potluck" in name, in reality I am still doing quite a bit of cooking.Originally, I offered to make the t… -
Home Fried Chicken and Mashed Potatoes
Frying foods at home is one of those "beyond my comfort zone" aspects of frying. It tends to make a mess and smells up the house. More than a year ago I tried a cold oil method to fry French fries, and that turned out… -
Chocolate Raspberry Torte
A little bit more about the cake I baked for my 40th birthday. For all the cooking I do, I don't have a lot of experience with cakes and cake-like desserts. I'm more of a bread man, myself. Nonetheless, I decided to m… -
A Little Weekend Food Porn
While my third attempt at macadamia nut cream pie chills in the refrigerator, I thought I'd share a few pictures of other things I've recently cooked.In Hong Kong, my host Dr. Chris prepared a sesame seed encrusted salmo… -
Dinner Party at Chris and Antony's House
While in Hong Kong, I stayed with a friend I first met some fifteen years ago, also named Chris. He and his partner Antony are dear people, just wonderful to visit with. They also live in a gorgeous flat in the western… -
Dinner with the Mac Cream Pie
Before leaving for Hong Kong, I wrote about my second attempt baking a macadamia nut cream pie. I didn't, however, share the rest of the meal.Preceding the pie we had a nice mixed green salad along with homemade focacci…
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