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I’ll Give You a Thirty-Minute Meal

Posted in Legitimate Thirty-Minute Meals, tagged , , , on August 31, 2005 | 8 Comments »

This is what a genuine thirty-minute meal looks like.
Dinner at the Disdain manse this evening was a colorful, healthy, economical, and realistic dish of whole wheat pasta with chard and toasted pine nuts, prepared in twenty-nine minutes and change. It did not involve any wacky uses of convenience foods, nominal dressing-up of prepared items, juggling [...]

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Posted in Uncategorized on August 30, 2005 | Leave a Comment »

Now that I’ll be blogging more semi-regularly, I decided to turn Comments on. I initially thought to restrict it to Blogger users, to avoid “How can you hate Random Annoying Celebrity Chef?! He/She ROCKS! You’re only jealous because you’re not as cute/can’t properly fillet a marmot/are an insufferable snob/etc. Your recipes [...]

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Biscotti From a Celebrity Chef I Don’t Hate

Posted in Desserts, tagged , , , on August 30, 2005 | Leave a Comment »

As an antidote to the previous post, I thought I’d post a modified recipe from a celebrity chef I don’t hate: Todd English.
Known for his Mediterranean-inspired cuisine and his string of restaurants in Boston, Todd English has co-authored a couple of cookbooks: The Olives Table, a nice collection of fairly fancy but still inventive and [...]

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Getting Down to Business

Posted in Celebrity Chefs I Hate on August 30, 2005 | 15 Comments »

Sorry about the gap in blogging. It isn’t that I haven’t had plenty of random thoughts; it’s just that I was still in the middle of sorting through the detritus of careers, not to mention a cross-country move. Now that things have started to settle a bit, it’s finally time to live up to my [...]

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