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On hosting dinner

By On April 10, 2011 · 2 Comments

One of my 11 in ’11 goals was to host dinner once every quarter. So far I’ve managed. They might not have been super fancy parties where people were specifically invited, but still they were nice dinners with someone other than ourselves.

Just before the first quarter was over my dad stayed at our [...]

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home made gnocchi di patate with pesto, photo by Laurens de Vries of www.laurens.com

Gnocchi

By On March 4, 2011 · 12 Comments

Gnocchi (plural, pronounched njok-key, with a short-sounded o, the singular is gnocco – njok-koe) are little carb-clouds from heaven.  Mix some carbs with a bunch of other carbs and you get something so incredibly tasty, that you wonder why anyone, ever, would choose to omit carbs from their diets.

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Frozen pasta and a steak

By On November 10, 2010 · 1 Comment

“You defrosted this very well”, my dad joked, when he started on his ravioli. He had seen me take a bag of ravioli from the freezer. He didn’t realize I made it myself and froze it myself.

I told him and he still liked it - though he thought his joke was even funnier.

 When we made my [...]

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Spaghetti alla Carbonara

By On August 1, 2010 · 9 Comments

Yes, yes, I know, I’ve been a bad, bad food blogger for the last while. Not because I don’t want to post, but because besides the ice cream cake I posted before this, I really haven’t done much serious cooking. It stinks, I know, but what can you do. I’ve been working [...]

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Awesome aprons (and a giveaway link)

By On June 15, 2010 · 16 Comments

While browsing Foodblogs, I ran into a blog about aprons. Really really cute aprons. And an apron giveaway. Now I don’t wear aprons even remotely often enough. This generally leaves me with way too much laundry, as all my clothes get flour or sauce stained when I’m baking or making a big [...]

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