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Posts from ‘November, 2011’

Chicken and Fruity Goop

  Hi all, here is a recipe I made up somewhat on the fly recently, using a Googled recipe for some Carribean fruit-covered chicken as a foundation. My measurements will not be exact, as I more or less tossed shit in the sauce and kept tasting until it tasted the way I wanted. It ended [...]

Curried Butternut Squash Soup

FIRST POST! HI EVERYBODY! Okay, lameness over, if you’ve been following my tweets, to soothe my angst over student loans and photography, I’ve been throwing myself into making lots of food. Gloria reminded me of this blog’s existence, and today I’ll share with you a pretty simple curried butternut squash soup that I thought up [...]

Lamb Kapama

This is a dish I first had at Cava Mezze where it is absolutely to die for; it is also pretty good at Plaka Grill. Recipe-googling produced quite a few variations on the basic idea (lamb stewed in a rich tomato sauce) but I wanted it like I’d had it in the restaurants: with orzo. [...]

Roasted Brussels Sprouts

Ewwwwwww, brussel sprouts are gross!! Why do brussels sprouts have such a bad rap? Is it because they, unlike spinach, never had a Popeye-like character to extol their virtues to the public? I have so much love for brussels sprouts, but when I offer to bring them over people generally look at me blankly or [...]