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Just got done with cooking Caper-Rosemary Tuna from the August issue. This was amazingly good. The capers and lemon were a great complement to the rosemary ( I could have never imagined rosemary paired with fish), and everything went well with the Tuna. It was great…
Best of all – it wasn’t particularly hard. Just a simple [...]

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Back to the cherry-ice-cream and the August recipe. My valiant attempt at ice-cream froze into a congealed lump. I decided to bravely soldier on – and let it defrost for a little bit. I melted the chocolates and toasted the almonds.
The ice-cream was an utter disaster. It was way too watered down ( my fault) [...]

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With a frozen rock of ice-cream waiting for me in the fridge, it was time to move onto the July cover and attempt cheddar burgers with balsamic onions and chipotle ketchup. First off I made an executive decision and decided to buy store-bought burgers. I’m really partial to the “Angus Burgers” sold at Fred Meyer/Safeway – [...]

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Well the September issue has arrived – and with it an onset of Panic. This issue officially puts me 4 issues behind ( raspberry cupcakes, chipoltle ketchup hamburger, dark-chocolate ice-cream, and now chicken parmesan). I resolve to end the week with at least 2 out of 4 done ! I quickly embark on a trip [...]

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Yes – I realize I’m way behind at this point. Funny how a resolution always starts to slide after the first six months ? Anyway – June’s recipe was a sour-cherry pie with a lattice crust.
It was a bit of a stretch to find sour-cherries in the Pacific Northwest in early May ( when the [...]

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I was so excited when I saw this cover. I *love* steak frites. I remember having this several years ago in a psuedo-bistro in NYC ( “lucky-strike” was the name ?). Anyway what could be better than this ?
The hardest part here was the french-fries. I bought a fry-cutter, and a deep-fryer at Target. However [...]

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Yes – I realize I haven’t updated for a while… been busy ! Well I do have a bunch of recipes backing up, so expect a blizzard of posts.
I’ve decided to skip the April issue… I just didn’t have it in me to cook raspberry cupcakes. April was a huge dissapointment – there was no [...]

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Finally onto the sandwich ! It was pretty straightforward once I had all the ingredients. Perhaps the only difficult part was grilling the sandwich. I especially bought a cast-iron grill to use on my stove. It didn’t come out magazine-cover perfect but what does ?
How is it ? I admit that I was all prepared [...]

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OK – after the brining and the flip and stir – finally I’m cooking something. You have to appreciate a recipe that is basically about boiling meat in guinness for a few hours ! 
I also did the guinness mustard, and the boiled vegetables. The end result was great. The vegetables are wonderful, much better than [...]

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OK – perhaps I’m being a bit too serialistic on the updates. But I just flipped the corned-beef and stirred it ! What does 4 days of beef that’s been brining in beer and pickle spices smell like ? Definitely a little funky but in a fun and smelling-good kind of way. Can’t wait to cook [...]

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