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Choucroute Garnie

May 7, 2009
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Choucroute Garnie is a hearty Alsatian dish made from choucroute (sauerkraut), sausages, cured meats and potatoes.
Disclaimer: This is not a dish for the faint of heart. If you have heart problems, eating a heaping bowl of Choucroute Garnie will probably make them worse. Also, if you’ve looked at one of Thomas Keller’s cookbooks and [...]

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Frisée Salad with Feta and Mint Dressing

March 20, 2009
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After gorging myself for four days on a diet of fatty pork, deep fried shellfish, eggs and carbs, I felt like I needed to cleanse my insides in the same way a frat house needs to be cleaned after a raucous party. Still, the taste of New Orleans lingered in my mouth and I longed [...]

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No Recipes vol. 11

March 16, 2009
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I’m still in New Orleans eating my way through town, but I’m looking forward to getting back tomorrow so I can start playing with some of the new flavours I’ve discovered. For those of you that are new to the site, these semi-weekly roundups are where I post all the things I made that didn’t [...]

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Chicken Tsukune (Japanese chicken sausage)

February 25, 2009
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After a brief hiatus from Japanese food I’m back with some izakaya food. Izakayas are bars that in addition to the usual lineup of sakes, shochus and beers, have an eclectic menu of bar foods. They’re the kind of places Japanese salary-men hit up après-work to get hammered and fed. The menus are generally large [...]

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Winter Bean Peasant Stew

November 9, 2008
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It was cold and rainy in Manhattan yesterday and after a day spent wandering around the Chocolate Show and the Asian Contemporary Art Fair, I wanted something warm and fulfilling that wouldn’t take a lot of effort to make. Thoughts of Cassoulet and Feijoada both popped into my head but those aren’t the kind of [...]

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Kielbasa with sweet onions and lima beans

August 16, 2008
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Sorry for the long absence, but I have a good excuse or three. I was in Galveston for a few days attending a wedding (congratulations Travis and Keri!). I’ve also been having some medical issues that led to some minor surgery this past week. Nothing too serious, but it’s kept me out of the [...]

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