Posted on November 27th, 2011 by iamnotachef
So…what’s the big deal about turkey? I roasted one for Thanksgiving (the first in several years) and while it’s a pleasant tasting fowl — especially when it’s loaded down with herbs and copious amounts of a butter and Chardonnay baste — it simply isn’t worth
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Posted on August 16th, 2011 by iamnotachef
I rarely link to other blogs, but saw this via the New York Times and immediately realized that both of my readers need this information!
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Posted on July 26th, 2011 by iamnotachef
I’m getting tired of being told what to eat. I am getting tired of the assumption, made, apparently, by all of our elected officials and now Mark Bittman, that I am too stupid and ignorant to decide for myself what is best for me and worst for me and what makes me happy. And I [...]
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Posted on July 4th, 2011 by iamnotachef
Posted on February 10th, 2011 by iamnotachef
I will cheerfully admit that I am bored with salmon. Oh, climb down off your pedestal and stop being critical; I have probably eaten more of the stuff than you. Remember, I lived in Northern California for too many years, and salmon is, or at least used to be plentiful,
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Posted on January 7th, 2011 by iamnotachef
I used chicken stock to help liquefy a marinade that I made, and I mentioned it to Tommy, of the justifiably famous tommy:eats. He commented that he has become more inclined to move away from commercial stock, in part because of his taste tests
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Posted on December 25th, 2010 by iamnotachef
Posted on October 29th, 2010 by iamnotachef
Wow. WOW. WOW! Every once in a while, a wine is everything one expects. And, rarely, it is even more. Well, last night, Paul Draper made me a very happy man. He has been making Ridge wines for more than 40 years, and I have been drinking them for about 30 of those. He knows [...]
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Posted on October 27th, 2010 by iamnotachef
I got an e-mail recently from a friend who berated me for not writing about the excellent produce season. While I am not the biggest fan of fruits and vegetables as anything other than a supporting cast to the lead actor: meat, I love tomatoes. But not those silly ersatz tomatoes from the supermarket. I [...]
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Posted on September 22nd, 2010 by iamnotachef
I have to give her credit — she knows her stuff. How to cook a potato is not something that I have worried about in a very long time, but I noticed a different technique in one of Ina’s recipes for potato salad. Instead of boiling the little buggers
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