Dinner Partying

21Apr08

Ever since we moved into our new house I’ve wanted to have a dinner party, but I had no dining room chairs and every room was filled with cardboard boxes spilling out into the hallways. The list of people I was promising to invite to this imagined dinner party kept growing, while my prospects [...]

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Tags: asparagus tart, cooking, dinner party, eating, fennel stuffed pork loin, food, gezellig, ikea, polenta, pork loin, prince in the shower, roasted tomatoes, roasted yellow peppers, shiitake mushrooms, truffled polenta

Briny Vastness

17Apr08

Oysters are important–they taste like the ocean, like the dumb mouths of fish going open, close, open, close, and sand in my sheets at night. They taste like a briny vastness, like sex and fresh air. The first time I had oysters on the half shell was when I was seventeen years old and in [...]

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Tags: Bloody Mary, eating, food, New Orleans, Oysters

Breakfast For the Win!

08Apr08

The breakfasts continue! I have come to the realization that neglecting that espresso machine was a horrible thing to do. I did not realize that I virtually have a coffee bar sitting on my kitchen counter. I plan on drinking espresso until my heart explodes from all the caffeine. It is so delicious, and it’s [...]

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Tags: Barefoot Contessa, breakfast, cooking, eggs, food, herbs, Ina Garten, The Velvet Underground

Breakfast of Champions

07Apr08

I am not a natural breakfast eater, despite the fact that I’m thoroughly aware of the benefits of regular breakfast consumption. Breakfast usually seems like an unnecessary prelude to the real food, lunch. Lunch is Reuben’s and enchiladas and bowls of soup, breakfast is cold cereal and yogurt, neither of which repulse me but neither [...]

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Tags: breakfast, cooking, eating, eggs, food, kombucha, probiotics, the books

For the love of little ears

07Apr08

My favorite pasta, currently and by far, is orecchiette, i.e. “little ears” of Puglian origin. The relatively dense, roughly hewn domes hold sauce well and have an excellent toothiness to them. The first time I had it was at Boccaccia, a local restaurant here in Chattanooga, TN which also happens to be my current place [...]

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Tags: Boccaccia, Chattanooga, cooking, food, goat cheese, greens, olives, Orecchiette, pasta