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Clam Bisque Is For Dinner

This recipe is from the wonderful Ina Garten’s Barefoot Contessa How Easy Is That? This recipe is so totally fool proof and decadent at the same time. Look at that BUTTER! That Half & Half! CREAM! Mussles! It’s like everything I love in soup form. I don’t even want to think about [...]

Homemade Sweet Potato and Ricotta Gnocchi

I found this recipe via epicurious.com. It had rave reviews and with a bit of a modification to how I made it, it should be light, fluffy, and delicious. It really doesn’t look like much, but at least the first time, the time commitment is a lot. It took me over all 3 [...]

Tomato and Grits, via New York Times

For two consecutive weeks I’ve been drooling over recipes Sam Sifton published in the Times Magazine. The first one was the article about the late summer tomatoes. The second was the following week when he listed the makings of some cheesy grits with Summer Succotash.

One, I love tomatoes. Two, I [...]

First foray with the Momofuku cookbook

One of Ryan’s Christmas presents was a Momofuku cookbook (WSJ Review) given to him (or should I say us, ;) heh) by his sister Tracy. It’s an awesome punch of a book filled with the history of how his ramen shop went from being a little failing place to the entry way of [...]

Garlic Soup

Prompted by @sarahcarter on twitter, I made Richard Olney’s Garlic Soup recipe found on 101 Cookbooks.

12+ chopped garlic handful of dried bay leaves couple of shakes of the dried sage (yeah… real scientific here) 3-4 sprigs of thyme teaspoon of sea salt to start 1 whole egg + 2 yolks [...]