Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner

Well, I did it. I entered my very first cooking contest.
In entering the recipe that I did I also took a big risk. Even though the rules of the contest didn’t stipulate that the recipe had to be something simple or easy to prepare, I felt no matter what it was necessary for [...]

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Fall flavors

Not my grandmother’s ravioli

December 7, 2009

One of my favorite things about the holiday trip up to visit my grandparents was knowing that Christmas dinner would include my grandmother’s homemade raviolis. To call it dinner is a bit of misnomer, rather it was an all day food festival that started early and finished late. Sometimes you made it through, [...]

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Reinterpreting lasagna

November 11, 2009

A few years ago I was watching Giada De Laurentis on the Food Network make a butternut squash lasagna. At the time my wife and I had only just met, but having had already cooked for her a few times I knew this would be something she would enjoy.
I stuck to the script the [...]

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A little bisque is good for the soul

November 3, 2009

Today we have the first recipe in the Fall Flavors series I talked a little about last week. Over the years I’ve made several different types of bisques, but this is the first time that I’ve ever done one with butternut squash.
As with most recipes that I’ve posted here, I did some research looking [...]

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Fall flavors

October 27, 2009

On a few occasions I’ve talked about how fall is my favorite season, but for some reason I have neglected to mention one of the main reason why – fall flavors. When the temperature begins to fall and the winds turn chilly my mind turns to the dishes that I love to make with [...]

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