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Homemade Dinners For Past-Due Holidays and Compromised Circumstances

By allison | Published: August 18, 2009
Last week I conjured up a four course meal for my brother and his wife as a delayed Christmas present. They’d already drank their special red wine I bought especially for the meal (from Italian Wine Merchants), but had only used half the bottle of exquisite extra virgin olive oil. The can of oil packed [...]
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Bread As A Method Of Delivery

By allison | Published: June 17, 2009
My mind cycles thinking about what I would like for dinner on nights when I have a single vegetable in the fridge. A half eaten container of yogurt won’t feed these brain cells right now. In a city where you don’t know the ins and outs of, you tend to assume you’ve had all that [...]
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I Got A Hand, Sometime It Makes Things

By allison | Published: May 27, 2009
It’s hard for me to remember the first time I ever had gnocchi. Of all the fresh pastas, it’s one of the easiest to make from scratch, only requiring potatoes, flour, eggs, water, and a pair of hands. And preferably acceptable meteorological conditions. But when you want it so bad, even just to make yourself [...]
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