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Apr 19

Maybe I should try something other than pasta …

It’s happened again. Another dish made for the purposes of the list, another thing I’m not ready to share because it just wasn’t that great. (Another use of the “disappointment” tag I started to give myself a chuckle and was hoping wouldn’t surface again.) It didn’t make me immediately made me scroll through my mental calendar to figure out when I could make again, which is what normally happens with the items I write about. Read more

Mar 30

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Who doesn’t love salty glue pasta sauce?

So, it happened. I knew it would. I accomplished something new on the list, but it was not nearly good enough to share here. Not that it was my fault, no no.

You see: A few days ago I picked one of our cookbooks off the shelf – one that had me skeptical to begin with, seeing as 1) the title consists only of the name of a food item, followed by “the 100 best recipes,” 2) the publisher is a large bookstore chain, and 3) the only two words about the author in the entire book are her first and last name, which you see only on the cover (not even in the copyright information). You know the kind of cookbook I’m talking about – the large, glossy things that breed in clearance racks under the fluorescent lights of chain bookstores. Read more