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Nick • February 13, 2010
Generally, I’d like to think I’m a romantic guy. I like snuggling, holding hands, and smoochin’. But, I’m not crazy about Valentine’s Day. I like spending time with people I love (or even friends/family) on Valentine’s Day, but I’m not huge on the dozens of roses and expensive dinner situation. Luckily, my future wife isn’t [...]
Posted in Breakfast/Brunch, Holidays, Seafood, Stuffing Stuff | Tagged bananas, butter, capers, chocolate, cream cheese, crepes, Eggs, mascarpone, nutella, smoked salmon
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Nick • February 8, 2010
The Italians are geniuses. They found a way to stuff all of my favorite things into a single dessert: alcohol, coffee, chocolate, and even cheese. That dessert is tiramisu. My only issue with tiramisu is it generally uses Brandy which isn’t something I have laying around. Bourbon, however, I do normally have and tend to [...]
Posted in Desserts, Stuffing Stuff | Tagged bourbon, butter, cake flour, cinnamon, cocoa powder, coffee, Eggs, ladyfingers, mascarpone, tiramisu, vanilla
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Nick • November 16, 2009
In my food letter a few weeks ago I promised that I was going to do something with chestnuts this month. I’ll admit that having never worked with them, chestnuts always just looks like mysterious little wood chunks – expensive mysterious little wood chunks. They were so worth it though. If you’ve never had chestnuts [...]
Posted in Main Dishes, Pasta, Stuffing Stuff, Vegetarian | Tagged brown butter, butter, chestnuts, cinnamon, Eggs, homemade pasta, Italian food, mascarpone, ravioli
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Nick • August 24, 2009
Sometimes I have an idea for a dish (in this case a brownie) and I get really excited about it. I talk about it and think about it. Sometimes I remind myself of the cute kid in the Disney commercial. I get so excited I can’t even sleep! I’ve made brownies before with cream cheese [...]
Posted in Desserts, Failure | Tagged brownies, butter, chocolate, cream cheese, Eggs, frosting, honey, mascarpone, sugar, vanilla, walnuts
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Nick • April 20, 2009
Today is the deadline for entries to the Annual Pillsbury Bake-off. Today is also the day I will not be winning one million dollars. Turns out Pillsbury considers me a “food professional” and therefore disqualified me. Guess what… if you have a food blog then you’ll be disqualified also. Kind of a lame rule if [...]
Posted in Chicken, Main Dishes, Poultry, Stuffing Stuff | Tagged apricots, calzones, Chicken Breasts, limes, mascarpone, mozzarella, nutmeg
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