Tonight's pizza is in honor of my first cousin, twice removed...
(I think that's the correct nomenclature ...I'm never sure about the removed thing)...
Will Murphy! A legendary pizza maker and general foodie in the D.C. - Northern Virginia area...
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OK, I know that "Hyperbole" is my middle name, but one night last week I may have made the best thing ever...
No, really!
I had shrimp and an abbondanza of chives and, thinking of combinations, I decided that grilled…
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OK... Big Gigantic Alert! I made up a dish tonight... AND IT WAS AMAZING!!!
Right. No modesty here at all...
I wanted a salad because it's hot and humid. But sometimes a salad just doesn't do it for me.
So…
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In continuing my Greek-inspired summer...
I had some pizza dough from the other night... A mess of arugula that I'd cooked down... Red peppers I'd roasted (another big Fairway sale)... Extraordinary green olives I'd been given by a chef friend…
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I like many things.
Hyperbole is one of those things.
However, having admitted that...
Giuliano Bugialli's Tuscan beans with tuna and pancetta may be my favorite meal in the whole world.
Yes.
I've played around with the recipe a bit…
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So I seem to be having this Greek thing going on... No comments!
It may simply be that it's summer... or possibly the discovery of cheap but not bad feta at Trader Vic's... or the oregano in the garden...
Whatever…
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I had some chicken breast trimmings in the fridge...
Some peanuts I bought to see if there's any way another brand can match Planters (the answer is "no," by the way)...
And some scallions I had to use in a…
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It's been hot... OK, not August-in-NYC hot, but hot...
I didn't want a salad. I didn't want a hot meal. Then I had a brainstorm...
A sort of vaguely muffuletta-like panino! (For the uninitiated, muffuletta is a delicious, over-stuffed, olive-heavy…
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I don't often do a 100% fried dinner...
Duh...
But as you can see below, at least a couple of times a year, primarily in the spring and/or summer when Vidalia onions are around...
Oh. Sidebar: no matter what you…
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So I bought some feta today. I feel like it should always be in the fridge for last-minute Greek salads, nu?
But Himself hinted he wanted chicken... What's the cook to do???
Then I thought: Spanakopita filling rolled into a…
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I'm pretty sure I've said this to you before... OK, I've probably said this to you ad nauseum... but this bears repeating (which also happens to be the tag line from my favorite birthday card ever)...
At least once every…
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OMG... earlier this week, the heat broke! It was cool, grey, and drizzling...
And I'm Irish... so that's perfect weather!
Enough of the salad thing... time for foooood!
Lentils cooked with garlic, onions, carrots, celery. Hot Italian sausage sautéed with…
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Hot night... unusually uninterested in cooking... but nevertheless...
I started cogitating.
And a glance in the fridge pointed me in the right direction!
A frittata... combining cubed sautéed potatoes, my fake roasted corn, 5 beaten eggs, small additions of both…
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Sometimes it's very hard for me emotionally to accept things I know intellectually to be true...
Case in point: herbs are happiest when cut pretty constantly.
But when I see a full, healthy, happy sage plant, I really don't want…
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I have long been inordinately proud of my pies. And yes, I know it goeth before a fall. But I learned from the master, Maureen Kavanagh McCann... my mother. We even had a friendly rivalry concerning pie crust!
When it's…
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