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Pan-Seared Salmon with Pasta and Spinach Cream Sauce
While our enthusiasm for cooking has grown immensely over the past year, we still feel mostly reluctant to toss our recipe books aside and approach the task with our own original ideas and...
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Mussels a la Portuguese, OR: "Hey man, that's a lot of mussels.""Yeah, that's...
When’s the last time you went to a butcher or fish guy and ordered six pounds of anything? “Hey, I was wondering if you can give me six pounds of salmon.” “Sure thing, bub. That’ll be a hundred and...
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Baja Fish Tacos
Our own version culled from a few different recipes, an emulation of the classic recipe of homemade tortillas, lightly fried tempura-style fish, a dairy-based white sauce, and fresh, crunchy, gently...
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Linguine with Clams from the Babbo Kitchen, via Bill Buford
My favorite passages from Bill Buford's Heat are set in the Babbo kitchen, when he describes with fear and awe the wonder that is a busy restaurant kitchen at dinnertime-- tickets flying, steam...
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In Praise of Open-Faced Sandwiches
Personally, I didn't need any convincing, but after seeing the above picture, I can see why you might. It's the same reason Alton Brown went to great lengths on a recent episode of Good Eats to hide a...
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My Chicago: Caputo Cheese Market, and a Search for Bottarga
My Chicago is about life as a cooks and eaters in our home city. Markets, restaurants, secret finds, really tasty bites--or just a great story. We're lucky to live here.Bottarga would handily win the...
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Trout a la Meunière, or Sharing a Culinary Epiphany with Julia Child
A variation on meunière sauce with almonds In one of the opening scenes of My Life in France, Julia Child experiences an early meal in France with her husband, Paul, a lunch at La Couronne, a medieval...
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Introducing The Soft Shell Crab Sandwich...with Bacon
Soft shell crab season is here, generally considered to begin at some point in May. So we here at The Paupered Chef decided it was time to take advantage. Generally, the soft shell crab is dusted...
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How to Throw a Baja Fish Taco Party
Mexican food is made for parties. The construction of tortillas, fillings, salsas, and toppings; the spicy, rich flavors; and above all, the fact that it tastes so darn good. This was our guiding...
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