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03.13.10
Again …..
I know we’ve already had a post about homemade pasta. I just wanted to add a couple of more points and some pictures.
Roast Garlic Basil Pesto Experiment
03.13.10
I had a hankering for pesto pasta and thought I’d try a little experiment. I threw a couple of cloves of garlic and a handful of pine nuts in a pot, submersed them in olive oil and cooked/poached them for 15 minutes on my lowest output burner on the lowest setting.
Dinner with friends
01.25.10
A very dear friend of ours was in town over the holidays and to celebrate we christened my new kitchen with a delicious meal, lots of wine and very good company.
Salt Crusted Prime Rib
01.20.10
I’ve always wanted to try this, so when Loblaws had prime rib at an obscenely reasonable price, it was destiny. The first time I had salt crusted prime rib was in a tiny little town in Arizona. I was working at a copper mine in Bagdad and staying in Wickenburg (SP? but really who cares). Bagdad was a company town with one resto that served something that almost resembled food.
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Geeks and Food
posted by Kitchen Vulture on 2009.11.20, under Mouthy Bits
11.20.09
Who knew that Slashdot would have links to interesting food articles. The NY times ran an article on ex Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold. I read his Wikipedia entry and was immediately intimidated.
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Do Not Rush a Persimmon
posted by Kitchen Vulture on 2009.11.16, under Mouthy Bits
11.16.09
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Persimmons are a strange and vindictive fruit. Delicious, but if you attempt to eat one before it looks too rotten to eat, you will be sorry. I rushed a persimmon this afternoon, about an hour ago … my mouth only just recovered.
