If you want to try authentic Portuguese cuisine, New Bedford is the place to go. Last weekend my Aunt and Uncle treated me to a delicious meal at Anotonio’s located in the North End of the city. I wasn’t familiar with many of the Portuguese dishes listed on the menu but luckily my Uncle had [...]
Read more →So my sister and I have found a common bond through food. Although we approach cooking for different reasons, from different perspectives, and with different goals, I think its pretty cool that we have both discovered our love for cooking. Considering that my repertoire in high school was pasta + sauce and hers day dreaming [...]
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Read more →Story time! This crow needed a bottle of wine the other day, and things being as they are, I was on a budget. So I skipped up to the local boozery in search of one of my favorite less-than-seven-dollars bottles of wine; Pinot Evil. I like this wine; it is smooth, simple and cheap. [...]
Read more →When putting together an amazon order last month, I needed to tack on 1 more item to get free shipping. I had come across this book in an article about obesity in America (I wish I could remember where!). The author suggested reading this book to gain perspective on the obesity epidemic in America, specifically [...]
Read more →This article , entitled “When Chocolate and Chakras Collide” that ran in the Dining and Wine section of the New York Times yesterday has got to be one of the most ridiculous things I have ever read. A summery: people with too much time and too much expendable income do yoga for an hour, and [...]
Read more →c/o google image I’ve been using a lot of leeks lately, and this is an easy & delicious way to use them in a non-soup way (not that I don’t love them in soups). Curried leek and mushroom tart- This tart would also work very well as a quiche, but I’ve been loving the tart-salad [...]
Read more →This weekend I spent some time in New York City and had the pleasure of attending the “Boozey Bluegrass Brunch” at Nolita House in the Nolita neighborhood of Manhattan (for those of you who are not familiar with this area, as I was, it means North of Little Italy). Not only does this little restaurant [...]
Read more →So its that time of year again, where I get 1 squash a week in my produce box. I was three weeks backed up- I just couldn’t think of anything to make that would actually use them all up. I mean, they were HUGE butternuts. I finally took the plunge and added them to my [...]
Read more →Last week the JP Crows gathered to spend some much needed time in the kitchen and to celebrate our friend Robin’s Birthday. Robin brought forth an interesting ingredient to the dinner planning discussion: Black Beluga Lentils. None of us had cooked with them before so we scoured the internet and decided on this recipe: Black [...]
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