From the category archives:

Pasta

Spring Vegetable Pesto Pasta

June 3, 2009

I was an odd child, but this shouldn’t really come as a surprise. I was the child in pre-school that the teachers worried about because I was “special”. And by special, I mean I was the child singing the “VD is for everyone” song during nap time. Granted, I had no idea when I was [...]

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Creamy Arugula Walnut Pesto & Black Pepper Tagliatelle

June 26, 2008

Blame Michelle over at Thursday Night Smackdown for this recipe. I was perusing through the many food blogs I have bookmarked at work (during lunch…yes, that’s it, during lunch) and stumbled upon her most recent edition of Cheap Ass Mondays…which included fresh pasta made by hand (yes ladies and gentleman, she didn’t even use a [...]

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Morel Mushroom Ravioli

June 18, 2008

I’ve really been in a bit of a funk lately, which means no inspiration to cook or write. In fact, I have even ordered Chinese take out for dinner…twice! So this post is from a dish I made almost two weeks ago with my fabulous morels. Luckily there are a slew of recipes I made [...]

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Spring Vegetable Sesame Salad

June 2, 2008

Instead of smartly asking Carmen for the recipe to the wonderful Sesame Salad he served at the neighborhood dinner, I decided to try to recreate it. As luck would have it, James had recently made a sesame salad and was kind enough to share the recipe. James’ recipe called for meat or seafood, but I [...]

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Asparagus, Mushrooms and Shallots in a Garlic Butter Sauce

May 30, 2008

I bet you guys were starting to wonder when I was going to get my ass back into the kitchen. Well, it just so happened this week was super hectic and it’s hard playing activities director to a newly formed cultural posse (the posse of culturality to be exact). But on Tuesday night, after a [...]