Squid Salad with Roasted Potatoes and Lemon-Shallot Vinaigrette
25 Apr 2010

Squid Salad with Roasted Potatoes and Lemon-Shallot Vinaigrette

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Even when you’re put up to a task, the most personal, creative and rewarding results can follow. Bear that in mind the next time your roommate asks you to pick up the living room (maybe it could use those cute new throw pillows you’ve been eyeing). When Amanda at the popular Park Slope site with an expletive in the name asked me to take on a cooking challenge, I thought, that’s the last thing I need now — a chore. … Read More

Spicy Squash and Chorizo Soup
10 Dec 2009

Spicy Squash and Chorizo Soup

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Today marks a sad day. I usually never let good produce go to waste, but after coming home and inspecting the three miniature squashes I had left out on a decorative platter on the coffee table, as a decorative touch to the room, I discovered that I had overestimated their coffee table life. They were no longer firm and heavy, but sickly hollow-feeling, and the acorn squash’s lizard-green skin was a bit wrinkled, with one spot of mold on the … Read More