Warning: This post may be dark—and delicious—and yes, full of spoilers… “Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death… …I pledge my life and honor to the Night’s Watch, for this night and all the nights to come.” ~The first two lines, and the last line, from the Night’s Watch oath It’s a story, I get it. It’s a cable series, I know. I did not, obviously, pledge my life or my honor to the Night’s Watch, but I did pledge my last six suppers to the watching of the final season of HBO’s Game of Thrones. And now my watch is ended… Or…
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Soul and Tender Loving Care with Lamb Shanks & Cauliflower
“A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.” ~Thomas Keller I agree with Chef Keller. You must bring soul, some attention, and some tender loving care, if you will, to most good recipes. You need to add those extra touches: leaving the eggs out at room temperature perhaps, making sure you have the best butter available, roasting a head of garlic so you can add its sticky goodness to whatever bread or side dish you may be eating, …the list goes on and on. And then you must pay attention. You must braise, or stir, or hang out in the kitchen with a…
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Let’s Be Frank
“Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.” ~Dwight D. Eisenhower Well, I guess the late President Eisenhower and I would have gotten along just fine! No offense to the champagne and caviar crowd (I hang out with them sometimes), but hey, who doesn’t love beer and hot dogs? I certainly love a good hot dog, so I was definitely game for this next recipe in the Cook the 40 Challenge: Kogi Dogs by Roy Choi. Cook the 40 Why take on Food & Wine’s best-ever recipes from their forty years in publication? Because if you’ve been paying attention, you know that’s one…
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Dinner Is Coming
Warning: This post may be dark and full of spoilers… “I drink and I know things.” ~Tyrion and me I do drink, and I do know things. Before I started watching Game of Thrones, though, I didn’t know how much I’d enjoy a story that featured zombies. Are you a fan? I wasn’t always. I arrived late to the GOT party, not starting to watch the HBO series—or read the books—until 2016. Let us say that this is when my watch began. I wrote this in my last blog post about the things I’m eating during this last GOT season, but I was never a fan of zombies, or books…
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Salad Days
"My salad days, when I was green in judgment, cold in blood, to say as I said then!" ~Cleopatra, from Antony and Cleopatra, Act 1, Scene 5, 67-75
