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  • Recipe Honey-Soy Chicken with Asian Spices

    Honey-Soy Chicken with Asian Spices
    When we went to Chinatown in Boston over spring break, we picked up a few spices that are (unbelievably, and unfortunately) not easily found in our local supermarkets. Whole star anise and dehydrated galangal were among them, and we've[...]
  • Recipe Mexican Spring Dinner (Including Recipe for Rum Baked Black Beans)

    Mexican Spring Dinner (Including Recipe for Rum Baked Black Beans)
    To celebrate Cinco de Mayo, we took a cooking class at our local community college (Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT). The class was called "Mexican Spring Dinner" and it was such a fun time! A chef, an assistant chef and[...]
  • Recipe Meatless Monday: Spicy Chickpea and Carrot Tagine

    Meatless Monday: Spicy Chickpea and Carrot Tagine
    We've had a tagine for a few months now and had yet to use it. Until today. While browsing various vegetarian-themed recipe sites, the word "tagine" kept popping up, and it was a welcome reminder of that cone-shaped earthen-ware[...]
  • Recipe Pizza Night with Chef Elizabeth

    Pizza Night with Chef Elizabeth
    We don't have kids. We're both teachers, which means we actually do have kids (teenagers, in fact) - about 100 (each) for seven hours a day. On Chris's side we have eight nieces, four nephews and one great-nephew; on mine[...]
  • Recipe A Day at Farming Turtles Farm

    A Day at Farming Turtles Farm
    Amy writes: A few weeks ago, Chef Lise asked me to take a field trip with her to Farming Turtles farm in Exeter, Rhode Island. The goal was work: to take some pictures of their products, both individually and[...]
  • Recipe Meatless Monday: A Fresh Take on Pasta Primavera

    Meatless Monday: A Fresh Take on Pasta Primavera
    There's something about the old Pasta Primavera that is unappealing. Perhaps it's all the banquets where it sits in a hotel pan over sterno so long that it ends up as overcooked pasta slathered in[...]
  • Recipe Scallops with Orange-Caramel Sauce

    Scallops with Orange-Caramel Sauce
    We told you a couple of weeks ago about Dorie Greenspan's amazing cookbook Around My French Table , and the bloggers' group that we take part in, French Fridays with Dorie . Well, we did our own unofficial French Friday with[...]
  • Recipe A Spring Afternoon in Boston's North End

    A Spring Afternoon in Boston's North End
    Tourists, locals and college students alike flock to the North End of Boston for great Italian food. However, a spot on Cooking Channel's Unique Eats seafood episode drew us past Bacco's and Al Dente and straight to Neptune Oyster  for[...]
  • Recipe Easter Treats

    Easter Treats
    Easter dinner at Chris's family's started in the late afternoon, leaving us plenty of time during the day to make our Easter treats. For the first two, we utilized our new favorite ingredient bought during a recent trip to Boston (more on Beantown[...]
  • Recipe Our First French Friday with Dorie: Eclairs

    Our First French Friday with Dorie: Eclairs
    Around Christmas, using some deep-discount coupon plus book rewards points, and justified as a present to "A Couple in the Kitchen," Amy bought the gorgeous then-new cookbook by author Dorie Greenspan, Around My French Table.  And[...]