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Macerated Berries

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If you’re located on Tortola and you love strawberries, I suggest you hightail it down to Riteway immediately.  Fresh strawberries are down to $2.99 a pound!  Go on, you can come back and finish reading this post later. For[...]

Ragù 101

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If there’s a single dish, one recipe that above all others expresses exactly what kind of cook I am, this is it.  It’s a simple recipe, just a ragù .  It doesn’t contain many ingredients,[...]

Coniglio a Porchetta

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I didn’t set out to roast the Easter Bunny for Easter lunch.  It just kind of happened.  Though I have to admit I find the idea of serving rabbit at Easter to be mildly amusing in a perverse kind of way.  Anyway, you can blame it on[...]

Sada Roti

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Sada Roti I’m often asked what my favorite American food and cooking magazine is and that’s an easy one to answer -  Saveur .  I sure miss Gourmet but Saveur is the only food magazine that both Bones and I love[...]

Signs of Spring: Fava Beans

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  I’d love to be one of those people I’m always reading about who only eats locally grown in-season produce.  They call them locavores .  Or Italians.  They don’t eat imported strawberries or out of season[...]

Preserved Lemons

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Michael and his couscoussier I consider myself to be a fairly intelligent person but my brain does, on occasion, fail me.  A former co-worker used to call it a brain fart and my gray matter sure let out a giant whoosh of duh this[...]

Passion Fruit Barbecue Sauce

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The teenage girl is a fickle creature.  Clothes, cliques, crushes – they come, they go.  It’s hard to keep up.  The Twiguys have been cruelly cast aside in favor of Usher’s BFF with the bowl haircut.  A raging epidemic[...]

How to Eat a Passion Fruit

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I have it on good authority (well, Twitter…maybe not so authoritative)  that the Iron Chef judges, while evaluating the worthy chefs during a recent Battle Passion Fruit, expressed surprise upon being served up dishes containing the[...]

Easy Hors D?oeuvre

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Stuffed mushrooms ready for baking And Audrey continues to offer my cooking services around the island.  She recently piped up and promised her mom would be happy to provide hors d’oeuvre for forty and finger food for[...]

Best Bread Redux

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No-Knead Sourdough Bread I don’t believe in no-knead bread.   That was the wonderful writer and cook Michael Ruhlman’s reply when asked on Twitter if his Ratio app supports no-knead bread .  I don’t do any apps[...]