White wine vinegar :

The sun in a fruit ? apricot

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I love apricots, their colour, flavour and fragrance. My dad brought quite a lot apricot home. Most of it we use to make palinka, but I could pick some to make preservings. To make these you have to use completely healthy and ripe but yet tough[...]

Bacon, Beans and a Braised Fennel Bulb

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This is one of those recipes. You know the kind I mean. The ?there?s nothing in the house and I must eat something? kind of recipes. You see I have been traveling. I am just back[...]

Bacon, Beans and a Braised Fennel Bulb

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This is one of those recipes. You know the kind I mean. The ?there?s nothing in the house and I must eat something? kind of recipes. You see I have been traveling. I am just back[...]

Market Matters- Shirred Eggs with Benedict Arnold Sauce

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Can you stand it? I mean look at these eggs. It is not Easter and I did not dye these eggs. This case of chromatic craziness was all the hens doing. I know I have told you that the[...]

01.22.11: dinner (Roman-style rigatoni with pancetta, pecorino and red onion)

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Rigatoni with Pancetta, Red Onion and Pecorino Rome is on my list of places to visit sooner than later for many reasons (but then again the same could be said for Barcelona, Madrid, and San Juan), in part because I have this recurring wistful[...]

11.06.10: dinner (roasted veal short ribs?they look just like the picture in the book!)

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Roasted Veal Short Ribs If you read our last foray into The Les Halles Cookbook , you’ll recall that the meal we attempted was delicious but also… ambitious . Enough that it caused a little stress on the way to French[...]

Chicken & Green Beans With White Wine Vinegar

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This is another chicken dish that’s easy to prepare. If you noticed, I’ve been posting a couple of chicken recipes here. I happen to join my friends on a no-rice diet and the chicken dishes are my best options to allow me to stick the[...]

Red Snapper Fillet In Thymato Sauce

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I bought a small pack of Arrowroot powder sometime ago but it's not been used as much as I planned. I used it in soups but haven't test it in stir-fries. My house helper bought me some nice and fresh Red Snapper fillets and large prawns last week[...]