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Birthday Bowling

February 19, 2007

TOAD: February 18th, 2007: On Sunday, Karen and I headed out to Long Island to celebrate Kelly and Chieko’s birthdays with a little bowling and some baked goods. Karen’s awesome brownies were the first product of my Valentine’s Day present, The Baker’s Edge and judging by the reaction from the crowd, they were quite a [...]

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Hogs and Triangles

February 5, 2007

TOAD: February 4th, 2007: Late Friday afternoon Karen and I decided to throw an informal Super Bowl party for those people that might not have had plans but wanted to get together to eat some food (declicious) and watch the game (sloppy with a few exciting moments) and commercials (pretty weak for the most part). [...]

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What is a Fideos?

January 21, 2007

TOAD: January 20th, 2007: Last week on Bravo’s Top Chef, Ilan created a dish that immediately grabbed Karen and my attention, called fideos. Last night we set out to make the dish ourselves. Armed with a pound and a half of clams, capellini pasta, cauliflower, saffron, heavy cream and garlic, we were well on our [...]

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Death by Ceviche

December 4, 2006

(and a public service announcement): This weekend we decided to try making ceviche at home. I had found a pretty easy and delicious looking recipe on the Fresh Direct recipe list, so I stocked up our weekend cart with all the makings. Alex got to work on it yesterday morning, making some nice tweaks by [...]

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