wanderlust
In my previous post I realized that I really needed more than one post about our trip. The food! El Pescador has great food. Breakfast and lunch are offered during set times during the day. I discovered the fried jacks (or fry jacks) on the breakfast menu, and they are glorious. I read about them…
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It’s Lundi Gras, and while I’d rather go to New Orleans any time but Mardi Gras weekend, I do feel a twinge of sadness that I’m not personally enjoying the revelry. Instead, I’ll write this post about the greatest food (besides chicken wings) ever discovered. And by discovered, I mean, who the hell was the…
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I mentioned that I wanted to cook with lavender in my previous post. Well, I tried it. Let me say this – I love the smell of lavender. I have lavender soap in my bathroom, lavender linen spray for my sheets, and a lavender-scented eye mask for the “corpse pose” in yoga. I love it.…
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Macarons! Not those coconut macaroons that might come to mind, but Parisian macarons. They are gorgeous little bites of heaven, in any flavor under the sun. I picked up two while I was in Paris and promptly ate them. It is a fun surprise to find out what is inside since the only way to…
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Ever since I saw an episode of “The Best Thing I Ever Ate” on Food Network, I have been wanting to make a flourless chocolate cake. Aarón Sanchez noted on the cake episode that a flourless chocolate cake from the bakery Cake Flour was the best cake he’d ever eaten. I started looking for a recipe,…
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My husband loves duck. Loves it. He has stories of the ducks he has shot and how he cooked them. The only thing he’ll hunt are birds, and (luckily) he hasn’t been hunting since I met him. I have a thing about hunting. Nevertheless, he still loves it, no matter where it comes from. On…
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On Friday while waiting on W, I watched Iron Chef America. I love Iron Chef; however, I was sad to find out that the Chairman’s nephew is not actually his nephew (hint: he’s an actor). And apparently the chefs have some time to figure out what they are going to make – it’s not all…
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When I was in college, I went to Florence, Italy, thanks to my parents who gave me the trip as a gift. I went into a bar with a friend and saw a glass jar filled with fresh fruit and wine. Wondering what it was, I ordered a glass and found that it was sangria.…
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My husband loves to cook and loves spicy food. We are a match made in heaven, since I love to eat and also love spicy food. We visited his parents who have a great garden, when their labs don’t eat all the tomatoes (and eggplants and cucumbers…), and we came home with lots of habaneros!…
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