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Sep
12
2010

Today’s lunch: tostones with mojito, Daisy Martinez-style

tostones with mojito

Since my father’s got my camera and my cell phone battery is dead (and the charger is at work), I had to use the camera on my iMac to get this picture of my super-fragrant, super-delicious lunch. My mother recently discovered Daisy Martinez’s cooking program on PBS. She’d fallen in love with Daisy’s food and…  Continued »

Jan
14
2010

Tonight’s dinner: Todd English-recipe crab cakes

[flickr]set:72157623212478648[/flickr] My six degrees of separation story about Todd English is that my dad helped him get building permits to open up Olives (and later, Figs) in Charlestown, MA in the 1980s. I’d never actually eaten at his restaurant until I went there for my BFF Prairie’s 24th birthday in 2000. I don’t remember everything…  Continued »

Sep
07
2009

Cooking Mara!

After taking the summer off from R&R as summer is the busiest time of year for me in terms of work (I work on the actual labor portion of my lab’s annual report and annual news magazine), I am ready to talk about a cooking adventure going on right now in my kitchen (I’m taking…  Continued »

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