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24
2010
Cooking Mara! Thanksgiving Preparations

Hooray! It’s time to show my Thanksgiving progress, some good, some bad. It’s going to be photo-heavy and explanation-light. Why? My fingers are numb: I had the windows open and it got chilly. It was a little smoky earlier from the carrots (I’ll get to that). Let’s get the bad out of the way first!… Continued »
19
2010
Today’s lunch: pot roast from City Slicker!

Today’s lunch comes from an old favorite for takeout, the City Slicker Cafe in Somerville. One of my coworkers told me about this awesome takeout place in Ball Square called the Urban Gourmet. This was back when I lived in Union Square. We got some stuff from them, and it was outstanding… yum pizza, an… Continued »
16
2010
Curry in no hurry

I bought like eight thousand vegetables earlier in the week at the Tuesday veggie market, now it’s time to put them to use! The week before this past week, I bought a slow cooker on sale at Target that was recommended as an okay slow cooker by both Cooks Illustrated and Consumer Reports. Last week’s… Continued »
15
2010
This lady makes delicious food, part 2

As a follow-up to my last rather brown-nosey post about the culinary genius of Joanne Chang, I must gush about part of my lunch today, which is the soup pictured in the photo attached to this post. It is not only a glorious color, but it’s delicious! It’s not the special advertised on the website… Continued »
13
2010
This lady makes delicious food

So! I have like two hours to kill before we go have dinner at Myers + Chang in celebration of our homey Neil‘s birthday. Myers + Chang is quickly becoming like one of my most favoritest restaurants ever. It has a really cool Blade Runner-esque atmosphere, the food is great, and the service is excellent.