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December 7, 2009

Chicken Tagine with Chickpeas & Golden Raisins

This is a kind of recipe mash-up. A lamb tagine recipe (with the wonderful & amazing spice-paste-rub stuff) and a chicken tagine recipe with the tomatoes and broth and oven cooking. And wow, good call to mix the two recipes togetther! This was WONDERFUL -- all caps wonderful. I wrote it down right after dinner …

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December 2, 2009

Pasta e Ceci. Well, Pretty Much…

This is a great recipe in which to use some of that turkey stock you just made. Or, of course, chicken stock works well too. Vegetable stock/broth probably too. This is not completely authentic, I'm sure. I've added tomatoes and tweaked the ingredients to my liking. Such as: I prefer this very garlicky and thick …

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October 28, 2009

Roasted Fennel-Spiced Pork Tenderloin with Sage-Lemon Vinaigrette

Okay, this is seriously the best thing I have done with a pork tenderloin in like, years. Oh my god. Make this now. It was so good in fact, that I didn't even get a decent picture of it for the title shot here. I just took it to the table and that was the …

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October 20, 2009

Experiments in Pulled Pork — Sandwiches (and then Enchiladas)

The main recipe here is originally from the Portland restaurant Meat Cheese Bread. It was in our local paper, in the weekly food section. I saw it, made Homer Simpson type sounds as I thought about how good it must be, and promptly decided to give it a try. That said, I tweaked it a …

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September 23, 2009

Spanish Paella for a Crowd

I combined a couple of recipes here -- one of the Paella recipes in the (awesome) New Spanish Table cookbook, a paella recipe from Tyler Florence and I also used the meat I wanted to -- chicken thighs, chorizo and shrimp, rather than the exact ones in either recipe. You could throw all manner of …

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