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When I experimented with the Crab-Crusted Ling Cod last week, I had extra roasted red pepper sauce left over (bottom of that post). And really, extra roasted red pepper sauce literally screams, "pasta! Use me with pasta!" Really, it does -- I heard it. So, I answered the call. I used the leftover sauce to …

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The recipe I chose for this fabulous incarnation of IMBB is from the Rhone-Alps region of France (near Grenoble) and comes from the French Farmhouse Cookbook by Susan Hermann Loomis, which is a cookbook that I enthusiastically recommend. It was also very useful for this event as she says exactly where she got each recipe, …

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In addition to the tasty dinner jwa made me last Friday, he also bought me a very nice present -- an ice cream maker. It's only been on my wish list for about three years, so I was quite ecstatic to finally get one. It's a Cuisinart and it's red and it's oh so pretty! …

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Hello. Allow myself to introduce.. myself. I am jwa, the willing target of mlb's delectable meals. Remain calm! I have temporarily commandeered this blog whatchamacallit to, erm, blog about mlb's birthday dinner. mlb and I have a fine tradition of birthday meals. True, it is often she or an anonymous set of chefs at fine …

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A New Birthday Tradition For the last two years, we've started the tradition where jwa cooks me dinner for my birthday. Previously, we'd spend a long weekend in Gearhart and eat my birthday dinner at the Pacific Way Cafe but it seems lately work and other things have interfered with that version of my birthday …

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