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This Dinner Will Get You Laid – Chicken with Lemon and Thyme, when dinner has to deliver
There are times when we all want to make a good impression. Look like our best selves in a good light on a good hair day, be at our smartest, our wittiest, our most charming. Or, failing that, simply not … Continue reading
This Dinner Will Get You Laid – Fettuccine Alfredo with peas and pancetta and an important question; what’s in a name?
Not entirely out of the blue, I was able to plug my fascinating fact of the week into conversation: “Did you know,” I told the assembled company, “that Pepsi Cola was originally called Brad’s Drink?”
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Tagged Alfredo, cream, panchetta, pasta, peas, tagliatelle
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This Dinner Will Get You Laid – Profiteroles,Oscars and an unlikely celebrity haunting
As the Oscars approach, we naturally become more concerned with movies and their stars. Some of us, more literally than others.
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Tagged chocolate, cocktail, ghost, ice cream, oscars, party, profiteroles, Susan Sarandon
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This Dinner Will Get You Laid – Jambalaya in anticipation of Mardi Gras
As Mardi Gras approaches, thoughts turn to beads, then to breasts, and then to jambalya. Yes, sometimes I wonder about my thought processes too.
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Tagged beads, chicken, jambalaya, mardi gras, old bay, rice, shrimp
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This Dinner Will Get You Laid – Roast duck breasts and pink cabbage puree
The first Valentines Day that I spent with the man I ended up married to was, not to put too fine a point on it, awkward and uncomfortable.
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Tagged duck, Paris, red cabbage, rendezvous, romance, steak, Valentines Day
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This Dinner Will Get You Laid – New York Strip Steak with Bourbon Butter
Even among people who generally couldn’t give a damn about football. Even among my friends who obsess over things like organic quinoa and sample sale-ing. Even among my friends – alright – one friend specifically – who thought The Giants were a baseball team - … Continue reading
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Tagged football, New York Strip Steak, steak, Superbowl
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This Dinner Will Get You Laid – bravery, hats, chicken piccata and a side of kink
My friend Wendy’s friend has made a brave life choice; she’s given up being a lawyer, or a market analyst, or whatever it was that she did in her fancy midtown office, and is following her dream of making hats.
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Tagged chicken, dreams, hat making, lemon, parsley, stock
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This Dinner Will Get You Laid – Slow Roast Duck for Chinese New Year, and a question; do you have a type?
Through the wonder of the internet, my friend Jen has discovered a disquieting fact about her ex boyfriend: “his new girlfriend looks exactly like me.”
This Dinner will get you laid – Chicken with Puy Lentils, and the superstitions of New Yorkers
Upon first impressions you may be fooled into thinking that New York is a highly rational place, rooted in the real. Real estate, real hard work, commerce, business – some guy was talking trash to a transvestite outside the Duplex … Continue reading
This Dinner will make taking down the tree suck less – Chicken Tagine for an epiphany feast
Today is epiphany. Time to take down the Christmas decorations, sweep up pine needles and surrender to the inevitable gloom that comes with the realization; the holidays are well and truly over now.
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Tagged chicken, cous cous, epiphany, Istanbul, lemons, Morocco, pomegranate, preserved lemons, tagine
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