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Penne with gorgonzola and walnuts – for elegance
Recently, I’ve been planning my work wardrobe around being able to wear leggings under things, and matching with my boots. The sidewalks are covered in gray ice. Salt stains the carpet. Things just got a little schlubby.
Roasted Garlic Tomato Orecchiette, Starfish and Theatre
So I wrote a play for my friend Annie, and in it, is a giant luminous starfish. “You’ll be ok making that, right?†I blithely checked with Jon as I headed out of the door on Saturday morning.
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Tagged easy, pasta, Puppets, Roasted Garlic, theatre, tomato, ways we disappoint our parents
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Penne with roasted onion and cauliflower – and the joy of a Christmas Letter.
New Year. A time to reflect on 2013, to add up our narratives and dramas and to wonder how we might tweak them in the year to come. Nothing brings this home more pointedly than a session reading Christmas letters … Continue reading
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Tagged cauliflower, easy, hazel nuts, pasta, roasted onions, winter warmer
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Spring Pea Pasta for Fashion Batman
I’m just going to tell it to you straight. I love my cape. I love to sweep around the city like fashion batman. I like to wear it as often as possible.
Quick Fresh Tomato Pasta Sauce for a Late Night Dinner
I recently started writing for a sketch comedy team at the Pit in NYC. We write late, and rehearse later. Consequently, I’m staggering home at 11pm, lacking the energy to tackle any significant cooking, or indeed, any significant eating.
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Tagged breakfast for dinner, easy, fresh sauce, late night, olive oil, pasta, quick, quick cooking, sketch comedy, tomato
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This Dinner Will Get You Laid – linguini with zucchini in a lemon cream sauce
Everybody needs a hobby – for me it’s a close tie between magazining and singing. For John, triathlons. For Tabitha, designing dog Halloween costumes and selling them on Etsy. As it turns out, Jon’s Boss has a hobby too – … Continue reading
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Tagged cream, giant vegetables, harvest, lemon, pasta, penne, vegetarian, zucchini
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Provencal tomato pasta – a celebration of hope and/or partial nudity
NYC is a city of contrasts. This week, for example my very brave friend Jess made something of a public declaration of hope on her blog. Not entirely out of the blue, you understand, but because she has met a … Continue reading
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Tagged balcony crop, contrasts, dinner, djating, friends, Grace, hope, love, olive oil, pasta, summer, tomato
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This Dinner Will Get You Laid – linguini with lemon and crème fraiche – the antidote to hotheadedness
It’s been a roasting hot sticky week in New York City. The kind of weather that makes people sleepy, then stupid as night falls and the temperature drops to merely baking.
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Tagged balcony, creme fraiche, date night, dinner, easy entertaining, hot weather, lemon, lingiuni, pasta, theft, vegetarian
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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?â€
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Tagged Alfredo, cream, panchetta, pasta, peas, tagliatelle
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This dinner will get you laid – Homemade tagliatelle with white truffle
“Unbelievably†said Jen, “It actually tastes like pasta.†It was the inauguration of my KitchenAid pasta roller attachment, given to me as a birthday gift from Sheana, my mother in law. I had been wanting it ever since I acquired … Continue reading