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When Life Gives You Lemons
Crab Cakes with Cilantro Lime Sauce: Happiness is something only definable by the person who actually felt it firsthand at a particular moment. So too in turn is one’s propensity to seek that happiness...
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Sharp as a Tack
Baked Zucchini Cups with Sharp Cheddar: Unconsciously or not, it’s sometimes without fail that the original plan or intention gets lost in translation as you come face to face with not having an...
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Line Drive to Center
Asian Meatballs with Rice & Bok Choy: Knowing when to bunt and when to swing away is profoundly personal, even without the baseball reference, and resonates at that spiritual level. In life, work,...
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Suffering Succotash
Succotash with Fresh Corn & Farro: I have some not so fond memories growing up with ill-conceived succotash. Ill-conceived in that it was often thrown together in haste with frozen or canned...
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Miami Rice
Paella with Smokey Grilled Chicken & Shrimp: My grandmother would put me on the kitchen counter when I was a child, and tell me to close my eyes and then would hover an open jar of some spice or...
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Spaghetti Western
Chicken Parmesan with Pan-Roasted Tomato Sauce & Spaghetti Squash: Irony in general, let alone in cooking, can be most entertaining. Much like watching a 1960’s Clint Eastwood movie, with the...
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Macalatern
Pumpkin Mac & Cheese with Smoked Gouda: Growing up in Florida with Halloween night at 80 degree temperatures seems foreign to me now having spent the better part of twenty years enjoying the crisp...
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Check Mate
Roasted Pork Empanadas with Gruyere Cheese: My grandfather taught me how to play chess at a very young age. He would without fail always win and then would say – “Christopher, you need to be thinking...
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Bird is the Word
Roasted Chicken with Herb Butter & Farro Salad: Cold rainy days always make me smile, and as silly as that sounds, it remains true for me. Perhaps from some deeply suppressed childhood memory, or...
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Get Shorty
Braised Short Ribs with Crispy Polenta Coins: Chasing complexity, for me, usually begins with diving headfirst into something I’ve never done before, but endeavoring to simplify it along the way. And...
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Feeling Blue
Crispy Bluefish with Spicy Udon Noodles: I have extremely fond memories of fishing with my uncle off the waters of Nantucket. Even though I’ve been fishing since I was old enough to hold a rod and...
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Layer Cake
Bolognese Lasagna: Layering flavors is a term that is straight forward and equally mind boggling. Much like an author writing a compelling and emotional scene that excites, terrifies, and makes you...
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Partridge in a Canadian Pear Tree
Braised Partridge with Mushroom Sauce & Raspberries: We spent the holidays at Mont Tremblant, a beautifully majestic ski resort in Quebec north of Montreal. Canada as a whole is a wonderful country...
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Pheasantly Surprised
Pheasant Stew: As I sit pondering over writing this recipe with both a sense of indecision and ignorance, I’m left with a surprising solace. It is always entertaining to venture into the unknown,...
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Got Coconut Milk
Coconut Sweet Potato Soup with Smoky Lentils: After skiing in negative degree temperatures this past Christmas, the idea of 40 degree January days would seem welcoming. However, 40 degrees on a damp...
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Pull Me Up
Ginger Pulled Pork in Lettuce Wraps: Reinventing yourself is something that many people struggle with, or at least are unconscious of, when it comes to careers, love, or life in general. Having a very...
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Cloudy with a Chance of Pasta
Pork Meatballs with Fresh Tomato Sauce & Herbed Ricotta: Why is it every time I hear someone say – “I hate it when it rains” – I think the complete opposite and my mind immediately races to a...
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Flower Power
Roasted Salmon with Cauliflower Puree & Sunflower Greens: Having grown up in the 1970’s being served frozen and canned vegetables, it’s no wonder I used to despise the very thought of green beans,...
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Some Like It Hot
Harissa Chicken with Ginger Rice & Fresh Peas: As I sit writing this on a crisp and damp morning, there’s a 1950’s movie playing in the background. No matter what old movie from that era or before...
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Free Bird
Slow Roasted Garlic Chicken with Tarragon Butter: Our inability to recognize let alone accept change haunts most people every day, but change will always be an inevitability. Change in the eyes of...
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