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Author Archives: shelly
smoked duck breast with savoy cabbage and apples
This dish seemed to create itself when I brought home the main ingredients. Cabbage and apple were meant to be together, and smoked duck breast is the sultry femme fatale. Who knew that food could have a ménage à trois? … Continue reading
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white beet sorrel potato soup
I once ate white borsch at a friend’s house as a teenager. It was a clear broth with potatoes and green leafies of some sort, and I loved it. This soup was a revelation for me, as my previous encounters … Continue reading
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bits and bobs
Wandering around the blogosphere, I often run into an interesting little tidbit and make a mental note to talk about it here. Naturally, this happens quite a bit and the little tidbits tend to add up. But my brain can … Continue reading
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weekend cat blogging #79 featuring sheba
You’ve met Sheba before, most notoriously as Sheba the Shack, Jabba the Hut’s third cousin twice removed. Sheba is quite a character. When she’s not meowing at the neighbors or wriggling out of some wily human’s grasp, she likes to … Continue reading
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pumpkin spaghetti squash goat cheese tart
These are before and after photos of the pumpkin spaghetti squash goat cheese tart I made the other day. You can tell that one is an improvement over the other because it’s got a nicer hairstyle and better make up … Continue reading
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variations on borsch
Privyet, dear readers of food blog! I am taking break from translating Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” to do favor for Shelly, usual author of blog. I was just getting to juicy part, when phone rang. Expecting call from cursed ex-husband … Continue reading
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san francisco: ferry building farmers market
I try to get to the farmers market every Saturday or so, barring torrential rains or an insatiable need to laze around the house on a Saturday morning. While the Ferry Building farmers market in San Francisco is not the … Continue reading
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stumbling across the finish line
It’s day 30 of NaBloPoMo. Can you believe it? Posting daily has become almost normal. I find myself writing more fluently, no stalling and pondering what exactly I want to say, writing, and deleting, and rewriting. In fact, on the … Continue reading
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pasta with smoky sweet spinach and squash
This dish was born, as so many are, of ingredients that happened to be lying around. The squash—pumpkin—actually, was lounging around the wooden produce bowl, chatting up the onions and apples. The spinach leaves were chattering in the fridge, complaining … Continue reading
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documenting all you can eat #7
Here it is, day 7 of all you can eat. Inspired by Sam, the originator of this foodblogging challenge, I put together a slideshow of the foods I ate on day 7. It’s not nearly as pretty as Sam’s slideshow, … Continue reading
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