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peach cobbler loaf
A friend asked me last week how long it takes to get a recipe right. I told him the only answer I know: As long as it takes. I’d like to be someone who could “adjust my expectations,” make peace with “close enough,” o…
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cucumber salad with sesame and rice vinegar
It is an error that needs correcting that in the near-20 years of plugging recipes into this url, only a few truly star cucumbers — and highly unrepresentative too, given that we are probably eating some format of cuc…
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spaghetti aglio e olio
Do you ever look around at the ingredients available to you, the energy you have to give to the cooking process — or, as I recently explained to a medium-sized child shortly before I got uninvited from future family ev…
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house lemonade
I realize as far as recipes go, suggesting one needs one for lemonade is questionable. What’s next, a set of detailed instructions for salted water, simple syrup, or buttered noodles? ( Whoops! ) But it turns out I hav…
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hot dogs with vinegared iceberg and potato chips
In something I never expected to have to clarify, this is a hot dog recipe but it is not a recipe for hot dogs. I know that I have a history of making foods from scratch that most sane people do not feel the need to —…
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strawberry chiffon shortcake, perfected
In 2007, when this website was still in its infancy, I shared a recipe for a layered strawberry chiffon shortcake . I’d never made a chiffon cake before, but I brought it to a friend’s rooftop birthday BBQ, correctly a…
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snow pea salad with avocado
One of my most exasperating traits — or, perhaps one that makes me ideally suited for this space I invented, coincidentally, to suit my collection of traits — is that I have a terrific amount of random ingredient prepa…
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