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This Dinner Will Get You Laid – lobster rolls, superstitions and summer affirmations
This fascinating nugget of information comes via a local news sheet that I picked up on a weekend holiday in Rockport: Bananas are terrible terrible luck on lobster boats.
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Tagged celery, lobster, lobster roll, sandwich, scallion, summer
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The Wednesday Tipple – Dark and Stormys and Sharks
It was Shark Week, so we marked the occasion by watching Jaws, which, in case you haven’t seen it since you were a kid, has lost none of its terror. That is one bad-ass shark.
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Tagged dark and stormy, ginger, refreshing, rum, shark, summer
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The Monday Treat – Watermelon and Campari Sorbet while there’s still summer left to enjoy it
It’s a well known piece of folk wisdom that we should make hay while the sun shines. I like to amend this to “eat watermelon while the sun shines.” Philosophers may want to argue the toss, but it’s a pretty … Continue reading
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Tagged Campari, ice cream, sorbet, summer, treat, vegetarian, watermelon
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This Dinner Will Get You Laid – roast chicken with 40 cloves of garlic – and a side order of wisdom
“Just older, not wiser,†was Alan’s take on turning 40, as we sat down to – what else – chicken with 40 cloves of garlic and a bottle of champagne.
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Tagged birthday, celebration, chicken, chicken with 40 cloves of garlic, cream brandy, dinner party, garlic, love, roasting, wine, wisdom
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The Wednesday Tipple – Headless Horsemen, and a Headless Woman
Walking down the midway at the Sussex County Fair, you could hardly fail to notice the booth containing the Headless Woman.
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Tagged bitters, cocktail, ginger ale, headless horseman, headless woman, orange, State fair, summer, tipple, vodka
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The Monday Treat – Strawberry Pineapple Snow Cones and Racing Pigs
So hands down the thing we were most looking forward to at the Sussex County Fair were the swimming pigs. “They race for Oreos!†Sold.
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Tagged ice, pineapple, racing pigs, snow cone, State fair, strawberries, summer, vegetarian
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This Dinner Will Get You Laid – Red Snapper with Fennel, Chick Peas and White Wine
Some days are days of excess, and no amount of early morning gymming can mitigate them. The Sussex County Fair was once such day.
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Tagged clean food, en papilotte, excess, fair, fennel, fish, seafood, snapper, summer, vegetarian, white wine
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The Wednesday Tipple – Lime Margarita
Confession: I pretty much never hear the word “tequila” without mentally adding the words “mocking bird”. This is what passes for fun in my life. So judge me.
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Tagged cocktail, ice, lime, margarita, salt, West Side Story
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The Monday Treat – ice cream with white chocolate salted caramel ice magic
I am highly aware that this is the kind of problem that most people in the world trade me for in an instant, but recently it’s been so hot in NYC that our overworked air conditioner has been flooding the … Continue reading
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Tagged brown sugar, caramel, duct tape, ice cream, salted caramel, Space, white chocolate
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Fattoush Salad, Hummus, and the unexpected risks of trapeezing
Too hot to walk quickly through the muggy Manhattan weather, I strolled along behind a couple of girls and listened to them chatting.
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Tagged chick peas, cucumber, hot, hummus, mint, no cook, pita, salad, summer, tomato, trapeeze
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