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This Dinner Will Get You Laid – homemade pesto with spaghetti
It really feels as though spring has finally, joyfully, arrived in New York. Baby ducklings are waddling through the park, a bird has made its nest in the back of my friend Keith’s air conditioner, which leaves him with something … Continue reading
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Tagged basil, garlic, parmesan, pasta, pesto, pine nuts, spaghetti, spring, tattoo, vegetarian
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This Dinner Will Get You Laid – Thoroughbred Pie
When I was a child we spent family holidays at the Headlands in Cornwall, a proper old-fashioned seaside hotel with a sprung-floor ballroom, a bar serving cocktails with plastic monkeys hanging from the glasses, and a dress-for-dinner dinner in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Betting, chocolate, date food, date night, Gambling, Headlands Hotel, Kentucky Derby, Las Vegas, Methodism, pastry, pie, Racing, Thoroughbred Pie
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This Dinner will Get You Laid – Salmon with pea mint puree and new potatoes
It’s been a week full of wedding anticipation – and the dinner that I have in mind is in keeping with the mood. Elegant food, old fashioned flavors, perfect with champagne and a silver candelabra.
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Tagged date, hats, Jersey potatoes, mint, new potatoes, peas, romance, royal wedding, salmon, wedding
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This Dinner Will Get You Laid – Roast Lamb with all the trimmings for Easter
A few weeks ago Jon and I went to Hungry In Brooklyn’s supper club, where we enjoyed lovely food, congenial company and a generally all round good time. And there was a dog called James. And there was lamb. … Continue reading
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Tagged beans, Easter, gravy, green beans, Hungry in Brooklyn, James, lamb, mint sauce, peas, roast potatoes, supper club
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The Monday Treat – Easter Egg Nests
I have given up chocolate for Lent, and so it is in great anticipation of Easter that I suggest this Monday treat. These nests also happen to be perfect if you find yourself needing to entertain children while, to pick … Continue reading
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Tagged chocolate, Easter, Easter Eggs, egg, holiday, treat
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This dinner will get you laid – a proper meat pie
There is currently a commercial on the tv where an infatuated suitor notices how much his girlfriend dotes upon her parents’ pet cat. The details of his dastardly plan no doubt forming in his mind he rushes home, turns his … Continue reading
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Tagged carrot, meat, onion, pastry, pie, steak, stew
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This Dinner Will Get You Laid – Penne alla Vodka
Despite spending quite a lot of time in Italy, I had never heard of penne alla vodka until I first came to New York. I sublet an apartment through Craig’s List, and the plan was that I would meet the … Continue reading
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Tagged garlic, onion, pasta, penne, tomato, tomato sauce, vegetarian, vodka
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This Dinner Will Get You Laid – Spaghetti Puttanesca
This pasta sauce is literally translated as tart’s or whore’s. The idea being, I believe, that only slovenly women would make a sauce entirely out of store cupboard ingredients. That said, there’s an alternate theory that says the sauce’s sharp … Continue reading
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Tagged garlic, olives, onion, tart, tomato, tomato sauce, vegetarian
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