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A unique blog where I'll share what cooking has taught me over the years along with some amazing recipes I've tried and adapted.

07/25/2025

Today, we were gifted these beautiful lemons. This was only about 1/3 of the bounty. That means, lemon pasta is coming next week to the Napa Farmers Market . If you know, you know that Pasta Poetry has the best lemon pasta around! Come see us on 8/2/25 for the fruits of my labor. Thanks Jessica Harcourt for making this happen and Jim Kelly for helping zest and juice these beauties.

07/21/2025

A friend went to London. A friend told me about a kale lumache dish she had. I googled and found and the Kale Lumache recipe. Here it is recreated with spinach cavatappi. It was fantastic...and beautifully green.

07/20/2025

Cover me in sunshine...this beautiful sous vide tenderloin over a silky sweet corn sauce. And that charred orange looks like the sun.

07/16/2025

Summer Saffron with the bits and bobs. So fu***ng good.

07/11/2025

The random bits always make such a lovely dish and friends, .cheese is legit fu***ng good. This had the herb and sun dried tomatoe "cheese" in the sauce. It's fantastic and I've never believed vegan cheese should be a thing but damn, this bomb.

07/10/2025

This dish blew my fu***ng mind. Sous vide pork tenderloin with a Nadia cherry sauce. It was FanF**kingTastic!!

07/05/2025

The only kind of firework I'm interested in today. This beautiful tangle of fettuccine in a light tomato coulis. She was dazzling.

06/23/2025

Honestly, making dinner tonight feels like playing "Nearer My God To Thee" while the ship sinks. But, here it is. The first of summer tomatoes and a pan fried shrimp over a lime, ginger, garlic rice. Iceberg dead ahead...

06/20/2025

Can any of you tell me what this is? It's something I've never seen before and let me tell you, it was delicious!!

06/18/2025

Things I learned from Chef Anne Burrell

1. Brown Food Tastes Good
2. How to properly hold my knife - no sharpie on my finger
3. Slices, Sticks, Dices
4. GGS is the key to Asian Seasoning
5. Searing meat needs a resounding round of applause
6. Raviolo de uovo
7. Cute skirts and red clogs are all the rage in the kitchen.

This woman taught me so much even though I never met her. Rest in Peace, Chef Anne. I learned so much from watching you cook/teach. Today, the world lost a bad ass chef.

06/13/2025

"I Knew You Were Trouble" pasta. This Cavatappi is so fu***ng persnickety to create. It extrudes wierd, it doesn't dry like all the others, and sometimes it just flat out won't cooperate...it's my soul sister. But, when it works, it's beautiful!!

06/12/2025

Gorgeous Golden Egg Ribbons served with a Shish*to Pepper Pesto. When we make fresh pasta, we get fresh pasta for dinner...the bits and bobs that can't be sold, we eat. It's always a good day!!

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