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Duck Feast [Cooking]

March 8, 2012

It’s always good fun getting together with buddies to cook, and my friends Matt and Aaron and I have been talking about doing that for a while. After some scheduling conflicts, we finally pulled it off a few weeks ago, deciding to cook a little duck. Which ended up being a big understatement. I purchased […]

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Duck Confit

January 17, 2011

As someone who claims to be really into cooking, it’s embarrassing to admit I’ve never done a proper batch of duck legs confit. Once I basically did it with the two legs on a whole duck I purchased, but I wasn’t able to render enough fat to fully cover the duck, so I had to […]

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Thomas Keller Tomato Tartare

March 19, 2010

Months ago I attended a fantastic multicourse dinner by Decatur Wine and Food Dude, and though all the dishes were impressive, I was blown away by the French Laundry salad of haricots verts, tomato tartare, and chive oil. The concentrated flavor of the tomato is explosive while remaining natural. The cool whipped beans, the glowing […]

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Fried Pork Belly Confit Taco

March 12, 2010

My post on the pork belly confit from the Ad Hoc at Home cookbook is far and away my most viewed post of the last four months, having almost three thousand page views. I think most of it has to do with the excellent photography by Broderick, but I think part of it is because […]

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Quick Bite: Muss & Turner’s Brunch

November 5, 2009

Muss & Turner’s is only a few miles up the road from me, and I don’t go as often as I should, but I’ve hit them up a couple of times over the last two weeks. The first time I went for some bar snacks and a few glasses of wine with Ed from Wine […]

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Ad Hoc at Home: Pork Belly Confit

October 29, 2009

Part of the reason I put the Land of Plenty series to bed is because last week I received a bevy of new cookbooks, among them, the highly anticipated cookbook from Thomas Keller – Ad Hoc at Home. There’s been a lot of press surrounding this book launch, so there’s a good chance you’ve heard […]

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