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cornmeal-crusted fried soft-shell crabs
There are days I’m productive. Things get crossed off the list, I feel a sense of real accomplishment. I even high-five myself. In my head. Other days, I stare at my cuticles trying to remember when...
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hake with olive oil, butter, and lemon
Things they should tell you when you’re writing a book. You will spend three times as much time on it as you think you will. Plan accordingly. Life will happen as you fast-approach deadline and you...
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branzino with roasted grapes
You would think that working from home might mean that we dine on fancy, elaborate dinners, and that Andrew eats like royalty around here. I run an elaborate ruse: come weekdays, we’re all about quick...
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pasta con le sarde – pasta with sardines
Last winter, while Andrew was away for work, his cousin Mike happened to be in town. Mike is an entrepreneur who lives in Boston, and if I had to catergorize the kind of person Mike is, well, he’s a...
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spicy tunisian fish stew (chreime)
I’ve been thinking about this space in the last few weeks: how it changes with time. Life, itself, isn’t static, so it would be intuitive to think of this as a dynamic space. A year ago, Friday’s...
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tuna tartare
When life, or in this case, a good friend, gives you freshly caught yellowfin tuna that her father-in-law caught days before (as in never frozen), you say thank you. And then you say thank you again....
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pan-seared branzino with orange-fennel salad
These days I test my recipes when I have time to test them – which is not nearly as often I want to, or at a time of day that’s convenient. When I feel that I’ve made enough progress for the day in my...
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brita’s roasted salmon with green herbs
I had such lofty plans for August. No, really, I did. I was going to take it easy. Luxuriate, if you will, for the first time in I can’t even remember how long. Take a month to just have a little...
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fish stew with fennel and potatoes
Friends, I’m in the deep throes of stitching together a book before I send it to my co-authors for review and edits, before we send it to our editor by August 1. There’ve been lots of early mornings...
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slow-roasted salmon with citrus and herb salad
I am always on the hunt for weeknight dinner ideas that take less than 30 minutes to make and are largely hands off. Anyone with young kids is no stranger to the evening scramble of dinners, baths,...
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