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Pesto Pizza
The other day, I bought a pre-made sourdough pizza crust with the intention of having an easy meal option during my hectic summer break. Puttering between playing Candy Crush Saga, harvesting my crops...
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Roasted Herbed Pork Tenderloin
When my wife and I moved in together after dating for a year, we got an apartment in my home town of Fountain Valley, California, right across the street from Fountain Bowl, the past host of the PBA’s...
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Mexican Lasagna
I got this recipe out of the Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook and tweaked it a bit. The authors call this a casserole, but I heartily disagree. This is a lasagna, except that corn tortillas are...
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Garlic Chicken Stir Fry
Somewhere along the line, and I am thinking Emeril had a lot to do with this, people started going crazy with the garlic. I mention Emeril because every time he would add garlic to a recipe he was...
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Carol’s Calzones
When calzones started to become ubiquitous in pizza parlors in California in the early 90’s, I was intrigued because they were not like the ones we had growing up. The ones that they started serving...
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Walnut Gorgonzola Fettuccine
Things I’ve learned upon turning into a 40 year-old man 1. If you have children, everything you did as a child comes back to haunt you amplified times 7. 2. There is no shame in spending a good...
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T.J.’s Arugula and Parmesan Ravioli with Easy Homemade Pesto
As the years progress, I keep adding to my list of items that I will no longer buy in a grocery store: croutons, pot pies, Brut Aftershave, certain salad dressings, frozen cream pies, pizza rolls,...
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Balsamic Glazed Chicken with Mushrooms, Polenta, and Goat Cheese
This would seem complex, but ’tis quite easy, and I have a story that illustrates this concept. While seven of my years were in the 1970’s, and my late teens and twenties were in the 1990’s (and I am...
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Toad in the Hole
I’m an Anglo- and Hiberno-phile (a lover of things English and Irish, that is). I’ve been to Ireland twice and I have seen Toad in the Hole on a few pub menus, but I never ordered it. For whatever...
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Chickpeas and Pasta
“Just go away.” I have uttered this often to my teenage students, in a variety of contexts, over the last twelve years since I started teaching high school English. I’ll say it as I attempt to take...
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