Tag: family food
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Cottage Blueberry Crumb Cake & Broken Hearts
My 12-year-old holds a heart in his hands. “Do you like the blue?” he asks. We’re in Venice, a place known for glass beads and tiny fragile animals. I nod. Jamie has always associated me with blue as he knows it’s my favorite color. “Who is the necklace for?” Jamie’s dad asks him and Jamie… Read more
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Italian Plum Tart (Crostata alla Confettura di Prugne) & Finding Treasures
This is a classic southern Italian dessert, though my favorite time to eat this is in the morning. I especially like the crisp pastry and the tart plum when we’re down to the last few slices and the very last one is a bit stale, and thus crunchy and I can peck at the crumbs… Read more
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Super Sticky Thai Chicken Wings & Pieces of String
So there’s this old New England tale – the kind that gets passed along from one old fisherman to another, then handed down to me when I worked on boats and cooked on a wood stove or a diesel one, up at 4am and in bed at 11pm (the nights that prepared me well for… Read more
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Zucchini Chocolate Chip Loaf, Parmesan Zucchini & A Vegetable that Requires Cooking
This is what is known in the food industry as a shitload of zucchini. Oh, it’s not that much you say? This is just from this morning. NOT this afternoon. NOT tomorrow. I have to start this post by stating a few facts: I am in Italy at my dad’s house (read: not on the… Read more