Month: June 2005
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Shells and Beans
Years ago, when I first started cooking, in a small apartment in San Marcos, I found a cookbook called Looneyspoons. I tried lots of recipes from this book, and we loved all of them. Slowly, I bought more and more cookbooks, and this one got put on the shelf and sadly, forgotten about. Until this…
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A quick pick-me-up
Tiramisu is an Italian dessert that is traditionally light and airy, made of ladyfingers or sponge cake dipped in a mixture of coffee and marsala wine, then layered with creamy mascarpone cheese and grated chocolate. Tiramisu literally means “pick-me-up”, and it’s one of Justin’s favorite desserts. I decided to make an easy, Americanized version at…
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Mmmmmmanicotti…
I’d say aside from chocolate, one of may favorite foods is pasta. Any kind of pasta. I usually make penne or angel hair, spaghetti or rigatoni. I rarely make stuffed pastas because they seem like so much work. I decided to try this manicotti, though, not because it seemed easier (you don’t have to boil…