June 17, 2013 In All recipes, Bakery/Pastry, Seafood, Snacks

poorman’s lobster roll

Right.  I apologize for my "rare" unprofessionalism last time.  Can we start over?  I promise I'll keep it together this time because oh boy this faux-lobster roll is too delicious to miss out on.  But it's strange to compose this post because the day I cooked it, my doggy-Armageddon-day had not been realized, and staring back on the make-funny-"when life gives you shrimp, make lobster roll"-line that I drew up then to mock my general cheap-ass style, it now seems to actually speak to me on a philosophical level

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April 10, 2013 In All recipes, Meat, Snacks

Loser double fennel potstickers

Being competitive has never been part of my persona. It isn't one of the virtues of being a quitter, which I like to use as the reason I was never good at sports and why until this very day, I still cannot technically swim (but I float professionally). It's not that I'm not into winning but just that I don't like to be proven losing. I'm a walking cliche. But recently I have been braving the turbulent water for the love of my new favorite website and the recipe contest they throw every two weeks. I entered two contests thus far and both didn't even make it to the final rounds, which theoretically would have put my mind into the same state of a cautious clam who just got firmly tapped on its head. But instead I reached a new understanding about being a loser. The trick to losing is

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January 18, 2013 In All recipes, Meat, Quick Meals, Snacks

Fully Loaded Baguette

(繁體)  (简体) Wow!  What a weekend last Saturday, uh?!  Golden Globes?  Did you watch it?  What a fantastic sequence of showmanship one after the next uh?  First came Jodie Foster's neurotic ramblings of a speech though I'm not going to argue with the world who apparently thought she was phenomenal.  Then Oh-glory's-the-name-of-vengeance Ben Affleck won best director and fired a bullet with his love-declaration for Gardner right in the heart of who else but J "LOW"!  Oh snap!!  And how about Ann Hathaway giving all she's got on an AMAZING performance acting surprised at winning supporting actress!  Flaaaaawless!  That's another award in itself I'm telling ya.  OH oh and Kristen and Will's HILARIOUS little team-up was PURE comedy gold!  Missed it?  Geeet ooout of heeerree!!  Finally FINALLY Tina Fay and Amy Poehler's opening act was marriage made in heaven

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