Spicy Shrimp With Bacon Over Polenta
We spent the late afternoon at the playground, the one that overlooks the ocean. It was unusually warm and many families were lingering as…
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Easy Shakshuka Recipe With Feta
Every year without fail, our lives look entirely different than they did the year before. At this time 12 months ago I was flying…
Thai Coconut Curry Corn Soup
I could go on about the perfection of fall for another forty years, and probably I will. Fall makes you feel. Eliot is of course…
Seared Halloumi and Roasted Vegetable Sandwich
After college, when Malcolm moved into his own, one-bedroom apartment in Astoria Queens, I rode the train to New York a lot. I had an…
Spicy Cranberry Pepper Chutney
My favorite Thanksgiving movie is Pieces of April. It is ugly and unresolvable, and not necessarily a great film, but one I like a lot…
Cucumber Wasabi Gazpacho
College summers were strange, in-between seasons. Having experienced some independence going home for three months was stifling, but also happily familiar. I would…
Mexican Chocolate Cake
Once upon a time in Mexico I got married in front of a fountain and a defrocked priest and friends and family, under a…
Lobster Noodle with Hot and Spicy Scallion Butter
I almost didn’t get the lobster. It wasn’t cheap. And I was all, dammit, I live in Rockland, Maine! I should just wade into…
Tex-Mex Migas
I’ve never been to Austin, Texas. A mythic city of beauty and music, where oddness and individuality are celebrated. “If I could ever be…
Hot & Spicy Italian Drip Beef (Homemade)
Today’s sandwich is the “Hot & Spicy Italian Drip Beef.” It combines hot shredded beef and spicy peppers on a toasted sub roll with…
Nashville Hot Chicken
Is the “Spicy Crispy Chicken Sandwich” from Wendy’s not enough to get your heart racing anymore? Have you beaten every hot Buffalo wing eating…
The “Blazin’ Wing Challenge” at Buffalo Wild Wings: A Photostory
Buffalo wing chain Buffalo Wild Wings has something called the “Blazin’ Wing Challenge.” For $12.00, you get a dozen of the chain’s chicken wings,…