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With the summer over (sad face) but the warm days of Indian Summer lingering on (happy face), this dish will be relavant for a few more weeks (for those who are super traditional about eating warm weather dishes only in warm weather). For me, this will be an excellent dish to eat after months of [...]

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Arroz con Gandules (Rice with Pigeon Peas): A Puerto Rican Must-Eat

Posted in bacon, capers, cheap meal, chops, Chorizo, cilantro, culture, olives, peas, pork, Puerto Rican, rice, Uncategorized on May 21st, 2010

When our readers actually read our posts, it feels really good. Because we often write a lot in our post, it is understandable why some may choose not to actually read our words. We understand how many blogs exist, and many only have time to do the “blog drive-by” (you know what I’m talking about [...]

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Welcoming in 2009 with Salmon Rillettes.

Posted in appetizer, butter, capers, fennel, France, French, Recipe, Recipes, salmon on Jan 4th, 2009

It’s been a nice, long and relaxing break. We hope you all had a wonderful holiday season! It’s good to be back, but it’s difficult to write about food when all you can think about is avoiding it for a bit to detox from the holidays. This holiday season we ate like kings, we drank a lot [...]

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Friday Night Delight/Fright: Fish n’Chips

Posted in ale, batter, beef tallow, beer, British, butter, capers, chips, crispy, easy, egg, fish, french fries, fried, history, Jewish, lard, Manchester, mushy peas, oil, olives, peas, Portuguese, Recipe, Recipes, salt, sauce, seafood, side dish, tartar, tradition, travel, vegetables, vinegar on Oct 31st, 2008

Happy Hallowe’en, WANF readers! Instead of posting shots of us dressed up in costume as the tastiest parts of a pig’s anatomy, we’re celebrating All Soul’s Day and the arrival of a much-needed weekend with a classic Friday night dish from the British Isles (where in truth, Hallowe’en has never really caught on in the [...]

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I’ve Still Got (Soft-Shell) Crabs! Leftover Soft-Shell Crab Sandwiches with Pepper Aioli and Capers

Posted in butter, cabbage, capers, chipotle, crab, easy, lemon, New Jersey, Olive Oil, peppers, Recipe, Recipes, sandwiches, sauce, soft-shell on Jun 28th, 2008

So now you’ve searched high and low for soft-shell crabs, maybe to make Soft-Shell Crabs with Butter and Garlic and a side of Aglio e Olio? I can just see it – you finally find them and, in a panic, you decide to spend part of your life savings so you can put a bunch [...]

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Following “La Seleccion” with a Selection of Tapas

Posted in appetizer, beer, bread, capers, cheese, easy, eating, England, Food Commentary, healthy, Jose Andres, lemon, mackerel, manchego, morcilla, peppers, pinchos, pintxos, piquillo peppers, racione, sausage, savory, seafood, soccer, Spain, Squid, tapas on Jun 8th, 2008

In celebration of the start of Euro 2008 – the European soccer/football championships – yesterday, and in light of the fact that England failed to qualify because they were awful, I am in need of a team to follow, so have decided to become an honorary Spanish soccer fan for the next month, or however [...]

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Remembering Italy with Thin Crust Pizza at Home – Why Make Pizza Any Other Way?

Posted in anchovies, basil, Brooklyn, capers, cheap meal, cheese, cornmeal, culture, delicacy, easy, Europe, Food Commentary, Garlic, important details, Italian, Italy, mushrooms, Olive Oil, onions, Park Slope, pie, Pizza, rant, Recipe, Recipes, restaurant, Roman, sauce, technique, tourism, tradition, travel, truffles, vegetarian, vinaigrette on Apr 14th, 2008

We love pizza. We LOVE pizza. If we could eat one thing for the rest of our lives it would be pizza. During our seven weeks spent in Italy over the past two years, we collectively ate over sixty pizzas. This is not a lie, an exaggeration or a pipe dream. We were not force-fed, [...]

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Eating the Easter Bunny and Our First Podcast

Posted in America, bay, braised, bunny, capers, chicken stock, delicacy, dining, diversity, Easter, eating, flour, game, healthy, hearty, lower fat, Meat, mustard, olives, onions, parsley, podcast, Provencal, rabbit, rosemary, savory, slow cooking, thyme on Mar 27th, 2008

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It’s the Thursday after Easter and most people out there are still picking the candy and chocolate out of their teeth having just gorged themselves on all manner of Easter Bunny-shaped confectionery. Ever the destroyers of convention, we have been doing something altogether more real and, some may say, sinister. Yes, friends, cover your children’s [...]

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Amazingly, An Actual Original Pork Chop Recipe – Braised Pork Chops with Lime and Olives (And a Side of Mashed Yuca)

Posted in alcaparrado, allspice, avocado, capers, chile, chops, cilantro, lime, Olive Oil, olives, orange juice, pork, Recipe, Recipes, spicy, yucca on Nov 5th, 2007

I used to make these braised pork-chops quite regularly – several times a year, but I hadn’t made them for probably a year until last Thursday when Amy and I realized that we hadn’t even eaten pork chops for about four months. The recipe is actually one of my originals, although I’m sure there are [...]

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