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05/28/13 • CHICKEN CUTLETS WITH TOMATOES From the June/July, 2013 Fine Cooking There’s nothing like the anticipation of big events in your life (and the arrival of your 5th decade!) to spur change, which I suppose explains why Alfredo and I have recently made some alterations to our way of doing things—specifically in the realm of food. This isn’t the first time we’ve made such tweaks but it is the only occasion I ca

05/14/13 • PASTA PRIMAVERA Adapted from Canal House Cooking, Vol. no. 3 (winter and spring) Repeat a phrase often enough and it’s bound to lose something of its original meaning. Such is the case with pasta primavera, a dish that originated to celebrate and spotlight spring’s early glories, but that today has come to mean pretty much any pasta dish featuring pretty much any vegetable, regardless of seasonality. Of co

05/07/13 • GLUTEN-FREE GRIDDLE CAKES From the May, 2013 Bon Appétit When I was a kid one of the few things my dad cooked was pancakes, an event that tended to happen on Sunday mornings, but infrequently enough that it was still cause for excitement. As with a lot of men of his generation, making pancakes (along with barbecuing) was one of the few cooking tasks that fell within his domain, which makes me wonder what t