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Flavor Fail: Beef Stroga-not
It’s not all roses and daisies here at GHT. We have high expectations and need to bring it. And once in a while, it happens. The plan executed, the food lookin’ nice, the...
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Dear Splenda: A (Shameful) Love Note
Dear Splenda: I remember the day we met. The Starbucks a few blocks north of Wall. A toiling BigLaw 3rd year. The days, nights, weekends all running together. Conference room...
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Garnish Fail Haiku
crunchy sugar crust spoons poised to tap and crackle white top fail butts in Not sure what I was thinking here, really. Just cutting off the tops would have saved t...
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Disappointing Donut Debacle
Lard. Maybe it was the lard I couldn’t find. Or the recipe from 1971, perhaps mis-transcribed. The memory isn’t incorrect, of this I’m sure. Those donuts were so good...
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Red Lobster Biscuit Fail
Dear Internet: My Red Lobster copycat biscuits? Terrible. Been a while since I’ve frequented Red Lobster. Only really remember the biscuits. I was thinking about those bisc...
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Easter Dinner Part II – Tri-Butter Veggie Platter
So we are done with the soup and popover course, on to the main meal! Let’s start with the veggie platter – three veg with three different compound butters: Green Beans with Or...
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Carnitas! (bet you thought it would be turkey)
Carnitas Taco Night! Who doesn’t love taco night. Given the week you’d think it would be a Thanksgiving recipe. We’ll get to that, but first let’s hit the meal we did...
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Chicken Piccata. Old School, man. Old School.
Chicken Piccata. There’s a dish you won’t find in the cutting-edge Manhattan culinary scene. Well, unless it’s served with caper foam, a savory lemon popsicle and parsley...
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BO SSAM! BO SSAM!!!
Nephew Ry was in town last week, playing at Carnegie Hall (he got there one way, I got up there via the Q local). So we hosted the extended fam at The Room for dinner the night ...
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Accidental Kale Soup
I didn’t intend to make kale soup. Rather, it was to be lightly wilted with butter, shallots and a bit of garlic. But my trimming of the stems was a bit lazy, and they just w...