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Articles by Jillian Bedell
Jillian is a magnificent ship. She lives on the beach in Mexico with her husband and two dogs where she reads, writes, walks and practices Nia.
Stuffed peppers mean nothing to me. I have no attachment to them whatsoever. We never had them in my house growing up. I made them last night simply because we had the ingredients in the …
Every single element was perfect. But was the whole greater than the sum of its parts? Last night at 7:17, with the assistance of a glass of Soave, I constructed a peerless tower of power: …
I cocked up dinner once again last night. I swear it wasn’t my fault. I had planned to bake bread and do poached eggs with asparagus and Camembert (awesome, right?) but there was a mishap. The dough …
We found beautiful fruit, vegetables and eggs at the mercado earlier today. In order to compensate for overindulging at our favorite neighborhood taqueria last night and a pizza feast of epic proportions planned for tomorrow, …
If you’re looking for something super simple, tasty and slightly lowbrow to make for dinner tonight, have I got the recipe for you. Populism! This is how I did it last night:
Ingredients
broccoli
italian sausage
penne pasta
olive oil
garlic
dry …
Last night I cooked a chicken upside down. No, not to serve some satanic cult of poultry, merely because I am scatterbrained. Fortunately, it turns out that I am incapable of ruining a roast chicken and we …
‘Cause it was friggin’ delicious. Also, chicken thighs! Here they’re called muslo de pollo and I’ve had a package of these mofos in the freezer since before Christmas. I’ll admit, I was intimidated. Although of late I’ve become …
Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye,
Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.
Our friends at The Manhattan Food Project mentioned something about meat pies recently, which never fails to remind me …
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We ate a lot of shellfish in Maine. We scarfed dozens of Pemaquid oysters and buckets of tiny, briny clams, softish-shelled lobsters stuffed …
Christmas the day has come and gone but the season doesn’t end until the tree comes down. On New Year’s Day we will make resolutions; will eat the last of the leftover camembert and make …
