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Scallops are the best way to quick dinner on a weeknight.
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When your good friends bring back high quality tinned fish from Paris, your Tuesday night get’s poppin fast.
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This year we had a very crabby Mother’s Day to mark our first foray into the holiday as parents!
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A bit of chile and tons of seafood is the cure for a spring that’s not warming up fast enough.
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All we did was make some ramp pesto - the sausage was all Homestead Meats in Evanston.
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this was a breakfast taco. ask me to remember anything else about it other than that and I’ll probably tackle you.
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Well, 10 years of doing this thing has come and gone. I suppose it’s mostly fitting we didn’t do anything special (we were technically back in Indiana for Thanksgiving). Things are changing for us but I have no intention of doing anything other than...
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Fish stew with some crunchies inspired by xoco caldos.
- fire roasted tomato
- ancho chile
- poblano
- shrimp stock
- shrimp
- bay scallops
- whitefish
- red wine vinegar
- kosher salt
- garlic
- red onion
- white onion
- yukon gold...