July 2009

Smacznego!

July 26, 2009

What do you get when you cross a talented Jewish woman with a funny Polish guy? Well, in my case we added in some Hungarian recipes and wound up with an amazing dinner with a lot of laughs. My Aunt Carole is a brilliant woman. A lawyer by training, she currently manages a busy plastic-surgery [...]

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Tilefish versus Dolphin

July 24, 2009

On the way down to Cape May, Kevin and I called his parents and sister Shelley to let them know we would be running late and that they could start dinner without us.‘And by the way,’ I asked, ‘what’s for dinner?’‘Tilefish and Dolphin,’ Kevin’s dad, George, replied.‘Where did it come from?’ I wondered.‘Cape May Canyons,’ [...]

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World’s Best Scones

July 17, 2009

Every once in a while I get weird food cravings. This one was for scones with fig jam. My body was very specific–not strawberry or blueberry jam, not marmelade–fig jam. I’ve only had it once before, a few years ago during a lovely holiday visit with my brother-in-law Michael’s family in Annapolis, MD. Mike’s mom, [...]

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Lighthouse Restaurant

July 1, 2009

Days upon days of dreary rain stopped for a few blissful hours. In a fortunate stroke of timing, as the sun came out, Kevin and I found the Lighthouse Restaurant. We had been doing some outlet shopping in Lewes, DE and were were driving up and down Route 1 looking for somewhere to eat. We [...]

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Oat Cookies

July 1, 2009

I finally made my Bubby’s oat cookies. Thanks to someone named Carole, I had help deciphering the handwriting. Carole left me a comment on this blog, but didn’t identify her last name so I’m going to assume the assistance was from my Aunt Carole. Really, who else would be able to recognize Bubby’s handwriting except [...]

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