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Sabado Mañana

While listening to inspiring mariachi music, made fresh tortillas and slow cooked scrambled eggs for a lazy Saturday morning breakfast. Don’t think I could ever go back to store bought tortillas.

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Bucket List 2.012

In retrospect, I’m a little disappointed in myself.  Since 2009, I’ve only been able to knock off four restaurants in my bucket list – Grey’s Papaya, Jean Georges, Alinea, and TRU.  Maybe I need to be more realistic.  If that’s the case, I will have to fill in the blanks with more attainable choices.  We’ll […]

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the top ten things I ate in 2011

2011 has definitely been a year of good eats for me.  Hitting two restaurants from my bucket list, Alinea and Tru, were the highlights and the food did not disappoint.  Throughout the year, though, there were many surprises.  Below is my list of the best of what was on g-fork’s plate this year (and in […]

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taking another stab with the fork

Here’s a re-imagining of g-fork, once again.  This is its third incarnation in eight years.  Yes, g-fork is that old.  If you are curious what the original g-fork looked like, you can check it out on the wayback machine.  I am still making small tweaks to the site, but this is what it is and […]

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trees, please

I just ate a big o’ bowl full of broccoli.  Just broccoli.  Steamed al dente, but without mayo (my mom’s preferred accoutrement), cheese , butter, or whatever else people put on it.  As I was slicing the flower heads from the stalk, I had a flashback of being six years old, sitting at the white […]

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a brief history of Thanksgiving, 2011

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I am, I said.

My dad eats everything with chopsticks.  He has for as long as I can recall.  Cottage cheese, salad, watermelon, spaghetti, oatmeal, eggs, even the bits at the bottom of soup, not to mention meat, fish, and rice.   So it’s no wonder that, after making a plate of stir fried baby Brussels sprouts, the first utensil […]

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d’oh! nuts

Sometimes, my life surprises me.  Take for instance, doughnuts.  I am a baker’s daughter.  I grew up surrounded by amazing, fresh baked goods and confections.  My dad’s cookies are still in my dreams – butternut, peanut butter, oatmeal, but most of all he used to make kick-ass chocolate chip cookies.  So good, in fact, when […]

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chili today

Cold weather is here which means it’s chili season.

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dessert for one

Dinner alone?  Check. Bottle of pinot?  Check. Semi-sweet chocolate?  Check. Eggs?  Check. Flour?  Check. Confectioner’s sugar?  Check. Frozen raspberries?  Check. Lemons?  Check. Heavy cream?  Check. Nothing better to do tonight?  Check.

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