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Spicy Peanut Butter and Pork Belly Sandwich

Historically I haven’t been a big fan of “fancy” peanut butter because most of them don’t add sugar or salt. Since I grew up on Skippy, it just doesn’t taste right to me unless it’s been flavored. The problem with most common grocery store brands of peanut butter is that they include a long list of additives that don’t belong in food.

Enter Peanut Butter & Co. They make the perfect all-natural peanut butter, because they flavor their PB with good stuff like like cane juice, maple syrup, salt, and vanilla, while omitting all the crap you can’t pronounce. I also love that they have ten flavors with catchy names like The Bee’s Knees, and Mighty Maple. continue →

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Croissant Breakfast Sandwich

There isn’t a long story, or even a recipe for this croissant breakfast sandwich, but this photo was just too pretty not to share. It also tasted every bit as good as it looks, thanks in large part to a buttery, flakey croissant from Bouchon Bakery. Happy labor day weekend! continue →

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Hoisin ginger burgers with lime pickled onions

July 10, 2008
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After subsisting on poutine and foie gras for a weekend, I felt in dire need of some good ole Amur’cun food… Except I also wanted to enter it into the Build The Best Burger Recipe Contest hosted by Marx Foods, which meant I couldn’t just do my favourite classic burger with a huge juicy beef [...]

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Spicy Asian subs and the Philharmonic in the park

June 25, 2008
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About 5pm today I got an IM from L that the New York Philharmonic Orchestra was playing in Central Park at 8pm. Given the amazing weather today I decided to run home and pack a picnic dinner that we could eat in the park. I just happened to pick up a baguette at the farmers [...]

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