Yes, there were oranges. Lots of them! But what I’ll remember most about my trip to Valencia (aside from the sunshine and excellent company) is the 5-course lunch I had at the Seu Xerea “lounge restaurant.” It was easily the best 12 Euros I have ever spent. Delicious, fresh, high-quality, creative dishes fusing Mediterranean and Asian [...]
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Cooking Failures
Posted in Recipes, tagged cake stuck, disaster in the kitchen, help, I can't cook!, recipe failures on 05/12/2010 | 8 Comments »
Cooking something delicious is really much more satisfactory than painting pictures or making pottery. At least for most of us. Food has the tact to disappear, leaving room and opportunity for masterpieces to come. The mistakes don’t hang on the wall or shelves to reproach you forever. -Jean Grigson, Good Things (1971) I was chatting [...]
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