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Shrimp Etouffee | Bridging the Gap

Hello, friends! Today we’re changin’ it up and doing a guest post for Gwen over at Bunkycooks. Head over there to see what we made with our winter garden pepper this week… And because we’re still giving stuff away, make sure you leave a comment (at Bunkycooks) for your chance at a box of herbs. Happy day! [...]

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Multi-Tasking at the RGB | Garden Tomato Sauce

August at the RGB means we’re swimming in tomatoes. This month alone we’ve had RGB tomatoes in our pasta, in a pizzetta, under some burrata, over some toast, sliced with salt… and most recently, in homemade tomato sauce. For us, homemade tomato sauce ranks high on the small effort / big return scale. It only [...]

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First Impressions

I knew I’d marry Mr. RGBistro before we were even dating. A couple of years ago we had arranged to spend a mid-week evening together. We’d been bragging about our home-cook skills and decided it was time to flex them. Mr. RGB volunteered his bachelor kitchen, which I accepted because it seemed a lot better [...]

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Food Foray # 2.2

If you missed it, this is the follow-up post to Food Foray # 2.1. Last week, I pulled the meat out of two cooked King crab legs to make a crab manicotti appetizer for a Holiday Dinner At Home with Barry’s daughters. While the appetizer turned out okay, I think I’m gonna keep playing with [...]

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Brown-Nosing The Boss

In December 2008, I volunteered to cater my office’s Holiday Party. Around the same time, I invited one of the owners to lunch, just to get to know him a little bit better. At that lunch, I learned three things: he was a self-declared introvert, he enjoyed pinot noirs, and he loved pasta puttanesca, but [...]

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The Vietnamese Italian | Garden Herb Spaghetti Bolognese

Growing up, I loved my mother’s spaghetti and my aunt’s lasagna. While I have no idea what was in my aunt’s lasagna, my mother’s spaghetti sauce recipe was simple: sauté one onion. Add a pound of ground beef. Discard fat. Add package of Lawry’s Spaghetti Seasoning. Add can of tomato sauce. Salt, pepper and serve [...]

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Award Winning… for Most Ingredients Used | Football Chili

In our previous lives as urban planners, the office we worked at participated in the Tustin Street Fair and Chili Cook-Off. In 2008, our “Ring of Fire” chili even took 2nd place in the People’s Choice Award. (We maintain we only didn’t win because we couldn’t compete with corporate-volume Tustin Brewing Company.) We also think looping 16 [...]

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