Thoughts of a Middle Aged Man

Last Thursday and today, my friend Nick and I attended a sauce cooking class put on by the Laguna Culinary Arts school. Thursday’s class was sauces for meat and today’s class was sauces for fish. We had the same instructor that we had for the pasta classes we attended a while back.
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For our trip to New York, I did a lot of investigating of restaurants to complement our daily adventures. I wanted to go to Babbo’s, Mario Batali’s place in the Village, but we couldn’t score a reservation, so I secured a reservation at Mesa Grill, Bobby Flay’s flagship place. Its on 5th [...]

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My Dad use to say the difference between a regular meal and a gourmet meal is the gourmet meal has more butter. Gary, one of the Seamhead Tour members, was asked by his kids his favorite food, in anticipation of preparing his answer for his birthday meal. His answer was sauce, anything with [...]

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I got my recipe page back up and running. Just click on the my recipe link in the blog roll to the right. In response to a special request, I posted a new recipe, my simple marinara sauce. I will work on getting the recipes site cleaned up, but at least everyone [...]

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I would thought I would spend one post to catch up on a lot of past subjects, so here it goes

I ran 9 miles the last two Sunday’s with better times each Sunday. Yesterday I finished in 82 minutes, which is much faster than I planned. I am getting better at pacing myself, [...]

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I am going to move my recipes to my new website My Cookbook. That way I won’t clog the blog with long recipes, and all the recipes will be found in a single location. It will also get me more space to let me comment on food in general. I will first [...]

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