Tom McGee

Birthday Paella

February 15th, 2010 | 0 Comments | Food |

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Christmas

December 25th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Food, Home |

Not much to write today, except Merry Christmas to all.

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Potato Salad

December 2nd, 2009 | 0 Comments | Food |

Yesterday in a meeting at work someone brought up the potato salad I made for a staff party in Summer 2008. I guess it was memorable — in fact, I was always pretty sure I should win a prize for it. The Nobels have already been given out, but maybe there’s another? Anyway, here it is…

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Happy Thanksgiving

November 26th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Family, Food, Home |

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Two Movies About French Food

September 8th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Food, Movies |

Babette’s Feast and Julie and Julia.

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Cuban Pete’s

September 7th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Food |

My new favorite restaurant. Great tapas and sangria, terrific service with an atmosphere and decor that’s pure genius.
Tapas are $3.50 – $5, main courses in the $12 – $15 range. LF and I started with an assortment of the former, a couple different kinds of empanadas, a beef-and-potato hash with plantains, and something amazing [...]

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Lunch

June 25th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Food |

At the Galloping Hill Inn in Union, NJ.

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Truffle Tremor

June 15th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Food |

How good can cheese be?

You have no idea.

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Happy Easter

April 11th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Food, Home |

Christmas is overrated. Easter is what it’s all about. Enjoy.
I’m playing at two services at the local church in the morning, then having LF over for a nice dinner of lamb shanks with shallots and mushrooms. Grilled vegetables, potatoes roasted with olive oil and thyme, and avacado and tomato salad round out the menu. Blood [...]

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Broken Recipe?

March 20th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Food |

I’m a pretty solid cook, if I do say so myself. But this one flummoxed me. Any ideas?

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Lost and Found

February 16th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Food, Home, Travelogues |

While E. and I were hiking on Watchung Reservation this afternoon, we found the foundations of an abandoned building, and lying nearby in plain sight this souvenir.

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Have A Salad, Perhaps?

January 12th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Comedy, Food |

We got a chuckle out of this arrangement of magazines at the supermarket checkout yesterday.

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