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November/December 2016: Misc Cooking Adventures

(Pictured: Migas Fried Rice, Tofu with Mint and Sauteed Bean Sprouts. See Bon Appetit Dinner Party below.)

My cooking was all over the place. (In a good way.) There is no coherent theme to today’s blog post. It’s just a bunch of stuff that happened over the last few months of 2016.

Some of the cooking adventures were on-going over the course of a few weeks. In some cases, I would start a cooking project, and then loop back on it a month and a half later. (More on that later.) So today’s blog post is organized by dish, not by event.

Also, the title says November, but our story starts as late as late October. More after the cut!

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Chicken Bacon Tomato Cream Sauce

I like sauces. I think they’re the ultimate expression of pure flavor. A pasta is a good delivery mechanism for sauce. So I decided to make a tomato cream sauce.

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May/June 2016: Knife Skills Practice

I think I mentioned this before, but my one weakness as a cook is that I’m slow with prepwork, especially in the knife skills department. So in late May/early June, I asked my friends for suggestions for what to make to practice my knife skills.

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September 2015: Knife Skills Month

So my cooking blog shows that I’m a pretty decent cook. (Or at least a cook who makes decently pretty food.) But my downfall is that I’m slow. Particularly in the knife skills. It takes me a while to chop everything I need. So this month, I devoted some time to practicing my knife skills.

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July 2015: Chef Watson Month

For those of you who don’t remember, Watson is the AI who beat Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings in a game of Jeopardy.

Well, Watson is a chef now (among other things). So I decided to work on a few recipes from his book.

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Cinco de Mayo 2015

So I’ve already had several blog entries about Cinco de Mayo last year, and the practice runs that led up to it. I enjoyed cooking Mexican dinner so much that, even though it was the most work I’ve done, I decided to do it again.

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Yes, Tomatoes Are Vegetables

Almost everyone has heard, at some point in their lives, the saying “a tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable”. It’s one of those things that sounds clever, but once you really start to think about it, once you start to do some research on it, it starts to unravel really quickly. I want to talk about tomatoes today and how the saying “a tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable” is just plain misleading.

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July 2014 Cooking Double Feature

So as I may have alluded to earlier, I’m in California visiting some friends and family. And like I said before, I would cook for my family and friends.

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June 2014: Appetizer Month

So I’m a bit late to this, what with it being July and all. But I decided June was appetizer month. I was gonna learn how to make a few appetizers so I could bring some to the July 4 party later this year, and cook up the rest as part of a meal for my family when I visited them in California.

Let’s start in chronological order…

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Dwayne Cooks Dinner, March 2014 Edition

Saturday, March 1, 2014 – Photos of food are great and all, but it’s even better if people can actually eat my food. So I threw another dinner party for my friends.

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