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Kalafiory w Cieście (Polish Cauliflower Pie)
Kalafiory w Cieście (Polish Cauliflower Pie)

“Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.” -Legendary American author, pistol, troubled entrepreneur, and avid traveller Mark Twain

Valrhona Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
Valrhona Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

“All you need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” -American cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, creator of the comic strip classic Peanuts

Short Rib Hash with Tri-Color Potatoes & Poached Egg
Short Rib Hash with Tri-Color Potatoes & Poached Egg

“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.” -Oscar Wilde, 19th century Irish trouble-maker, playwright, author, and style icon

Panko-Crusted Wild Salmon Burgers with Watercress Salad & Miso Dressing
Panko-Crusted Wild Salmon Burgers with Watercress Salad & Miso Dressing

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by it’s ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” -Albert Einstein, German-born patent clerk, scientific visionary, and enviably humble human

Parmigiano Reggiano, Black Pepper, & Buttermilk Biscotti
Parmigiano Reggiano, Black Pepper, & Buttermilk Biscotti

“No, I do not want a biscotti with that.” “God! How can you stand these assholes?” “Some people are OK, but mostly I just feel like poisoning everybody.” -Thora Birch’s Enid and Scarlett Johansson’s Rebecca reacting to a rude coffee shop customer in 2001′s indie darling Ghost World

Don Far Tong (Chinese Egg Drop Soup)
Don Far Tong (Chinese Egg Drop Soup)

“Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.” ―Samuel Clemens, better known as the one-and-only Mark Twain, American writer and travel enthusiast

Buttermilk Scones with Apple, Cheddar, & Thyme
Buttermilk Scones with Apple, Cheddar, & Thyme

“Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.” -Friedrich Nietzsche, German existentialist, nihilist, and polymath

Cardamom Scented Blueberry Buckle
Cardamom Scented Blueberry Buckle

“When any lagged behind, the cry of ‘blueberries’ was most effectual to bring them up.” -Henry David Thoreau, American poet, transcendentalist, and tree-hugger

Fried Eggs with Feta-Creamed Spinach, Tomato Confit, & Dill-Onion Crumbs
Fried Eggs with Feta-Creamed Spinach, Tomato Confit, & Dill-Onion Crumbs

“The hen is the egg’s way of making another egg.” -Victorian-era thinker, amateur evolutionist, utopian, and writer Samuel Butler

Wiener Schnitzel
Wiener Schnitzel

“Now take your wiener schnitzel lickin’ finger and point out on this map what I want to know.” -Mr. Pitt-comma-Bradley as Southern-born scalper Lt. Aldo Raine, getting very serious about his desire for Nazi whereabouts in Quentin Tarantino’s 2009 box-office smash Inglorious Basterds

Albóndigas de Bacalao (Spanish Salt Cod Balls)
Albóndigas de Bacalao (Spanish Salt Cod Balls)

“Fine, let’s take a vote. Who wants fish for dinner?…Yeah, democracy ain’t so fun when it f*&#s you, huh?” -Retired radiologist Sam Halpern on his son Justin’s famous Twitter account “Shit My Dad Says”

Stilton, Walnut, & Thyme Crackers
Stilton, Walnut, & Thyme Crackers

“Sometimes I think that boy’s cheese done slid right off his cracker!” -Melinda Mickens, shape-shifting deadbeat birth mother of Sam Merlotte, in HBO’s campy, sexy vampire drama True Blood

Spanakopita
Spanakopita

“Eat your spinach, you no good infink. Eat it. EAT IT. Eat it.” -Poopdeck Pappy, Popeye’s spitting image and reluctant, foul-mouthed father

Pluot Clafoutis
Pluot Clafoutis

“Would I blow everyone’s mind if I ate dessert first?” -The adorable Richard Ayoade as Reynholm Industries’ resident socially awkward über-nerd, Moss, on the hysterically funny Channel 4 comedy The IT Crowd

Souffléd Lemon, Poppyseed, & Ricotta Pancakes
Souffléd Lemon, Poppyseed, & Ricotta Pancakes

“I was making pancakes the other day and a fly flew into the kitchen. And that’s when I realized that a spatula is a lot like a fly-swatter. And a crushed fly is a lot like a blueberry. And a roommate is a lot like a fly eater.” -Demetri Martin, American Comedian & Smarty-Pants Polymath

Ragoût of Rabbit with Hand-Rolled Sweet Potato Gnocchi, Shiitake Mushrooms, & Pan Jus
Ragoût of Rabbit with Hand-Rolled Sweet Potato Gnocchi, Shiitake Mushrooms, & Pan Jus

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” -John Steinbeck, American novelist and writer of one of my most all-time most favoritest books (I have a lot of those), East of Eden

Ripe Banana & Toasted Walnut Yogurt Loaf
Ripe Banana & Toasted Walnut Yogurt Loaf

“Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.” -Groucho Marx, be-moustached, be-spectacled American comedian & vaudevillian

Herb-Baked Eggs with Creamy Sorrel Sauce
Herb-Baked Eggs with Creamy Sorrel Sauce

“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.” -George Orwell, brilliant English dystopian writer and socio-political critic

Savory Egg, Bacon, and Leek Tart
Savory Egg, Bacon, and Leek Tart

“I’d rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.” -Thomas Jefferson, American badass (and forefather, and yeah, President – but mostly a badass)

Orange and Cardamom Yogurt Loaf
Orange and Cardamom Yogurt Loaf

“Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears – it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear.” -Oliver Sacks, British neurologist, author, and all-around fascinating human

Grandma Rose's Date & Nut Pudding
Grandma Rose’s Date & Nut Pudding

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relatives.” -Oscar Wilde, late 19th century Irish playwright, poet, and author

Puff Pastry Fruit Tart
Puff Pastry Fruit Tart

“Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.” -Anton Chekhov, Russian writer and father of the modern short story

French Apple Tart
French Apple Tart

“In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.” -W. Somerset Maugham, English writer and author of one of my favorite books, The Razor’s Edge

Spaghetti Alla Carbonara
Spaghetti Alla Carbonara

“I’ll have the smiley face breakfast special. Uhh, but could you add a bacon nose? Plus bacon hair, bacon moustache, five-o’clock shadow made of bacon bits, and a bacon body.” -Homer Simpson, endlessly quotable, lovable, dense (yet strangely wise and prolific) father to one of the greatest television families of all time, The Simpsons.


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