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Paella

This is my best approximation of how I remember my father making paella. He never wrote down his own recipe-the […]

The first time I made this was for Maggie’s 65th birthday. I was 28 years old, and had never made

Every January 10th from the age he had teeth until he was married, Gary asked mom to make her famous

One of our oldest family traditions is planning a rest stop on any drive along the Atlantic Coast for buckets

I first made this for Christmas and was surprised how easy and delicious it was. The store bought puff pastry

This was a West Park Drive staple, a real crowd pleaser that was our a childhood favorite.

My friend Kelly Louis made this dip every Thanksgiving in for about 20 years. It is decadent and dangerous, and

If you think you can’t eat a whole lamb shank per person, you are wrong. I far prefer this fall-off-the-bone

There is a great pastry chef I have followed for years named David Lebovitz. A NYer who made his name

For years, mom made beef Bourguignon by following the famous Julia Child recipe. It took her hours and hours, and

The first time I had beef short ribs was hosting a catered dinner for business clients in the caves at

A tradition for New Years, my father’s friend Emilio would cut the pastry to say the old and new years