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Spanakopita

October 20, 2009 by Charles 19 Comments

Spanakopita

During my senior year of high school, I got my first laptop.  By today’s standards, it was slow and it was heavy.  It hardly had any memory and it couldn’t even play a movie.  But it had an ethernet port, and so, it had potential.

When I got to college, Firestone library was only a few hundred yards from my dorm room.  But on a cold, wind-swept winter day, its collection and online database couldn’t  have seemed farther.  Fortunately, with a few keystrokes, and mouse clicks, its newspaper articles and scholarly journals were within reach.  From the university network, I could also stream my Russian language files and download my French politics assignment.  Early into freshman year, my laptop had become the epicenter of my college education.

Ten years later, …

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Filed Under: Appetizers Tagged With: Feta, Greek, Ina Garten, Mediterranean, Phyllo Dough, Spinach, Vegetarian

Chicken Roulade

March 8, 2009 by Charles 5 Comments

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Within my circle of friends, two of us cook.  Which gave Jamey, the host of our weekly poker game, an idea.  He would volunteer to host a cook-off between Eric and I – a Top Chef Deathmatch as he billed it. As part of the competition, Eric and I would be charged with creating an appetizer and an entrée in ninety minutes, which our friends would then collectively judge and critique.  As part of the rules, Eric and I could bring our own proteins and rely on our girlfriends as sous-chefs.  We could also help ourselves to any ingredients and cookware we found in Jamey’s apartment.  The competition had yet another element.  The four judges would be bringing…

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Filed Under: Entrees Tagged With: Bread Crumbs, Chicken, Searing, Spinach

Seven-Layer Spinach Lasagna

February 9, 2009 by Charles 4 Comments

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Choosing a recipe is a lot like playing the Kevin Bacon game.

The Kevin Bacon game, or Six-Degrees of Kevin Bacon, centers around the small-world principle, or the idea that any two people are linked by a finite number of connections.  With Kevin Bacon, the goal is to link him to any other actor using no more than six intermediary actors.  For instance, Elvis and Kevin Bacon are separated by only one intermediary – Edward Asner, who appeared with Elvis in Change of Habit, and with Bacon in JFK. At last count, over one million actors can be linked to Bacon in fewer than six steps.

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The principle can be applied to any number of disciplines or phenomena –  from linking baseball players in various decades, to demonstrating the thought process in choosing a recipe….

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Filed Under: Entrees Tagged With: Baking, Cheese, Italian, Pasta, Sauteing, Spinach, Vegetables, Vegetarian

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