If you have a favorite ingredient, great off- or online to source interesting food stuff, a wonderful restaurant, or way of cooking, please (yes, please!) share/ comment and become a part of our community.
The Holidays and a Favorite Chocolate Dessert
One Thing I Hate About Blogging, and a Mexican Chicken Stew I Love
An Untraditional Thanksgiving and Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie
An Eating-Shopping Tour of the LA Farmers’ Market
Chatting with Gail Monaghan…Plus the Recipe for her Favorite Dessert
We Won the Honest Scrap Award!
The First Unconfidential Cook’s Cookbook Giveaway
The First Unconfidential Cooks’ Dinner


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Hi Catherine ~
Is this a spot to also recommend my favorite Trader Joes finds…like their Italian Style Meatballs or their Eggplant Cutlets?? I’ve made so many great dishes using these….
GREAT BLOG!!!
Miriam
By: nurseintheworld on January 26, 2009
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Absolutely! Please send your recipes! ce
By: Catherine on January 27, 2009
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Hi Cathy,
Put me in the drawing…I love your recipes. John is the cook in the family at this time but your recipes inspired me. I’m working such long hours cooking just isn’t a priority. When we met, John sent me to cooking school near your house, I believe, to a place…long gone. He’d already graduated!
Bocadebdog@aol.com
Debbi Lawlor
By: Debbi Lahr Lawlor on March 5, 2009
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After purchasing amazing TRUE balsamic vinegar in Italy for $100, and rationing it for one year, I found an affordable vinegar I can live with for $11. I’ve done a lot of taste tests, blindfolding myself and this is the winner. Grandad’s Gravy balsamic vinegar.
That tip is worth $89.
By: Angela@Spinach Tiger on June 4, 2009
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hi please could you let me know what happened with the original owner parioli romanisimo the fanily were Rossi. I liked to went that it was perfecty, I need to contact Alex Rossi
thanks
Laura Parvis
By: laura on November 11, 2009
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Dear Catherine and Bruce,
What a wonderful website and another example of the wonderful creatvitiy in our small class. My heart is always at Latin School, but I actually graduated from Exeter and my classmate there is Chris Kimball who founded Cooks Illustrated: you may perhaps have gotten the chance to know him. As you both are, he is an amazingly thoughtful, nice and creative person and a great writer (his essays in the magazine each month are gems I think). He would love your website. I look forward to trying your recommendations.
My best wishes,
James Meserow
By: James Meserow on February 9, 2010
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So nice to hear from you, James. I love Cooks Illustrated! I’m sorry I missed the reunion–Rick told me you were there. Maybe next time.
By: unconfidentialcook on February 10, 2010
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Please add me to your mailing list.
By: Katherine on June 8, 2010
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