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Something everyone knows about me is that I love eating. I love eating, and I love cooking. And baking. As the daughter of a data analyst cum gourmet chef, I grew up with a more sophisticated palate than most. It was not uncommon in my household for the dinner table to hold dishes ranging from Greek moussaka to Italian puttanesca, Thai pad thai to French boeuf bourguignon.
I have learned that most of the dishes I love to eat in fancy restaurants, I can make myself at home with just a little research and some basic ingredients. Most dishes can be made with staples like olive oil, sugar, flour, herbs, vinegars, garlic, and pasta/rice/grain…if you keep those in the cabinets, you can then just pick up the one or two special ingredients you may need for whatever recipe. If I can’t find a recipe, or don’t have the right ingredients, I just make it up! I don’t have any culinary training (other than what my parents have taught me, which, to be fair, is a considerable amount) but my point is, if I can do it, so can you. Like Gusteau says in Ratatouille, “Anyone can cook.” You just have to figure out a way to “Make it work” (Tim Gunn). Now I promise I’ll stop with the TV show references.
Bon Appétit!
Okay, that was Julia Child.
I’m really going to stop now.
Recipes
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Pasta
Mac and Cheese: Variation on a Theme
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Entrées
Soups
Meat
Beach Bum Tacos: Lime-Garlic Steak
Vegetarian
Beach Bum Tacos: Homemade Flour Tortillas
Seafood
Oven-Roasted Salmon With Basil
Stewed Tomato Shrimp over Polenta
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Salads
Cucumber-Avocado Salad with Lemon-Mint Dressing
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Tasty Nibbles
Garlic-Ginger Sweet Potato Fries
Scrumdiddlyumptious Banana Bread
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Desserts
Sour Cream Lemon Cake with Strawberries
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[...] Little Beach Bum’s Beach Bum Grub [...]
Omg, its like an instructional cookbook, with step by step photos of what recipes “should” look like!!! If only I was ever capable of reproducing such glory.