Posts Tagged: Port

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Aug 10

Port-Dried Figs

Figs were on sale at the market, so I got some to make a tart for the wife. When I bought the wine for the chicken marsala, I also picked up a bottle of rose port. After tasting the port, the wife decided she wanted to sweeten and dry the figs.

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18
Nov 09

Surf & Turf

The wife wanted to eat in to celebrate her birthday last week. She asked for surf and turf:

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We bought some fillets at the butcher shop and ordered some lobsters from the Wicked Fresh Lobster Company, a local company that flies in fresh lobsters from Maine. We ordered late, so the lobsters arrived pre-steamed. I was actually a little grateful for that, because cooking lobsters can be quite a production. All I had to do was boil water in a stock pot to re-heat them. That meant I could focus on the steaks and the broccolini.

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