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she can't, she's a vegetarian...
Exciting news! I replaced my battery charger for my digital camera! So hopefully the picture quality will be better now. Also, I've started another blog that revolves around Top Chef! Check it out: Top Chef Wannabe. I won't go into that many details on here, but I was making Ossobuco for dinner, and one of my guests was vegetarian. So I made a vegetarian version of the dish. I substituted the veal shank with baked tofu.

we all scream for ice cream!
AHHH! I think I know where the little limerick "You scream, I scream, we all scream for ICE CREAM!" came from... when it's unbearably hot, people scream "ICE CREAM!!!" Well at least that's the first thing that came to mind. It's hotter than a roasted pepper outside! The only logical activity would be to make ice cream. My friends gave me an ice cream maker one year and it's one of my favorite kitchen appliances! If you don't have one, I guess you're going to have to find some tins and roll 'em around for half an hour. Or you can just invest $50-$60 and enjoy

let's try this again
When I asked my friend what he wanted for dinner, he said he was in the mood for pasta with a tomato-base sauce. Spaghetti is pretty boring, so I went back to this vegetable bolognese recipe from Giada's show Everyday Italian. I remember trying it out a couple years back, but with my new culinary skills and knowledge, I tackled it once more.Instead of putting the raw vegetables directly into the blender, I sauteed them first to caramelize them and develop more flavor. I also added 4 roma tomatoes to the vegetable mixture.The recip