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Tag Archives: Gourmet

So often someone comes to my house for dinner, or I go to theirs, and one of us asks, ‘can I have that recipe?’.  Sometimes the recipe is from a cookbook, or website, and then it’s easy, they look it up and either have success or not, but when you give someone a recipe you […]

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Spoiler alert, there is no recipe for stuffed peppers to be found anywhere in this post, or anywhere @The Chef’s Last Diet. Because this is my site, I get to decide what to include, what to cook, and what to talk about, and I don’t like stuffed peppers. I do like stuffed other things, like […]

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Saffron is one of my favorite spices, it is also the most expensive spice in the world, so I use it sparingly.  You can find recipes using it from across the globe, and amazingly enough despite their reputation for being plain and thrifty, the Pennsylvania Dutch love saffron and use it in both sweet and […]

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Last week I decided to splurge and went to my favorite local bakery Artisan Boulanger Patisserie, in the East Passyunk neighborhood of Philadelphia, and found a Philadelphia Cronut!  Having had the original I would say that this was quite different. Artisan Boulanger calls their product a croissant beignet.  The structure was made up of layers […]

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