delicious recipes from a messy kitchen

There are some nights when I enter the door and wish for this: a pair of fuzzy slippers handed to me. A glass of wine already poured. The table set, fresh flowers, dinner warm and ready. Maybe a little Chet Baker and a quiet conversation.
But tonight was one of those nights where I barreled in [...]

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Let me be clear. This is not my mother’s recipe for soy sauce chicken. My mother’s recipe, like every Chinese mother’s soy sauce chicken, every Jewish mother’s matzo ball soup, and every North American mother’s chicken noodle casserole, is perfect. It involves a whole chicken, slowly braised in a cauldron of soy sauce spiked with [...]

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