NOTE TO READERS: In honor of San Francisco making the Super Bowl, I am reblogging this cioppino recipe. That does NOT make me a 49ers fan. Just someone who likes good food. I need to learn to make crab cakes quick, before I catch hell from my East Coast besties…..Deborah Pittorino…HELP!!!!!
This Cioppino recipe includes an element of redemption.
Adriana — my dear friend from way back when in Puerto Rico, and now another single mom by choice and an essential part of my New York life, has made numerous appearances on Hot, Cheap & Easy. But even more of our fantastic meals together have never made it to these pages. We like to blame it on the kids. It’s one of the things children are good for.
It’s not as though we don’t try. We start out dutifully recording the ingredients; me glaring across the counter at Adriana waving the appropriate measuring implements at her, grabbing the bloody and limp plastic wrap from the butcher as she is trying to throw it out so I can write down the exact weight of the meat, and giving her the evil eye every time she starts to improvise before I have a…
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That sounds like as good an excuse as any 😉
Absolutely!