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Dried Mushrooms

July 7, 2010
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One of the challenges of being single is getting all the produce cooked while it’s still fresh. I’ve finally come to accept that simply isn’t going to happen until a fresh produce market opens within comfortable walking distance of my home so I can shop every day. Meanwhile, I keep working at ways to reduce [...]

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Lucky Star Hong Kong Style Chinese Restaurant

May 27, 2010
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If you’re in the mood for authentic Cantonese on the St. Pete side of the bay there’s really only two places: ABC Seafood, reviewed earlier in Inkwatu, and the Lucky Star Hong Kong Style Chinese Restaurant (4175 66th Street North, St Petersburg, FL 33709-4915; 727-381-8888‎; map). On the Tampa side of the bay, my favorite [...]

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Organic produce and fresh fish shopping in St. Pete.

March 8, 2010
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Comments are often where the most interesting content is in a blog. I especially enjoy comments which are questions such as a recent one that asked how to find good produce locally. It prompted me to create an answer, which I posted as an answering comment, that summed up my favorite places for local produce. [...]

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Romanesco

March 7, 2010
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Taken 3/6/10, St. Petersburg, FL Saturday Morning Market — don’t forget to click on image and then click again to get to full-screen image.   What an amazing vegetable, the romanesco. I’d never seen one before. Next time I’m at the market, I’m going to buy one to bring home to prepare and eat. This [...]

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Lentils with yogurt and garlic

January 30, 2010
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Just a quickie recipe: make lentils your usual way. For me, that means putting them in medium size crockpot, covering with vegetable (or chicken) broth up to near top of pot, dumping in an entire onion chopped, two (or three!) handfuls of peeled garlic buds, 1 Knorr’s bouillon cube (veg or chicken), 1/4 teaspoon of [...]

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City Produce

August 22, 2009
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SLICED FRESH FIG Almost everyone has enjoyed a Fig Newton. Perhaps, fewer folks have had dried figs, and fewer still fresh, ripe, juicy, sweet figs like those (pictured here) which were for sale last week at my favorite local produce stand here in St. Pete, City Produce Fruit Market (2701 4th St. N., St Petersburg, [...]

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Thai Kitchen

May 20, 2009
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statue just inside entrance   On 62nd Avenue North, not far from Phat Phap Temple, the Vietnamese Buddhist temple, is a small, but very good restaurant, the Thai Kitchen (1126 62nd Ave. N., St. Petersburg, FL 33702-7422; 727-525-8748). I definitely recommend it, not only because it’s very good food at reasonable prices in a very [...]

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Cappy’s Pizzeria

February 7, 2009

click here for larger image TRIVIAL PURSUITS AT CAPPY’S Cappy’s is an independent pizzeria on 1st Ave. N., St. Petersburg, Florida. Its Greek salad is my favorite in town. That’s not to diminish their deep dish pizza in any way. I’ll get to the main attraction soon, but their Greek salad with its homemade oregano [...]

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Nitally’s Thai-Mexican Fusion Cuisine

December 3, 2008

  NOTE: Nitally’s has relocated to bigger and better quarters at 2462 Central Ave., St. Petersburg, FL. Same good food, just more of it and more space and parking too! Nitally’s Thai Coffee House (1040 4th St. N., St. Petersburg, FL 33701) offers something I have never heard of before, nor could I find it [...]

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