I rarely walk into the kitchen without a plan. I’m just not a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-britches kinda girl. No shame in my game – I leave that stuff to the pros. Or to the far more creative and patient.

Sometimes the best meals are born out of hard work, research, and trial-and-error. The bookshelves full of cookbooks in the den proves that. Others are born on out of impulse, although I think “desperation” might be a more accurate description of what sometimes goes on around here.
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