Pick Up The Fork

A Serious Eater's Guide to Buenos Aires and Beyond

Shakshuka For Breakfast

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Israeli breakfast might just be one of my most favorite-est things in the world, and shakshouka my even more most favoritestest parts about Israeli breakfast. A cheap, flavorful, one pot wonder, Shakshuka is my new best friend breakfast brunch lunch linner lupper dish of choice. It’s basically eggs that are poached in a spicy tomato […]

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Making Naan At Home: Homemade Naan Bread Recipe

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I’m not the type of person who likes to bake.  I’m not able to make things perfectly shaped. I find it annoying to measure out exact amounts, keep track of baking times, wait for foods to rise, to rest, to cool. Then, comes the clean up, or not cleaning it up, and having to suffer […]

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Healthy KickMyAss Recipes: Roasted Butternut Squash, Leek and Garlic Soup

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No one wants to read a food blog where the writer obsesses about being a calorie-counting fatty. But after a nonstop eatvacation, I’m on a health kick, trying hard to put down the pork and get my culo into shape. I’ve gotten a trainer where I’ll go from my sedentary-marroc-cerealitas munching routine to getting my ass to […]

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Pesto Pasta with Sun Dried Tomato and Feta

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Dust off your food processor or take out the dear old mortar and pestle because it’s pesto-o-clock. A pesto brightens up any boring pasta recipe, converting naked noodles in a stupid sauce, to a flavor-packed silly basil-rific tomato-y concoction.

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Minestrone Soup: The Soup That Keeps On Giving

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Hearty, cheap, healthy and filling, that’s why Minestrone is always my go-to soup when the weather gets cold. Super easy to make, it’s like the soup that keeps on giving: if you are running out of soupy liquid, just add more chicken stock and tomato puré, if you need more hearty goodness, chop up more […]

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Salted Dulce de Leche Brownie Recipe

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Sometimes I like to Sandra Lee my way around a recipe, semi-shamefully taking unMarthalike shortcuts when it comes to baking. While self-righteous cooks may get a major bitch face caradeculo at the blasphemous thought of using boxed brownie mix, here’s a way to pimp out pre-packaged brownies and play it off like it’s 100% homemade. The […]

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The Scrambled Egg Breakfast Empanada

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They have the breakfast burrito and the breakfast sandwich, what about the breakfast empanada? Fill it with whatever tickles your breakfast fancy, here is just another way to reinvent the Argentine empanada favorite. Argie-fying my Yanqui food ways, that’s what I call a cultural exchange.

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Big Al’s Badass Brioche Buns

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Guest post written by Alan Epstein aka Big Al aka Al Doggy Dogg aka The Rainmaker “My anaconda don’t want none unless you got buns hun.” – Sir Mix-A-Lot  I’ve always been impressed by Sir Mix-A-Lot’s sage-like wisdom on the importance of being selective about the buns in which you serve your meat. I’m gonna […]

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Tropical Spicy Quinoa Tabbouleh Recipe

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Fresh, bright, healthy, summery, this easy recipe makes the perfect warm-weathered lunch. Ever since I ordered 50 pesos worth of organic tomatoes from Tallo Verde, I’ve been choppin’ it up like a madwoman, making bowl-loads of salads.  Since tabbouleh is one of my favorite things to eat, as is quinoa, as is all things tropical, […]

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Spring Recipe: My Favorite Chopped Salad

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This is honestly my favorite salad ever.  Packed with fresh veggies, healthy, crispy, delicious.  I’ve said this many times before, if you can boil water and have the patience to chop a shitload of vegetables, you can make this salad (or a variation of it). The key? High quality vegetables.  This recipe replaces my old […]

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