New Haven’s Barcelona Wine Bar

The New Haven, Connecticut landscape was crisp and clean, a fresh bit of teleporting back to the 18th Century when the bricks of the Yale Library were first being laid. The sun shone on the well-kept streets as the church bells sounded around the corner. It was Sunday today and the week’s journey was just [...]

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This past Christmas, Santa was very generous and brought me a Blue Ant Blue Tooth Headset which espoused voice to text capabilities with a 150 dollar (on sale) price tag. While it appeared to work great, I was angry at the false advertising on the box - there is no voice to text capabilities [...]

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This is another very easy FAST recipe with BIG flavour! This will make enough for 2 big portions, so adjust accordingly.
Rigatoni Carbonara
½ Bag of Rigatoni (500g)
Boil water and add Rigatoni. Cook until Al Dente (about 10 minutes). In the meantime….
Pancetta - 4 thin slices {you can substitute a nice quality cured ham [...]

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Well the first work day of 2010 proved to be an evening of paying homage to the great cuisine of France. Way back in 1949 Julia Child arrived, with her husband Paul, to the shores of Normandy, where she tasted true French Cooking for the first time at Rouen’s oldest hotel. She described biting into [...]

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Italian, cooking, wine, and cheese all seem to flow together in perfect harmony. Tonight was another FAST meal prepared in less than 30 minutes with an outstanding finish of a 5 out of 5. The trick here is not to rush the sauce!
Gnocchi Tres Formaggio
1/4 C. Unsalted Butter
1 Clove Garlic (crushed)
Start your pasta [...]

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Wow, this one rates a 5 out of 5!! AND let me be the first to say that that does NOT often happen! Soo easy and fast!! AND absolutely delicious!
**Tips at the Top :
1. Always dry the chicken thoroughly (it will brown better).
2. Use a good pan
3. When adding the Lime Juice (deglaze), stir vigorously [...]

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Strength, agility, speed, flexibility and balance - such are the 5 tenets of exercise. Remember way back to grade school when we were all taught how and why we should exercise. Yet, day after day, it is the strength that gets the most press. Without balance and flexibility, there is NO mobility; no movement possible; [...]

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The warmth of the sun over the Monterey Peninsula seemed to beckon a soft good-bye to me as I lugged my overstuffed suitcase down the stairs enroute to the Embraer 120 prop plane (www.embraer.com) . It was a small plane that would carry me, and my more than three days worth of [...]

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