The previous post showed how to clean squids while saving their precious ink to make the wonderful recipe Calamares in su Tinta, Calamars à l’Encre or Squid in their own Ink. But first let me share some sweet family history about this dish. When we first moved to this country in 1987, my son Joseph [...]
Keep the Ink! Cook it…II!
July 21st, 2010 · 2 Comments
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Move on!
July 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Photo Joseph Mastantuono Waiting for the day to break & still in the sleep/wake up zone, this morning I am trying to count how many times I moved. Probably about twenty times, some moves bigger that others. I will never catch up with Pierre who moved about thirty times. So, yes! We do have some [...]
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The Busy Week Report
May 4th, 2009 · No Comments
Some pix and comments from the events mentioned in the blog “busy week“. April 27-28 I played Claudine in The Cry, a vignette film, part of James Mehr’s project Veritas that will be on line soon. on May 1st I had a great time performing Voyage dans la Lune at the Neo-Benchi and Experimental Video [...]
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Busy Week!
April 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Les semaines se suivent et ne se ressemblent pas or in English: Week follows week; none are alike. Here’s the one coming up for me, and wow, is it busy! First, this weekend I am preparing for the shoot of a short independent movie “The Cry” by talented young director James Mehr. I will play [...]
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Preview Recording & Thanksgiving
November 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Drawing Y.K. Wow! my last post was over a week ago and I didn’t get a chance to write anything since then. So let’s go back in time a little bit: The gig with Mike Bisio at Justin’s in Albany N.Y was a lot of fun and we couldn’t have had a better audience. If [...]
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Short Ribs & 콩나물국 (kong namul guk)
September 6th, 2008 · No Comments
Last night we were invited to dinner at the home of Joseph & Yoori. Joseph Mastantuono is my older son, and two years ago he and Yoori Kang got married. I am so blessed to have such an incredible daughter (don’t like to say in law, daughter in love would be better!). Yoori came from [...]
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Sans Quack!
May 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment
On Sunday May 4th, the d’Artagnan‘s Fourth Annual Duckathlon was sans quack, educational and a lot of fun. The event took place at the Chelsea Market and around the Meatpacking District. The yearly happening is a culinary competition where city top chefs present their best team to compete a series of 20 challenges that goes [...]
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