Last summer I had a pizza at a sidewalk cafe in Paris. When the pizza arrived at the table there was a fried egg right in the middle. New to me and very cool. Now when I make pizza at home or I'm ordering one at a restaurant I gotta have that egg. Yes, nostalgic thoughts of Paris come to mind plus I like the runny protein that it lends to the pie. At a Cuban restaurant I ordered a ham and cheese sandwich and that came with an egg betwixt the ingredients. Gooey and good!

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Yes I love pesto and have been making it at home for a while now. It's so good that I can't buy & eat the packaged version from the market; it's too corrupted; gotta make it fresh. I've been combining basil leaves, pine nuts, garlic, olive oil and red pepper flakes. The other night, I tried a new version with delicious results. Salted almonds, flat leaf parsley and then all the other usual suspects. Wow; fantastic plus you get the fiber & nutrients from the almonds. I tossed it into some bow tie pasta and then with some grilled asparagus & eggplant. Oh, then I ate while I watched a great new movie-Red Belt. Sly stuff from David Mamet with a great cast! (I had a fancy food processor but the results were uneven so I'm happily making my pesto in my Osterizer blender and it's great.)

I have 2 sushi cookbooks and all the seaweed, rice, etc. to get started making sushi at home. I'm curious about working safely with, and then eating raw fish here; something I happily do at Sushi resturants. Hmmm? Guess I'll mull it over as I bake crab meat stuffed cod. Some vegetable broth, 1 chopped garlic colve. 1 shallot, olives, capers and cracked black pepper. Slices of gold bell pepper too......Bake for 40 minutes ( Hey, I have a slow oven ) Damn, turned out great. I ate it while watching a great movie-Rififfi. So good that I opted to watch the directors' interview-Jules Dassen. Check it out! Black & White film set in Paris in the late 50's. I believe they remade it recently as "The Bank Job," with Jason Strathern....also very good viewing.