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In June I had a Barbeque with a bunch of friends. I love cooking for other people and I am pretty good on the grill. One of my friends is a vegetarian so I went to the store in a frantic search for something that I could grill just for him.

There were the typical shrimp, salmon, veggie patties etc… but I had treated him to my salmon specialty the last time we had dinner, and I like shrimp in many recipes, but it’s a pain to grill, and really… almost as boring as grilled chicken breasts… no matter what you marinate it in. I was making my ribs for everyone else, and I wanted him to have something equally as good.

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I haven’t spent much time on my blog this past week, but believe me… everything that has taken me away from this has had to do with food. Not only was it Thanksgiving, but I also took on the Kraft Cooking Video Challenge!

Please understand, I just started uploading instructional videos recently, and while I think they have gone pretty well, I do shoot them at night, after a good 10 hour (real job) work day, so I haven’t shown my face. I didn’t want to have to worry about how I looked, or my hair, or my bags, sags and wrinkles. Honestly, if I had to worry about that every time I filmed… Let’s face it… I would never film!

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When I was a kid, an Irish Catholic kid, Thanksgiving was huge. More than huge… It was a gathering of enormous porportions! The crowd was larger than any other holiday of the year. At one point, my mother, along with her two sisters, and their husbands, herded a flock of 23 children.

Yes. It was 23 children against 6 adults…And no. Back in those days. Incredibly. We didn’t always win.

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While this is a cooking/recipe site, I recently started uploading videos to Youtube so that I can put them on my website. I saw this one today… and because I have been busy all weekend doing the Kraft Video Recipe Challenge I didn’t write anything, so… I couldn’t help myself.

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The other day I wrote about my crab addiction, and I promised I would show you how I cook, clean, and crack a live Dungeness Crab. Well, here it is!

When cooking with Carlos Manriques, he showed me such an entirely new technique to making a stuffed chicken roll that I just had to try it myself. Try it I did… And I must say, it was a complete success (thank God, because there was no dinner back up whatsoever).

Part of the appeal to me of these chicken wraps is that you can throw anything you like in them. You want flavor, of course, and something to stick it all together, like cheese, but after that - it’s really all left to your own imagination.

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I am convinced that, one day, Fresh Dungeness Crab will be my ticket to hell… Really.

I was raised to believe in the Seven Deadly Sins, (a fallen Catholic, if you will) and have come to the conclusion that my personal Chariot to those fiery depths will be teathered to multiple crabs, side-stepping their way right past pergatory, and will proceed directly down to Dante’s infamous inferno.

Unfortunately even knowing this does not help.

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Ok… I have thought about this post all day. Carlos and I cooked (OK - so mostly I washed the dishes) for 2 hours or more (with breaks of course), and made an incredible meal. One that I would not post on this website had I only read about it, because the ingredients and techniques are above and beyond what this blog is about…

But it happened in my kitchen so please… Read, enjoy, and take out of it what you will.

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Tonight we are having good friends over, or should I say some good friends are coming over - because really, it wasn’t our invite, it was theirs. They want to cook for us, (who would say no to that?) and it was our place or theirs, so I chose ours. Bigger Kitchen, bigger table, and I have no idea what to expect because they won’t tell us.

What I do know, is that it will be a gourmet meal, because Carlos is a Gourmet Chef. No, really. He is one of those guys who knows 7 languages, has started umpteen restaurants and then sold them, and is now a personal chef for a family that flies him all over the world… or wherever they want to go that week.

He gets a day off and wants to cook for us? Um… HELL YEAH!

I was told to get my ‘cooking gloves’ on (English is not his first language), so perhaps I will learn something tonight that I didn’t know, or taste something I have never tasted.

I will let you know all about it later - or perhaps tomorrow. I may fall into a total food coma and end up drooling on the couch, unable to formulate complete sentences, or even whole words.

God I hope so.