cook pot stories

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You know how sometimes you have an idea for a dish and it just doesn't work? I chalk those episodes up to educational moments. I learn something each time I fail . Equally, I learn when I succeed. And I get to do happy dances. I recently had an idea for a seafood dish reminiscent of cioppino , but as usual I wasn't planning on following any real recipe. It worked beautifully and I'm still feeling smug, especially as this was a birthday dinner for a friend. Perhaps that means I really should have followed a recipe and I was just lucky. I gathered together my ingredients: peeled and deveined shrimp cherrystone clams chopped pepper, onion and garlic chopped chorizo chopped palm hearts chopped tomatoes a can of stewed tomatoes a can of chopped clams a can of seafood broth I sauteed the peppers, onions and garlic, then added in sequence, letting it cook for a bit each time: the sausage the palm hearts the tomatoes along with some basil and pepper the broth and ca...