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Monthly Archive for July, 2011

This Just In: Seasonal Eating Can be Boring

Posted in alcaparrado, capers, chicharron, fried, guanciale, Italian, Italy, Meat, Naples, noodles, Pasta, pork, tomato, unhealthy on Jul 29th, 2011

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Kitchen Through the Looking-Glass: Creole-Style Steak and Bewitched Black Beans (Frijoles al Brujo)

Posted in black beans, Caribbean, grilled, Haitian, oil, oregano, plantains, Puerto Rican, South America, tostones, tradition on Jul 21st, 2011

An oft-heard, anguished cry these days chez nous is “there’s nothing to bloody eat in this house except baby food!”. Never actually true and rarely even close to reality, this refrain was aired again earlier this week when, left to my own devices while Amy enjoys a well-deserved week at her family’s shore house, I [...]

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Pub Lunches & My Very Own Purgatory

Posted in ale, beer, British, culture, England, Europe, family, holidays, pork, Pub, restaurant, Restaurant Review, sausage, suet, tourism, tradition, travel on Jul 16th, 2011

“A journey is a fragment of hell.” – Prophet Mohammed Regular readers will most likely know a handful of factoids about us WANF-ers and our proclivities, among them: one of us is English, the other Italian-American; we enjoy making a wide variety of dishes, many of which we’ve sampled on our travels; and we have [...]

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