Posted in Blogroll, butter, culture, egg, embarrassment, indulgent meal, Italian, Italy, Olive Oil, other regions, Pasta, radicchio, Recipe, Recipes, sauce, tourism, travel, tuscany, vegetarian, watercress on Mar 15th, 2008
Ever since we bought our Kitchen Aid Mixer (kneel down, bow your head in a moment of silence, please), I have only used it for one thing – making pasta. I am not a baker. I can not even pretend to be one. In fact, the other day, I thought I’d be cute and also [...]
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Posted in breadcrumbs, butter, California, cheap meal, cheese, drink, easy, egg, flour, gnocchi, holiday, indulgent meal, Italian, Potato, quick meal, Recipe, Recipes, sage, sauce, travel, vegetarian, wine on Mar 1st, 2008
Last year, Amy and I spent a very enjoyable long weekend with her cousin and cousin’s husband visiting the Napa and Russian River Valley winelands. Throughout the course of the weekend we must have tasted fifty different wines at twelve or so different wineries, and I am slightly embarrassed to admit that I did not [...]
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Posted in bread, British, butter, culture, England, Food Commentary, France, French, restaurant, tradition on Dec 19th, 2007
According to an exceedingly poorly written article on MSN UK today, the UK’s favorite food (as voted by 50,000 members of the public) is, guess what? No, not bangers, not mash, not fish, chips, or mushy peas. Neither is it roast beef or Yorkshire pudding, spotted dick or trifle, nor is it, to my great [...]
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Posted in asparagus, butter, cheap meal, cheese, easy, egg, Garlic, Jacques Pepin, leek, mushroom, Olive Oil, Pasta, quick meal, Recipe, Recipes on Nov 29th, 2007
Wow… that title is a bit long, but it’s the best description I could come up with. This meal is absolutely delicious, quick and cheap. It is adapted from our favorite master chef – Jacques Pepin. On his PBS show Fast Food My Way (WATCH IT!!!), Jacques creates seemingly difficult and creative dishes in no [...]
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Posted in bread, butter, cheap meal, dining, easy, eating, fish, fried, lemon, lower fat, magazine, Recipe, Recipes, sauce, Saveur, savory, white bread, white fish on Oct 17th, 2007
***No, this is not a grilled-cheese sandwich! I have to give it up to my favorite cooking mag Saveur (and subsequently the chef who created this recipe, Bruce Sherman of North Pond in Chicago) for introducing me to one of the coolest, most creative and tasty ways to cook fish. In the October, 2007 issue [...]
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Posted in beef, butter, chips, compound butter, french fries, fried, indulgent meal, martini, meal, Recipe, Recipes, Steak, tarragon on Oct 14th, 2007
After a long, hard week at work, Jonny and I usually try and treat ourselves on Friday nights, especially when the weather turns colder, to a drink and an indulgent meal. Ok, we don’t just reserve this for Fridays only, but for some reason, a drink and a meal always seems to just taste better [...]
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