As one of the biggest grilling weekend just passed (Memorial Day in the US), we thought, why not throw up another grillable meal? How about this “deconstructed souvlaki” we threw together recently? Ok, so souvlaki is traditionally made with pork and it’s always skewered, but if you order “ena souvlaki pita” in Greece […]
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Posted in Barolo, Bologna, Garlic, Recipe, batter, breadcrumbs, broccoli raab, chops, crispy, dining, flour, food, fried, herbs, lamb, polenta, rosemary, tourism, travel, vegetables on May 14th, 2008
I feel like we go on and on ad nauseam about our trip to Italy last summer, and I suspect that if it hasn’t happened already, our faithful readers will begin to tire of our constant references to those halcyon days of pastoral bliss, romantic nuptials, and devastatingly good food. So, before your goodwill towards […]
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Posted in Garlic, Italian, Italian-American, Meat, Olive Oil, Potato, Recipe, Recipes, anchovies, asparagus, braised, broccoli raab, chicken stock, chops, dining, easy, easy meal, eating, food, food TV, healthy, hearty, kale, lamb, mustard, quick meal, salt, sauce, savory, shallots, side dish, television show, vegetables on Mar 20th, 2008
If you’re anything like us then you’ll probably have a couple of dishes that you crave more often than anything else. And, again, if you’re like us, you probably always have the ingredients for such dishes in your pantry in preparation for whenever that craving strikes. These are the dishes that, like a line-cook in […]
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Posted in Garlic, Lebanese, Meat, Recipe, Recipes, beef, cheese, culture, feta, food, grilled, ground meat, lamb, language, lemon, lower fat, parsley, pita, pork, quick meal, sauce, skewers, tradition, yogurt on Dec 3rd, 2007
This is one of those meals we often make in the winter when we want something tasty, filling, but not high in fat. By cooking the ‘kabobs’ on the flat griddle pan, the fat drips off into the drip pan part of the griddle leaving us with a leaner kabob. I’ve been meaning […]
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Posted in Garlic, Lebanese, Recipe, Recipes, chick peas, cinnamon, food, lamb, language, mint, pine nuts, pita, pomegranate, pressure-cooker, restaurant, yogurt on Nov 12th, 2007
After my best friend, Shannon, first moved back home after our fun ’snowboard/ski bunny’ post-college years slacking off in Breckenridge, Colorado, I visited her and she took me to eat at a place with a cuisine I had never eaten before - Lebanese. We went to Lebanese Taverna in Arlington, VA, one of six locations […]
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Posted in Garlic, Jacques Pepin, Meat, Recipe, Recipes, braised, dining, easy, easy meal, eating, food, healthy, lamb, lower fat, mushroom, mushrooms, onions, pressure-cooker, rosemary, safety, savory, shanks, thyme, water, wine, winter on Sep 18th, 2007
So maligned are pressure-cookers that it seems almost sacrilegious of a food blog like this, that likes to extol the virtues of fresh ingredients and traditional cooking methods, to even consider adding a recipe that calls for using one. Undaunted, here we are flaunting convention and defying the culinary thought-police once more with a recipe […]
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