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Necks and Feet and Shoulder, Oh MY! It’s Always Sunday When You Make This Gravy.

Posted in America, Italian, Italian-American, Meat, New Jersey, Pasta, Philadelphia, Recipe, Recipes, chops, gravy, offal, pigs, sauce, sausage, slow cooking, trotter, unhealthy on Jan 19th, 2009

They (we) call it a Sunday Gravy because it really suits a Sunday best. The long simmering, the wine drinking, the letting-it-sit-on-the-stove-till-the-family-arrives kind of gravy. Thanks to the Sopranos, people all over the world have heard of Sunday Gravy. Some scratch their heads in wonder as to why some call it sauce and others call [...]

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This Has Nothing To Do With Food: HELL YEAH PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES!!!

Posted in Philadelphia on Oct 29th, 2008

Watch out: The jock in me is about to be unleashed. I never would normally do this, but it’s been 28 frickin long years and I’m so tired. So, so tired and delirious. I’ve been watching the Philadelphia Phillies playoff and World Series games for what seems like my whole life the [...]

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You Say Granita, I Say Wooder (Water) Ice.

Posted in Philadelphia, Recipe, Recipes, culture, dessert, easy, lemon, tradition, vegetarian, water on Jul 12th, 2008

Another post that brings me back to my childhood while growing up in the outskirts of Philadelphia and its plethora of suburbs. One of my favorite summertime treats (I was too young to know the beauty that is a soft-shell crab, mind you) was a local treat called Water Ice (pronounced “wooder ice” when [...]

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