Before we head off to England (and a five day side-trip to Northern France) to visit the across-the-pond family, we wanted to leave you with a different option for your Christmas Day meal. Some families love making hard-core meals for Christmas Day dinner – meals that take hours to cook and include many courses or [...]
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“If I should wish a fruit brought to Paradise it would certainly be the fig.” – Prophet Mohammed
We don’t really “do” dessert. We really don’t. If we did we’d probably get a lot more hits from Tastespotting and Foodgawker, since they only seem to post chocolate flavored desserts topped liberally with powdered sugar and sprigs [...]
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Posted in Moroccan, Recipe, Recipes, asparagus, cheap meal, chops, grilled, grilling, healthy, lamb, lemon, olives, onions, paprika, pine nuts, pistachios, spices on Jul 26th, 2008
Although we were the lucky recipients of a gorgeous red tagine as an engagement pressie from my parents friends a few years ago, we decided to forgo using it in the 95 degree heat New Yorkers were forced to endure last week. For those who may not know, a tagine (or tajine) is a [...]
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Posted in Elba, Europe, Food Commentary, Italian, Italy, Olive Oil, Pasta, Recipe, Recipes, Restaurant Review, Tuscan, bucatini, culture, dining, diversity, easy, eating, healthy, nuts, pistachios, restaurant, summer, tourism, travel, tuscany, vegetarian on Sep 15th, 2007
When we were in Italy this June for our wedding/honeymoon we not only ate well, drank too well and gained weight, but we took many food risks. The best nights of food seemed to be the nights when the menus were only in Italian and we forgot our little translation book back at the [...]
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