Posted in England, Food Commentary, Jose Andres, Spain, Squid, appetizer, beer, bread, capers, cheese, easy, eating, food, healthy, lemon, mackerel, manchego, morcilla, peppers, pinchos, pintxos, piquillo peppers, racione, sausage, savory, seafood, soccer, tapas on Jun 8th, 2008
In celebration of the start of Euro 2008 - the European soccer/football championships - yesterday, and in light of the fact that England failed to qualify because they were awful, I am in need of a team to follow, so have decided to become an honorary Spanish soccer fan for the next month, or however […]
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Posted in British, Garlic, Jamie Oliver, Meat, Mexican, Olive Oil, Recipe, Recipes, Spain, Squid, calamari, chile, chipotle, easy, fish, food, grilled, grilling, lemon, morcilla, onions, parsley, racione, sauce, sausage, savory, seafood, spicy, tapas, tomato on Jun 4th, 2008
A lot of people love Jamie Oliver for his informal, cheekie-chappie attitude and antics, which they welcome as a nice break from the seemingly unapproachable TV chefs of the past. Personally, I find his mockney styles and instant familiarity grating, and have let this issue influence my opinion of his cooking. However, I’m big enough […]
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Posted in Bastille Day, Carcassonne, Europe, Food Commentary, France, French, French-ness, culture, eating, festival, food, french fries, fried, grilled, grilling, history, holiday, patriotism, podcast, sandwiches, sausage, street food, summer, tourism, tradition, travel, unhealthy on May 6th, 2008
Download WNF Podcast #2: Sandwich de Merguez
A few summers ago we were very fortunate to spend a long vacation traveling through northern Spain and southwestern France. It was our first real vacation alone since Amy and I had met, and was especially well-deserved because we had spent the previous 12 months going through the traumatic […]
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Posted in Asturias, Chorizo, Europe, Food Commentary, Madrid, Spain, alcohol, alcoholic drink, appetizer, beans, beverage, blood, chops, embarrassment, fabada, food, indulgent meal, lunch, morcilla, offal, pigs, pork, sausage, tapas, tourism, tradition, travel, unhealthy on Mar 7th, 2008
“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
- William Blake
Have you ever thought, as you sit red-faced, breathing shallowly, “just… one… more… bite”? Have you ever then taken that extra bite and thought to yourself — in your blood-starved brain — “maybe, after all, I could manage another one”? And, finally, upon swallowing […]
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Posted in America, Italian, Italy, Little Italy, New York City, Pasta, Recipe, Recipes, broccoli raab, cheap meal, chile, culture, food, healthy, lemon, quick meal, sausage, side dish, spicy, vegetables, vegetarian on Mar 4th, 2008
How many of you out there in We Are Never Full-land have never heard of Broccoli di Rape? Anyone who has heard of it but never saw or ate it? I ask this only because, after researching this delectable, delicious and healthy green, I discovered that it’s U.S. roots (or that the vast […]
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Posted in Italian, Italy, Potato, Recipe, Recipes, beans, bread, cabbage, cheap meal, food, healthy, kale, parsley, sausage, soup, stew, tradition, tuscany, vegetables, vegetarian, weather on Feb 21st, 2008
Continuing with more comforting winter foods, I decided one night to make Ribollita again. Traditionally, this Tuscan dish is usually made one day using whatever leftovers were around and reboiled (what ribollita literally means in Italian) the next for even more of a flavor power-punch. I also read that ribollita should take a total […]
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Posted in British, England, Garlic, Recipe, Recipes, bisto, butter, easy, egg, entertainment, flour, food, gravy, kale, milk, mushy peas, onions, sausage, toad in the hole, tradition on Jan 28th, 2008
In his extremely witty book, French Lessons, Peter Mayle attends the annual Fete de Grenouilles (Festival of Frogs-Legs) in Vittel, France, and describes an instance at the festival banquet in which the, perhaps, unusual French habit of eating frogs was turned on its head by a fellow festival attendee when she asked him, shuddering, if […]
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Posted in Chorizo, Europe, Food Commentary, Madrid, Olive Oil, Potato, Recipe, Recipes, Spain, Squid, cheap meal, culture, egg, food, fried, grilled, history, leek, meatballs, paprika, sauce, sausage, seafood, tapas, tourism, tradition, travel, vegetarian, wine on Jan 24th, 2008
In a later post, the husband will write about all the, shall we say, interesting tapas we ate while in Madrid. When I use the word interesting, I mean that many may find some of these tapas to be gross and/or bizarre. Personally, I am always willing to try something new. Only then can I […]
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Posted in Chorizo, Garlic, Recipe, Recipes, beans, black beans, cheap meal, chile, chili, cilantro, easy, entertainment, food, lime, pinto beans, quick meal, red beans, rice, sausage, side dish, spicy, tradition on Dec 13th, 2007
It is widely-known that one of the meanest, yet most effective, ways of taking revenge on someone for an injustice is by poisoning them. Throughout history countless numbers of important and unimportant people have been killed with poison. So great was the fear of being poisoned that the kings and queens of Great Britain employed […]
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Posted in Autumn, Fall, Recipe, Recipes, beets, cheap meal, easy, easy meal, food, gravy, parsley, polenta, quick meal, sausage, veal on Nov 20th, 2007
Can’t figure out what to make tonight? Well, we couldn’t either. So we found some misfit stuff and threw it together and, you know what… it was pretty good. The roasted beets gave this otherwise ’soft’ meal some necessary crunch, as well as color. The sausages we had were some delicious veal links with sage. […]
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