Posted in Italian, Italy, Recipe, Steak, Tuscan, baking, butter, cream, easy, egg, food, hearty, pepper, salt, side dish, spinach, tuscany, vegetables, vegetarian on Jun 15th, 2008
On almost every diner breakfast menu in the United States you’ll find eggs florentine - a breakfast dish of poached eggs over wilted spinach sitting on half a toasted English muffin (we’ll get into the Englishness of English muffins at another time) and dressed with a hollandaise or bechamel sauce. What makes them Florentine or […]
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Posted in Potato, Recipe, Recipes, asparagus, baking, chicken, dauphinoise, easy, fennel, food, gravy, hearty, milk, onions, poultry, side dish, thyme on May 2nd, 2008
Jeffrey Steingarten famously declares in It Must Have Been Something I Ate that every time he is bored, he roasts a chicken. Calculating that he gets bored approximately once a week, this translates into 52 roast chickens a year and more than one thousand since he began as food critic at Vogue. That’s a lot […]
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Posted in Asian, Garlic, Japanese, Korean, Recipe, Recipes, broiled, chili, easy meal, fish, food, ginger, healthy, mirin, miso, movies, noodles, peppers, quick meal, salmon, seafood, side dish, skin, udon, vegetables on Apr 26th, 2008
Lately, we’ve been making a lot of southern European dishes and we felt we needed a break, but we were also looking for a dish that wouldn’t take all night to make and require us to buy a load of ingredients we’d use for one dish and then sit and rot in our refrigerator. So, […]
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Posted in Asturias, Jose Andres, Olive Oil, Recipe, Recipes, Spain, apples, cabrales, cheese, easy, easy meal, eating, food, food TV, hazelnuts, healthy, herbs, nuts, salad, side dish, travel, vinaigrette on Apr 12th, 2008
There are some things that just strike you as being astonishingly simple, yet brilliantly devised. For example, the interface of an iPod- the way you use it - is unbelievably clever in its design. One “wheel” and one button, and that’s it. Everyone - even me - can figure it out in about 8 seconds. […]
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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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