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 Mexican, Recipe, Recipes, Steak, barbecue, beef, cabbage, cheap meal, chile, chili, cilantro, culture, easy, language, lime, meal, oregano, peppers, serrano, spicy, technique, tomatillos, tortilla, tortillas, tradition on Apr 10th, 2008
Normally we wouldn’t post a recipe for something as everyday as a steak taco. Most people know how to make them, right? But how many take the time to cook them really, really well? It actually doesn’t take much longer to make them more authentic. I’m not being a food snob […]
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Posted in Alba, Barbaresco, Barolo, Food Commentary, Italian, Italy, Meat, Piemonte, Steak, butter, compound, delicacy, easy, food, indulgent meal, tourism, travel, truffles on Apr 8th, 2008
I don’t think I’m the most creative person in the world, but I do have lots of ideas. Most of them are very mediocre and often focused narrowly on how I can explain being late for work again, or why I didn’t call my sister, but very occasionally I’ll have a good idea. Marrying my […]
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Posted in Eric Bana, Fast Food, Fast Food Nation, Food Commentary, Jim Harrison, Munich, Oscars, Steak, eastenders, entertainment, film, food, jamon, movies, television show on Feb 28th, 2008
So, it took Sunday night’s Oscars (and Jim Harrison’s The Raw and the Cooked) to get me thinking about movies and food, or more properly, food in the movies. I’m not talking about popcorn and slippery nachos washed down with a gallon of fountain soda here, I’m talking about movies in which food is actually […]
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Posted in Recipe, Recipes, Steak, beef, butter, chips, compound butter, food, french fries, fried, indulgent meal, martini, meal, tarragon on Oct 14th, 2007
After a long, hard week at work, Jonny and I usually try and treat ourselves on Friday nights, especially when the weather turns colder, to a drink and an indulgent meal. Ok, we don’t just reserve this for Fridays only, but for some reason, a drink and a meal always seems to just taste better […]
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