Posted in Italian, Italy, Olive Oil, Pasta, Recipe, Recipes, easy, easy meal, egg, pancetta, quick meal, vegetables on Jun 20th, 2008
Ok, so this is just a quick entry for a nice, summer Friday (where I’d rather be outside than blogging!) for a quick, nice summer meal. It was one of those ‘fridge meals’ where we had to use up some veggies and is not super different from some of the other ‘fridge meals’ (often […]
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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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I’ve been attempting to figure out how the hell to post this delicious but not super crazy concoction on the blog for a bit of time now, but finally the perfect event came my way and all is good. Fun and Food is hosting this months Monthly Mingle, an event started by What’s For […]
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Posted in Barolo, Bologna, Garlic, Recipe, batter, breadcrumbs, broccoli raab, chops, crispy, dining, flour, food, fried, herbs, lamb, polenta, rosemary, tourism, travel, vegetables on May 14th, 2008
I feel like we go on and on ad nauseam about our trip to Italy last summer, and I suspect that if it hasn’t happened already, our faithful readers will begin to tire of our constant references to those halcyon days of pastoral bliss, romantic nuptials, and devastatingly good food. So, before your goodwill towards […]
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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 Garlic, Italian, Mario Batali, Olive Oil, Recipe, Recipes, artichoke, cheap meal, cheese, chile, easy, easy meal, food, lemon, meal, parsley, vegetables, vegetarian on Mar 29th, 2008
With artichokes on sale for 98 cents each (better than the rabbit we bought the other week!), I just had to pick a few up. For some reason, I only grabbed two thinking I would make an appetizer or a side-dish with them. Well, let me tell you, this slight adaptation of a […]
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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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Posted in Food Commentary, Recipe, Recipes, baking, cheap meal, cornmeal, easy, easy meal, food, fried, fritters, healthy, important details, lemon, lower fat, parsley, salt, sauce, seafood, side dish, snapper, tradition, vegetables, vegetarian, whole fish on Mar 11th, 2008
Salt. Does this word get your stomach growling? Get your mouth salivating? Lips smacking? Make you want to just ‘dig in’? Probably not. But could we live without it? Most definitely not. Doing some brief research on this dietary mineral not only “schooled” me on its lengthy history, but it also made me majorly appreciate […]
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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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