Posted in Italian, Italy, Recipe, Roman, Rome, butter, cheese, cream, crispy, egg, food, gnocchi, history, parmigiano reggiano, polenta, semolina, vegetarian on Sep 4th, 2008
As I wrote in the title of this post, the Romans do it again… and again… and again. Roman cuisine is one of our favorites and Rome is one of our favorite cities to visit and eat in. This dish, gnocchi alla romana, is a dish that reminds me how versatile, creative and (I’ve said […]
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Posted in Garlic, Olive Oil, Recipe, Recipes, basil, breadcrumbs, cheap meal, cheese, crispy, easy, food, herbs, tomato, vegetables, vegetarian on Aug 23rd, 2008
Hey,We Are Never Full readers. We haven’t been posting as frequently or visiting other sites because, well, we’re on vacation. We are in California for the next week but brought our laptop to attempt to blog a bit. As you all know - when you’re on vacation, blogging just isn’t a priority. […]
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Posted in Europe, Genoa, Genovese, Italian, Italy, Recipe, Recipes, appetizer, batter, broiled, chick peas, chickpeas, easy meal, flour, lower fat, pine nuts, rosemary, sage, salad, salt, savory, street food, travel, vegetables, vegetarian, vinaigrette on Jul 30th, 2008
The Italian region of Liguria is famous for its dramatic landscape of mountains plunging into crystal clear waters, and narrow terraced fields leading down to tiny, colorful villages precipitously perched on the edges of cliffs of which the Cinque Terre (five lands) of Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore in La Spezia province […]
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Posted in Philadelphia, Recipe, Recipes, culture, dessert, easy, lemon, tradition, vegetarian, water on Jul 12th, 2008
Another post that brings me back to my childhood while growing up in the outskirts of Philadelphia and its plethora of suburbs. One of my favorite summertime treats (I was too young to know the beauty that is a soft-shell crab, mind you) was a local treat called Water Ice (pronounced “wooder ice” when […]
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Posted in Japanese, Recipe, Recipes, egg, food, lower fat, mirin, salmon, sauce, skin, vegetarian on Jun 18th, 2008
We made sushi recently. This in itself is slightly unusual here at We Are Never Full, but not completely out of the ordinary as we are regulars at more than one of our local Japanese restaurants and have homemade sushi a couple of times before. Indeed, the sushi rolls we made were not wildly unusual […]
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