Posted in British, Jewish, Manchester, Portuguese, Recipe, Recipes, ale, batter, beef tallow, beer, butter, capers, chips, crispy, easy, egg, fish, food, french fries, fried, history, lard, mushy peas, oil, olives, peas, salt, sauce, seafood, side dish, tartar, tradition, travel, vegetables, vinegar on Oct 31st, 2008
Happy Hallowe’en, WANF readers! Instead of posting shots of us dressed up in costume as the tastiest parts of a pig’s anatomy, we’re celebrating All Soul’s Day and the arrival of a much-needed weekend with a classic Friday night dish from the British Isles (where in truth, Hallowe’en has never really caught on in the […]
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Posted in New Jersey, Olive Oil, Recipe, Recipes, butter, cabbage, capers, chipotle, crab, easy, lemon, peppers, sandwiches, sauce, soft-shell on Jun 28th, 2008
So now you’ve searched high and low for soft-shell crabs, maybe to make Soft-Shell Crabs with Butter and Garlic and a side of Aglio e Olio? I can just see it - you finally find them and, in a panic, you decide to spend part of your life savings so you can put a bunch […]
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Posted in Brooklyn, Europe, Food Commentary, Garlic, Italian, Italy, Olive Oil, Park Slope, Pizza, Recipe, Recipes, Roman, anchovies, basil, capers, cheap meal, cheese, cornmeal, culture, delicacy, easy, easy meal, food, important details, mushrooms, onions, pie, rant, restaurant, sauce, technique, tourism, tradition, travel, truffles, vegetarian, vinaigrette on Apr 14th, 2008
We love pizza. We LOVE pizza. If we could eat one thing for the rest of our lives it would be pizza. During our seven weeks spent in Italy over the past two years, we collectively ate over sixty pizzas. This is not a lie, an exaggeration or a pipe dream. We were not force-fed, […]
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Posted in America, Easter, Meat, Provencal, bay, braised, bunny, capers, chicken stock, delicacy, dining, diversity, eating, flour, food, game, healthy, hearty, lower fat, mustard, olives, onions, parsley, podcast, rabbit, rosemary, savory, slow cooking, thyme on Mar 27th, 2008
It’s the Thursday after Easter and most people out there are still picking the candy and chocolate out of their teeth having just gorged themselves on all manner of Easter Bunny-shaped confectionery. Ever the destroyers of convention, we have been doing something altogether more real and, some may say, sinister. Yes, friends, cover your children’s […]
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Posted in Olive Oil, Recipe, Recipes, alcaparrado, allspice, avocado, capers, chile, chops, cilantro, food, lime, olives, orange juice, pork, spicy, yucca on Nov 5th, 2007
I used to make these braised pork-chops quite regularly - several times a year, but I hadn’t made them for probably a year until last Thursday when Amy and I realized that we hadn’t even eaten pork chops for about four months.
The recipe is actually one of my originals, although I’m sure there are others […]
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