Posted in Bastille Day, Carcassonne, Europe, Food Commentary, France, French, French-ness, culture, eating, festival, food, french fries, fried, grilled, grilling, history, holiday, patriotism, podcast, sandwiches, sausage, street food, summer, tourism, tradition, travel, unhealthy on May 6th, 2008
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A few summers ago we were very fortunate to spend a long vacation traveling through northern Spain and southwestern France. It was our first real vacation alone since Amy and I had met, and was especially well-deserved because we had spent the previous 12 months going through the traumatic […]
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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 Blogroll, Caribbean, Garlic, Jamaican, Recipe, Recipes, allspice, beans, cheap meal, chicken, chile, cilantro, culture, easy, food, fried, grilled, history, orange juice, paprika, pinto beans, plantains, pork, red beans, rice, spices, spicy, tostones, weather on Feb 27th, 2008
Ahhh, jerk chicken. One of my favorite dishes. It’s spicy, kind of sweet and when made well should almost melt in your mouth. On a cold winters night, there’s nothing that can snap you out of a cold-weather-depression than cooking up something from the Islands.
Jerk was used as a way to preserve […]
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Posted in Chorizo, Los Pollitos, Mexican, Recipe, Recipes, avocado, beans, black beans, cheap meal, chicken, chile, chili, cilantro, cornmeal, cream, food, lime, masa, onions, peppers, pinto beans, red beans, serrano, sopes, spicy, tomatillos on Feb 14th, 2008
Almost every time we eat out at one of our favorite local Mexican cheap-eats, it is difficult for me to resist the crunchy and tasty sopes. These traditional Mexican dish involves fried masa cakes and can be topped with a variety of things - chorizo, beef, chicken, pork, veggies or beans. Some are made small […]
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Posted in Feast of 7 Fishes, Italian, Italy, Recipe, Recipes, Squid, asparagus, calamari, culture, fish, food, fried, holiday, language, lemon, mushrooms, seafood, shrimp on Dec 29th, 2007
Like I promised, a new day brings a new recipe from Christmas Eve. To pay homage to my Italian heritage, and also to tip our hat to the country we were married in, we wanted to try our hand at the 7 Fishes tradition. The Feast of the 7 Fishes (called La Vigilia in Italy […]
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Posted in America, Atlantic City, Autumn, Beach, Chorizo, Clams, Food Commentary, Garlic, Potato, Recipe, Recipes, Spain, Squid, bread, calamari, easy meal, eating, fish, food, grilled, healthy, hearty, parsley, pintxos, sausage, seafood, side dish, snapper, spicy, summer, tapas, tomato, vegetables, weather, whole fish, wine on Sep 27th, 2007
Last week we discovered that the 5-day forecast was calling for a week’s worth of blue skies and summer-like weather. Not bad considering this past Sunday marked the beginning of Fall. Now, don’t get me wrong, I do love fall. But, like many, there’s something about summer that just excites me like no other season. […]
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