Posted in Garlic, Olive Oil, Potato, Spain, brandy, castille, chicken, cognac, crispy, fried, herbs, sauce, tapas on Mar 13th, 2010
“Eat no garlic nor onions, lest they find out thy boorish origin by the smell…”
-Don Quixote to Sancho Panza, Chapter XLIII,
Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Sitting around the table last night with gusts of strong breath coloring our domestic atmosphere, Amy and I were considering the profound effect garlic has on [...]
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Posted in Garlic, Italian, Italy, Meat, Recipe, butter, cream, herbs, liver, offal, sage, shallots, tourism, travel, veal on Jul 14th, 2009
“Two households, both alike in dignity
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene”
- William Shakespeare, Prologue to Romeo and Juliet
On our honeymoon, almost exactly two years ago today, we arrived in the fair city of Verona thoroughly pissed off. And then things got worse. It wasn’t as if the day had started badly either: waking [...]
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Posted in Garlic, Murcia, Olive Oil, Recipe, Spain, Squid, calamari, cuttlefish, fish, healthy, peppers, pimenton, piquillo peppers, saffron, seafood, shrimp, squid ink, tomato, travel on Mar 4th, 2009
Those readers who’ve been following us for a while know (and, we hope, appreciate) that we frequently put our bodies and constitutions on the line for your benefit. Indeed, some of you may remember, that during our stay in Madrid last year, one of us, quite literally, pushed himself to breaking point in this endeavor. It was [...]
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Posted in Alba, Garlic, Italian, Italy, Olive Oil, Puglia, Pugliese, celery, culture, lemon, octopus, salad, seafood, tourism, travel, winter on Feb 25th, 2009
Looking for a ray of sunshine in your diet?
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Posted in British, England, Garlic, London, Manchester, Potato, Recipe, beef tallow, carrots, chicken, chicken stock, flavor, flavour, flour, herbs, lard, leek, onions, parsley, parsnips, stew, suet, thyme, vegetables, weather, winter on Jan 16th, 2009
File this one under “utter fabrications told to you by older sibling and believed for too long”. I must have been very young when my sister (15 months my senior) informed me that I should be wary of eating my grandmother’s suet dumplings because suet was the gooey material supporting bovine eye-balls. Quite where she got this [...]
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Posted in Brooklyn, Coco Lezzone, Europe, Florence, Garlic, Italian, Italy, Olive Oil, Recipe, Recipes, Tuscan, chops, easy, herbs, pork, rosemary, sage, thyme, travel, tuscany on Dec 11th, 2008
I feel kinda cheesy. I admit it, I feel cool about using a butcher. I understand this is lame and that butchers have been around for ages, but, truthfully, in the recent year, we’ve really gotten to know our neighborhood butchers. Growing up in the ‘burbs, meat was only bought pre-cut and pre-packaged. [...]
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Posted in Fall, Garlic, Italian, Italy, Liguria, Olive Oil, Piemonte, Potato, Recipe, anchovies, appetizer, butter, condiments, easy, fondue, grilled, tradition, travel, vegetables, winter on Nov 29th, 2008
And, while you’re at it, good fellow, I’ll have a warm bath with virtually anything you’ve got on the menu: pasta, potatoes, fish, chicken, soup, bread…
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before…
A man goes to the doctor complaining of neck ache. The doctor gives him some painkillers telling him to take two after a [...]
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Posted in Fall, Garlic, Olive Oil, Recipe, breadcrumbs, butter, easy, egg, flour, herbs, lemon, liver, lunch, mushrooms, thyme, veal, weather on Nov 19th, 2008
A month or so ago we bought a package of veal liver at our local grocery store telling ourselves that we going to cook them, but not really having any idea how. We’ve made veal kidneys before without relying on a recipe so we were convinced we could do the same with the beast’s liver, [...]
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