Posted in Japanese, Korean, Recipe, Recipes, appetizer, cheap meal, easy, food, grilled, grilling, lemon, mirin, miso, offal, veal on Jun 2nd, 2008
So I know what you’re already thinking (if you’ve even dared to read this post at all!) - tongue?! WHA-WHA-WHAT!? I think i just threw up a little. Nasty. Or, maybe you’re thinking, “interesting… I’d give it a try… I trust these two.” And possibly you’ve been lucky enough to have tried tongue before and […]
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Posted in Potato, Recipe, Recipes, asparagus, baking, chicken, dauphinoise, easy, fennel, food, gravy, hearty, milk, onions, poultry, side dish, thyme on May 2nd, 2008
Jeffrey Steingarten famously declares in It Must Have Been Something I Ate that every time he is bored, he roasts a chicken. Calculating that he gets bored approximately once a week, this translates into 52 roast chickens a year and more than one thousand since he began as food critic at Vogue. That’s a lot […]
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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 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 Greek, Recipe, Recipes, cheap meal, chicken, easy, food, healthy, lemon, onions, oregano, orzo, pita, quick meal, rice, soup on Feb 7th, 2008
There’s a Greek restaurant up the street from where we live that makes really delicious Avgolemono Soup and we’ve been recreating it at home since we first tried it. The best way to describe this soup is like a lemony, creamy chicken soup - Avgolemono actually means ‘egg-lemon’, natch. The most interesting part about it […]
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Posted in Alton Brown, Recipe, Recipes, anise, cheap meal, easy, fish, food, healthy, lemon, onions, quick meal, salmon, sauce, vegetables on Feb 1st, 2008
As we mentioned in other posts, although our trip to Madrid was fabu and delicious, we definitely needed to abstain from eating any meat and drinking any alcohol the week we returned. It was difficult and I officially think my body went through a strange form of detox - NonCelebrity Vacation Overconsumption Rehab, anyone? Has […]
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Posted in Pasta, Recipe, Recipes, asparagus, cheap meal, food, lemon, quick meal, sauce, vegetarian on Jan 3rd, 2008
Ok, so I’m overusing the title “Quickest Meal Ever”. There can only be one “Quickest Meal”, right? In our bizarre blog world, no. I’ll have as many “Quickest Meal Ever” posts as I want! You know why? Cause they’re quick and we all know you like some things to happen quickly […]
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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 Italian, Italy, Olive Oil, Pasta, Recipe, Recipes, Tuna, cheap meal, easy, easy meal, fish, food, healthy, lemon, lower fat, quick meal, travel, vegetarian on Aug 2nd, 2007
You know when you have one of those Oprah “Ah-Ha!” moments? You know, when the lightbulb goes off in your brain, when it seems as though you finally get it and it all seems just…well… right? Well, on Oprah, most of these “Ah-Ha” moments happen during some emotional breakdown or confrontation. For me, well, […]
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