Posted in Olive Oil, Recipe, butter, easy, fennel, fish, healthy, lower fat, quick meal, shark, skate, superman, sustainable, tomato, vegetables, vinaigrette, white fish, whole fish on Aug 8th, 2008
Please forgive the headline — I couldn’t resist, but in all honesty, there are some similarities between the subject of this post and Clark Kent’s alter-ego. You see, the skate is to the world of fish what the nerdy-looking Kent is to the Daily Planet –a journeyman, overlooked and underrated by those who should know […]
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Posted in Cacio e Pepe, Europe, Food Commentary, Italian, Italy, Olive Oil, Pasta, Rachel Ray, Recipe, Recipes, Roman, Rome, butter, cheap meal, cheese, culture, easy, easy meal, food, language, meal, noodles, pepper, quick meal, restaurant, savory, spicy, tourism, tradition, travel, vegetarian on Apr 29th, 2008
I think the title of this post says it all about my feelings (and others) about the famous Romans dish of pasta, traditionally spaghetti, with pecorino cheese and a good amount of freshly ground pepper. The name says is all - cacio, meaning cheese, and pepe meaning pepper. We’re not breaking any new ground here […]
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Posted in America, Italian, Italy, Little Italy, New York City, Pasta, Recipe, Recipes, broccoli raab, cheap meal, chile, culture, food, healthy, lemon, quick meal, sausage, side dish, spicy, vegetables, vegetarian on Mar 4th, 2008
How many of you out there in We Are Never Full-land have never heard of Broccoli di Rape? Anyone who has heard of it but never saw or ate it? I ask this only because, after researching this delectable, delicious and healthy green, I discovered that it’s U.S. roots (or that the vast […]
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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 Garlic, Potato, Recipe, Recipes, bacon, cheap meal, easy, food, fried, leek, quick meal, soup, vegetables, vegetarian on Feb 3rd, 2008
Another meat-free meal (with exception of our bacon crumbles garnish) once we returned from our pig-fest in Madrid. This one was a winner! The fried leeks added a bit of crunch (if you want to take the extra time to do this). We added a bit of sour cream for a bit of extra creaminess, […]
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Posted in British, England, Garlic, Recipe, Recipes, bisto, butter, easy, egg, entertainment, flour, food, gravy, kale, milk, mushy peas, onions, sausage, toad in the hole, tradition on Jan 28th, 2008
In his extremely witty book, French Lessons, Peter Mayle attends the annual Fete de Grenouilles (Festival of Frogs-Legs) in Vittel, France, and describes an instance at the festival banquet in which the, perhaps, unusual French habit of eating frogs was turned on its head by a fellow festival attendee when she asked him, shuddering, if […]
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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 Garlic, Jacques Pepin, Olive Oil, Pasta, Recipe, Recipes, asparagus, butter, cheap meal, cheese, easy, egg, food, leek, mushroom, quick meal on Nov 29th, 2007
Wow… that title is a bit long, but it’s the best description I could come up with. This meal is absolutely delicious, quick and cheap. It is adapted from our favorite master chef - Jacques Pepin. On his PBS show Fast Food My Way (WATCH IT!!!), Jacques creates seemingly difficult and creative dishes in no […]
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Posted in Autumn, Fall, Recipe, Recipes, beets, cheap meal, easy, easy meal, food, gravy, parsley, polenta, quick meal, sausage, veal on Nov 20th, 2007
Can’t figure out what to make tonight? Well, we couldn’t either. So we found some misfit stuff and threw it together and, you know what… it was pretty good. The roasted beets gave this otherwise ’soft’ meal some necessary crunch, as well as color. The sausages we had were some delicious veal links with sage. […]
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Posted in Garlic, Italian, Olive Oil, Pasta, Recipe, Recipes, cheese, chile, chilli, food, kale, pork, sausage, wine on Nov 14th, 2007
This is a famous (and rightly so) southern Italian dish, popularized in red sauce joints across the north-east of America. I’ve eaten it at Franco & Luigi’s in south Philadelphia and at La Villa in Park Slope, Brooklyn, amongst other places, and enjoyed the contrast of the garlicky sausage, the heat of the pepperoncino and […]
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