Posted in cheap meal, cream, Italian, kale, mushrooms, Pasta, quick meal, Recipe, Recipes, spicy, vegetables on Nov 1st, 2007
So the other night I needed to use up some veggies that were about a day or two away from growing hair (or at least some mold). I looked and found kale, mushrooms, some wilting leeks and two shriveled small cayanne peppers we had picked from our little backyard garden about 5 weeks ago. HMMMMMMM… [...]
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Posted in bread, butter, cheap meal, dining, easy, eating, fish, fried, lemon, lower fat, magazine, Recipe, Recipes, sauce, Saveur, savory, white bread, white fish on Oct 17th, 2007
***No, this is not a grilled-cheese sandwich! I have to give it up to my favorite cooking mag Saveur (and subsequently the chef who created this recipe, Bruce Sherman of North Pond in Chicago) for introducing me to one of the coolest, most creative and tasty ways to cook fish. In the October, 2007 issue [...]
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Posted in Asturias, cheap meal, chick peas, chickpeas, Chorizo, culture, easy, Food Commentary, ham, healthy, hearty, kale, meal, Potato, quick meal, Recipe, Recipes, sausage, soup, Spain, tourism, travel on Oct 11th, 2007
Several years ago, on a trip to northern Spain I found myself in the small town of Santillana del Mar in the region of Cantabria on a cold and rainy night. Outside the hotel, a herd of dismal-looking goats shivered together in the lee of a thorn bush as it got dark, and all I [...]
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Posted in basil, bread, Coco Lezzone, Florence, healthy, hearty, Italian, Italy, Olive Oil, Recipe, Recipes, soup, tomato, Tuscan, tuscany, vegetables, vegetarian on Oct 3rd, 2007
Last night I posted a story about the Pappa al Pomodoro (Tomato and Bread Soup) I was going to attempt to recreate for dinner. Well, We Are Never Full readers, the recreation was a success! I really hope some of you will try to make this hearty, delicious and simple recipe. It was very easy [...]
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Posted in asparagus, cheap meal, easy, egg, fish, French, healthy, Olive Oil, quick meal, Recipe, Recipes, salad, Tuna on Sep 13th, 2007
If you’re like me, you love to eat… and drink… and eat and drink. This is what the weekends are for! We often are more gluttonous on a Friday and Saturday night that by Sunday we’re rubbing our bloated bellies with the Sunday blues and the need to detox. Many Monday dinners are “light” (well, [...]
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Posted in cheap meal, cilantro, coconut, easy, quick meal, Recipe, Recipes, rice, shrimp, spicy, summer, vegetables on Aug 15th, 2007
My office is laid out in such a way that my desk faces a wall and the only window in the room is small, high-up and 10 yards behind me as I face my computer. This is hardly a feng-shui arrangement of light and furniture, and given that my monitor faces the interior of the [...]
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Posted in cheap meal, easy, fish, healthy, Italian, Italy, lemon, lower fat, Olive Oil, Pasta, quick meal, Recipe, Recipes, travel, Tuna, 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, I [...]
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