Posted in Europe, Food Commentary, Garlic, Olive Oil, Recipe, Recipes, Spain, barbecue, culture, delicacy, festival, festivals, fish, grilled, paprika, peppers, sauce, tradition, white bread, whole fish on Jul 22nd, 2008
As you know, we received a beautiful package from a fellow blogger in Spain and we have been slowly using all the contents in various meals. Another element of this package was a jar of Spanish Marcona almonds. These almonds are amazing on their own and taste incredibly different (sweeter and meatier) than the […]
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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 Italian, Italy, Meat, Naples, Napoli, Pasta, Recipe, Recipes, Saveur, beef, cheap meal, culture, eating, food, ground meat, hearty, holiday, language, milk, pancetta, pork, sauce, slow cooking, tomato, tourism, tradition, travel, wine on Apr 22nd, 2008
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Warning! You are about to read a lot about a dish that many would think could be discussed in one paragraph - Bolognese Ragu. After two trips to Bologna, I really began to understand how seriously the people […]
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Posted in Blogroll, Italian, Italy, Olive Oil, Pasta, Recipe, Recipes, butter, culture, egg, embarrassment, food, indulgent meal, other regions, radicchio, sauce, tourism, travel, tuscany, vegetarian, watercress on Mar 15th, 2008
Ever since we bought our Kitchen Aid Mixer (kneel down, bow your head in a moment of silence, please), I have only used it for one thing - making pasta. I am not a baker. I can not even pretend to be one. In fact, the other day, I thought I’d be […]
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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 Clams, Feast of 7 Fishes, Garlic, Italian, Olive Oil, Pasta, Recipe, Recipes, Squid, calamari, chile, chili, chilli, crab, easy, fish, food, parsley, sauce, seafood, shrimp, spicy, tomato on Jan 13th, 2008
Apologies for the break since our last post. The husband’s sister got married last weekend in London and we took a break in Madrid afterwards. The city is beautiful and energetic with an unbelievable food and drink scene. I have some extra padding around the waist to prove it! We are […]
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Posted in Italian, Pasta, Recipe, Recipes, cheap meal, cream, easy meal, food, kale, mushrooms, quick meal, 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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