Musings on Starters, Mains, Desserts and Second-Helpings…
Posted in Fall, Garlic, Olive Oil, Recipe, breadcrumbs, butter, easy, egg, flour, food, 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, […]
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 […]
Posted in Garlic, Italian, Olive Oil, Pernil, Recipe, Recipes, anchovies, cheap meal, easy, easy meal, food, herbs, lemon, parsley, pork, skin, slow cooking, thyme on Apr 6th, 2008
One of the tastiest and cheapest things I can buy in my grocery store is a bone-in pork shoulder. When I saw that they were on sale for 79 cents (YES, that’s right) a pound, I figured I’d pick one up. For only two of us, I bought the smallest one I found […]
Posted in Garlic, Jacques Pepin, Meat, Recipe, Recipes, braised, dining, easy, easy meal, eating, food, healthy, lamb, lower fat, mushroom, mushrooms, onions, pressure-cooker, rosemary, safety, savory, shanks, thyme, water, wine, winter on Sep 18th, 2007
So maligned are pressure-cookers that it seems almost sacrilegious of a food blog like this, that likes to extol the virtues of fresh ingredients and traditional cooking methods, to even consider adding a recipe that calls for using one. Undaunted, here we are flaunting convention and defying the culinary thought-police once more with a recipe […]
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