Posted in Castillano, Europe, Fino, Rachel Ray, Recipe, Recipes, Spain, blogging, castille, chicken, chicken stock, easy, food, hazelnuts, nuts, poultry, rant, saffron, tradition, wine on May 17th, 2008
Usually if I’m trying to make an authentic dish, I always try to make it just that - authentic. That means that I want to use traditional ingredients and I attempt to research the many traditional ways to make that specific dish. I then decide how to combine the best bits from all […]
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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 Mexican, Recipe, Recipes, Steak, barbecue, beef, cabbage, cheap meal, chile, chili, cilantro, culture, easy, language, lime, meal, oregano, peppers, serrano, spicy, technique, tomatillos, tortilla, tortillas, tradition on Apr 10th, 2008
Normally we wouldn’t post a recipe for something as everyday as a steak taco. Most people know how to make them, right? But how many take the time to cook them really, really well? It actually doesn’t take much longer to make them more authentic. I’m not being a food snob […]
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Posted in Chorizo, Food Commentary, Madrid, Rachel Ray, Spain, chickpeas, food, pork, rant, stew, travel on Feb 19th, 2008
I know, guys… yet again, another Ray-Ray complaint. I just can NOT stop. I try, kids… I REALLY freaking try. I put her show on and within 30 seconds, I put her on mute. Within a minute, the channel is changed. I can’t do it. I try over and over again, […]
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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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Regular readers of this blog, and we still believe there are some, though we use the term regular advisedly, might be under the mistaken impression that we are firmly anti-sandwich after reading several of the “At the desk gourmet” posts in which we spoke somewhat derogatorily of “soggy, $8″ sandwiches that had spent the day […]
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