Posted in Europe, Italian, Italy, Pasta, Recipe, Recipes, Tuscan, bunny, culture, dining, food, game, hearty, rabbit, restaurant, slow cooking, spices, stew, tourism, travel, tuscany, wine on Jul 8th, 2008
Remember way back yonder, when the weather was still cool, we were on the search for some rabbit to make? We ended up calling around to butchers around Brooklyn and found a place that had them and asked them to save two for us. When we arrived, the butcher handed us our babies and, with […]
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Posted in Italian, Italy, Recipe, Steak, Tuscan, baking, butter, cream, easy, egg, food, hearty, pepper, salt, side dish, spinach, tuscany, vegetables, vegetarian on Jun 15th, 2008
On almost every diner breakfast menu in the United States you’ll find eggs florentine - a breakfast dish of poached eggs over wilted spinach sitting on half a toasted English muffin (we’ll get into the Englishness of English muffins at another time) and dressed with a hollandaise or bechamel sauce. What makes them Florentine or […]
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Posted in Food Commentary, Italian, Italy, Tuscan, Vin Santo, alcohol, alcoholic drink, beverage, biscotti, delicacy, dessert, drink, food, grapes, madeira, malvasia, sweet, tourism, tradition, travel, trebbiano, tuscany, wine on May 29th, 2008
Regular readers must find us horrible bores as we bang on about our wedding and honeymoon in Italy last year almost constantly. On our penultimate day of our three week trip, we raided an enormous supermarket in the suburbs of Montevarchi for the Tuscan products we cannot find or cannot afford here in NYC, and […]
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Posted in Italian, Italy, Potato, Recipe, Recipes, beans, bread, cabbage, cheap meal, food, healthy, kale, parsley, sausage, soup, stew, tradition, tuscany, vegetables, vegetarian, weather on Feb 21st, 2008
Continuing with more comforting winter foods, I decided one night to make Ribollita again. Traditionally, this Tuscan dish is usually made one day using whatever leftovers were around and reboiled (what ribollita literally means in Italian) the next for even more of a flavor power-punch. I also read that ribollita should take a total […]
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Posted in Food Commentary, Italian, New York City, Pasta, Restaurant Review, food, indulgent meal, offal, salami, tripe, tuscany on Oct 29th, 2007
This review won’t be long, and I won’t make it fancy. It’s been almost 24 hours since I left A Voce, the upscale modern Italian eatery in a strange part of the Flatiron district of Manhattan run by a former chef at Cafe Boulud, Andrew Carmellini. My body may have left there at 11PM Saturday, […]
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Posted in Coco Lezzone, Florence, Italian, Italy, Olive Oil, Recipe, Recipes, Tuscan, basil, bread, food, healthy, hearty, soup, tomato, 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 Elba, Europe, Food Commentary, Italian, Italy, Olive Oil, Pasta, Recipe, Recipes, Restaurant Review, Tuscan, bucatini, culture, dining, diversity, easy, easy meal, eating, food, healthy, nuts, pistachios, restaurant, summer, tourism, travel, tuscany, vegetarian on Sep 15th, 2007
When we were in Italy this June for our wedding/honeymoon we not only ate well, drank too well and gained weight, but we took many food risks. The best nights of food seemed to be the nights when the menus were only in Italian and we forgot our little translation book back at the […]
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Posted in Food Commentary, Italian, Italy, Tuscan, beans, food, important details, tourism, tradition, travel, tuscany on Apr 13th, 2007
Excuse me waiter, this steak looks a little rare…
This post was written like several others on this blog, ahead of our recent nuptials in Tuscany - hence its focus on Tuscan cuisine. Look out for future posts on our attempts to recreate the Tuscan dishes we enjoyed the most.
Now that you’ve come to terms with […]
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