Frittata: the Italian Shmoo
Frittata of artichokes I should have used a different colored plate. It wouldn’t make a huge difference, but could make my frittata a tad more attractive without adding something that changes the...
View ArticleThe Glorious Fourth
As you might expect, the 4th of July is not a holiday in Italy. My friends get really mixed up about whether it is Thanksgiving or some other celebration. I am going to an annual party given by my...
View ArticleGreek Salad, perfect for picnics
The first time I ever ate a Greek salad was at Jimmy’s Seafood Palace in Yorktown, Virginia. I was about twenty years old. Having been from birth a New Englander when I ordered a salad I expected a...
View ArticlePotato salad with Italian flavors
This was the most popular of the potato salads I made for the 4th of July. Making it was as simple as making the basic American standard potato salad as published last week but leaving out the eggs,...
View ArticleHoisin Zucchine
This is making a silk purse from a sow’s ear. It’s not that I don’t like zucchine, tomatoes, spring onions and garlic, it’s that by the middle of August there have been a lot of them, of all of them....
View ArticleCRUNCH! make them beg for vegetables
Vegetable Strudel You know how when you open a package of filo pastry sheets, you never can use them all up? Well, now I can. I’ve been experimenting with peach recipes, some of which use filo sheets....
View ArticleDinner for snowbound Easterners
Our good friends, the Graefs, lost power during the storm and still don’t have any, so we asked them over for an Italian meal last night. What fun to entertain the desperate! They are so amenable....
View ArticleLigurian Tomato Salad
I’m not sure if I ever published this essential mainstay of my summer life. We are preparing it in class today, so I reckoned if it isn’t here it ought to jump onto the page right now. : Ligurian...
View Article21 tomato salute
This is not tomato this or tomato that, it is tomato, and it feels right now like it may be the best thing I have eaten all year. It came into my mind when I saw the pile of San Marzano tomatoes in a...
View ArticleBrussels Sprouts: love at first bite
Brussels sprouts, quick and easy and as healthful as they come. They're good, too.
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