Posted in Europe, Genoa, Genovese, Italian, Italy, Recipe, Recipes, appetizer, batter, broiled, chick peas, chickpeas, easy meal, flour, lower fat, pine nuts, rosemary, sage, salad, salt, savory, street food, travel, vegetables, vegetarian, vinaigrette on Jul 30th, 2008
The Italian region of Liguria is famous for its dramatic landscape of mountains plunging into crystal clear waters, and narrow terraced fields leading down to tiny, colorful villages precipitously perched on the edges of cliffs of which the Cinque Terre (five lands) of Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore in La Spezia province […]
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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 Europe, Garlic, Madrid, Recipe, Recipes, Spain, acorns, anchovies, appetizer, bread, culture, delicacy, easy, grilled, grilling, ham, holiday, iberico, jamon, pigs, pinchos, piquillo peppers, racione, tapas, tomato, tourism, tradition, travel on Jul 18th, 2008
Not long ago our good friend Nuria at Recipes Pic by Pic offered to do a food exchange with us, knowing both how obsessed we are with Spanish food and their comparative scarcity over here in the States. In return she asked that we send her some typical American products of our choice as well […]
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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 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 Bastille Day, Carcassonne, Europe, Food Commentary, France, French, French-ness, culture, eating, festival, food, french fries, fried, grilled, grilling, history, holiday, patriotism, podcast, sandwiches, sausage, street food, summer, tourism, tradition, travel, unhealthy on May 6th, 2008
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A few summers ago we were very fortunate to spend a long vacation traveling through northern Spain and southwestern France. It was our first real vacation alone since Amy and I had met, and was especially well-deserved because we had spent the previous 12 months going through the traumatic […]
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Posted in Cacio e Pepe, Europe, Food Commentary, Italian, Italy, Olive Oil, Pasta, Rachel Ray, Recipe, Recipes, Roman, Rome, butter, cheap meal, cheese, culture, easy, easy meal, food, language, meal, noodles, pepper, quick meal, restaurant, savory, spicy, tourism, tradition, travel, vegetarian on Apr 29th, 2008
I think the title of this post says it all about my feelings (and others) about the famous Romans dish of pasta, traditionally spaghetti, with pecorino cheese and a good amount of freshly ground pepper. The name says is all - cacio, meaning cheese, and pepe meaning pepper. We’re not breaking any new ground here […]
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Posted in Asturias, Europe, Recipe, Recipes, Spain, cheap meal, easy, easy meal, fabada, food, french fries, fried, meal, offal, onions, paprika, parsley, restaurant, sauce, thyme, tradition, travel on Apr 18th, 2008
If you are a regular reader of our blog, perhaps you remember this post on my husband’s near-death by gluttony as he ate his way through a giant Asturian meal - fabada. While I had to listen to his groans and watch the thick beads of sweat roll down the side of his head […]
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Posted in Brooklyn, Europe, Food Commentary, Garlic, Italian, Italy, Olive Oil, Park Slope, Pizza, Recipe, Recipes, Roman, anchovies, basil, capers, cheap meal, cheese, cornmeal, culture, delicacy, easy, easy meal, food, important details, mushrooms, onions, pie, rant, restaurant, sauce, technique, tourism, tradition, travel, truffles, vegetarian, vinaigrette on Apr 14th, 2008
We love pizza. We LOVE pizza. If we could eat one thing for the rest of our lives it would be pizza. During our seven weeks spent in Italy over the past two years, we collectively ate over sixty pizzas. This is not a lie, an exaggeration or a pipe dream. We were not force-fed, […]
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Posted in Castillano, Chorizo, Easter, Europe, Food Commentary, Italian, Italian-American, Italy, Lent, Recipe, Recipes, Saveur, Spain, bacon, baking, bread, cheap meal, cornmeal, culture, easy, egg, flour, food, holiday, indulgent meal, morcilla, tradition, unhealthy on Mar 21st, 2008
It was as if it was divine intervention. We finally found morcilla (see picture of sausages below - it’s the black one) in a specialty store up the block but we weren’t prepared to make a fabada or cocido - two other Spanish dishes which call for morcilla. I picked up one of my […]
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