From the category archives:

Starches | Pasta

Food Foray # 2.2

If you missed it, this is the follow-up post to Food Foray # 2.1. Last week, I pulled the meat out of two cooked King crab legs to make a crab manicotti appetizer for a Holiday Dinner At Home with Barry’s daughters. While the appetizer turned out okay, I think I’m gonna keep playing with [...]

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Brown-Nosing The Boss

In December 2008, I volunteered to cater my office’s Holiday Party. Around the same time, I invited one of the owners to lunch, just to get to know him a little bit better. At that lunch, I learned three things: he was a self-declared introvert, he enjoyed pinot noirs, and he loved pasta puttanesca, but [...]

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Food Foray # 1.2

If you missed it, this is the follow-up post to Food Foray # 1.1. It was a busy week, so we just got around to playing with the roasted butternut squash. The plusses – the butternut puree mixture that went into the ravioli was outstanding. So were the fried sage leaves. The construction of the [...]

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Lunch a la Provence

Manila clams are small, sweet and delicious. While they originally hail from Japan, they’re also farmed on the west coast. Over time, you’ll see that we use these in a lot of our recipes. Especially when we find them on sale. One of our favorite ways to do clams, is to have them with pasta [...]

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The Vietnamese Italian

Growing up, I loved my mother’s spaghetti and my aunt’s lasagna. While I have no idea what was in my aunt’s lasagna, my mother’s spaghetti sauce recipe was simple: sauté one onion. Add a pound of ground beef. Discard fat. Add package of Lawry’s Spaghetti Seasoning. Add can of tomato sauce. Salt, pepper and serve [...]

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