Home Delivery
An initial take on homemade pizza with a simple yeasted crust and a variety of toppings.
Tag Archives: Italian
Paul’s Party, Part 1: Bits and Bobs
An overview of some of the food I prepared for a friend's going-away party: Spreads with fresh bread, roasted chickpeas, fried zucchini roll-ups, and watermelonade.
Tilapia: Variations on a Theme
Tasty tilapia from Asia to Italy: Five-spice tilapia with ponzu sauce and veggie-fied garlic noodles; and tilapia piccata over sun-dried tomato couscous.
I’m Melting (and Garlic Scape Orecchiette)
While totally making over a room in our house, I tried my hand at making some intense garlic scape pesto, served over pasta with sauteed fava beans.
Fava Pasta for Sher
Fettuccine with a velvety fava bean sauce, garnished with salty feta and crisp bacon, in honor of fellow foodblogger Sher of What Did You Eat?
Not Beeten Down
A partially successful attempt to make beets palatable to us: they colored the homemade fettuccine and studded the sauce, along with sauteed beet greens and tangy goat cheese.
Bay Scallop Risotto
A straightforward risotto flavored with dried porcini mushrooms and dotted with tender bay scallops.
Oxtail Ragu to Have a Baby By
My son's birth story, in great detail. How many women eat pasta with homemade oxtail ragu for dinner while in labor? Not many, I'm guessing.
Minestrone and Mac
Italian vegetable soup paired with Dorie Greenspan's corn muffins for a crisper-cleaning, barrel-scraping meal. Plus, a use for those leftover corn muffins the next day---City Bakery's mac and cheese!
Now That’s More Like It
Pantry pasta at its finest: rotini with a sauce of kidney beans, bacon, garlic, onion and a handful of baby spinach.
I Need Help
Brown and white food may not be the healthiest, but it is so yummy. A veritable landslide of dichromatic meals, from pastas to baked goods to breakfast, with a finale of saffron-yellow fettuccine and leek…
Meant to Happen
Homemade gianduja (chocolate-hazelnut) gelato is heaven in a bowl (or cone, or any other chosen delivery system).
Simmering
Braising was the holiday watchword: monkfish, short ribs, and Brussels sprouts. With a bonus shot of my favorite work in progress.
Shades of Grey
Pale amaretti cookies meet gray buckwheat cookies in a mini-smorgasbord of Italian pastries.
Pork Chahps and Gahlic Sauce
Fresh sardines with pepperonata, 7-hour leg of lamb, and pork chops with a garlic-cream sauce.
Cracking Up
A whole crimson snapper baked rather spectacularly in a coarse salt crust.
A Mediocre Menu (and My Ultimate Comfort Food)
Noil's Noodles---a straight-up Americanized version of what was once a Thai noodle dish---may not be much to look at, but always hits the spot when I'm feeling low.
A Miscellany of Pasta
Linguine carbonara, and Vietnamese beef and broccoli with an attempted noodle pancake.
Making the Most of Meatballs
Leftover Greek lamb meatballs cross over to the Italian realm with spaghetti, and a fabulous half-braised/half-fried potato recipe.