Recipes
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La Cotognata Leccese: Quince Paste in the Lecce Style
by Silvestro Silvestori on December 07, 2009 in Adventures, Condiments, Photos, Recipes
When the fall arrives in Salento, familiar fruits and vegetables come with it, like old friends that have left town and returned again. Faces light up. There is lots of smiling, happy greetings. ‘We’ll have to have you around for dinner, now that you’re back and all’, folks seem to say, loading up their shopping baskets.
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Vegetarian Chili
by Matt on December 06, 2009 in Entrees, Photos, Recipes
In New England, chili is the way to go this time of year, as there are still plenty of fresh vegetables available, we’re still not used to the cold weather yet (chili will keep you warm), and it works perfectly as a holiday entertaining meal.
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La Passata Del Mezzogiorno: How To Make Tomato Sauce in The Southern Italian Style
by Silvestro Silvestori on December 05, 2009 in Adventures, Condiments, Entrees, Photos, Recipes
It’ll be time to make the annual tomato sauce. I love it so much that I volunteer my services to anyone and everyone that will have me. I could be yours for a plate a pasta, a few sauteed snails and the contents of a reused water bottle of local malvasia.
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Il Vero Vincotto: But For The Love Of All Things Holy, Please Don't Call it Balsalmic Vinegar!
by Silvestro Silvestori on December 03, 2009 in Adventures, Condiments, Photos, Recipes
Today started with a sloppy banging sound on the school’s library window. It was supposed to be a knock, but the person out in the street was clearly using more the palm versus knuckles. I recognised her hand immediately. It was Annalisa, panicky over the huge quantity of grape must beginning to ferment in the back of her car.
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On Diets…
by Alex on November 21, 2009 in Desserts, Photos, Recipes
On Tuesday, I got an email from my best friend with the subject heading “I’m going on a diet.” He proceeded to outline a ridiculously long list of rules that he needed to follow. While I could get on board with some of them like cutting out refined sugars and starches, I had a hard time believing in a diet which tells you to cut out bananas and carrots but still allows steak and cream cheese (fat free of course). In my little vegan head (yes I know, lots of rules there), it just doesn’t make sense!
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Quick Cookies & Slow Molasses
by Matt on November 15, 2009 in Baking, Desserts, Photos, Recipes, Snacks
A thoughtful co-worker suggested that we make cookies for our distribution warehouse as a thank-you for their hard work during the holiday season. We’re going to send two types of cookies and I volunteered to make some Ginger Molasses Spice cookies, inspired by a recipe that I’ve had for awhile. The end result was pretty tasty, especially with the added touch of chopped crystallized ginger sprinkled on the cookies. You may remember my fascination with ginger. It hasn’t ended.
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The Cook Muff
by Alex on November 14, 2009 in Baking, Desserts, Recipes, Snacks
In the spirit of full disclosure: I’ve never put up a blog post and I have a hard time following recipes. What I lack in experience and attention to detail, I make up for in familial connections. You see, Matt is my first cousin and for as long as I can remember, my partner and crime in the kitchen.
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Sessionable Beer: Part 3
by Matt on November 11, 2009 in Adventures, Beverages, Recipes
And, the bottling process concludes– with a cap!
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Sessionable Beer: Part 2
by Matt on November 10, 2009 in Adventures, Beverages, Recipes
More of the bottling process revealed. Ben teaches us more.
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Moose likes eggplant
by Matt on November 09, 2009 in Entrees, Recipes
I heard from my grandmother last night, when she sent an email out about a recent eggplant parmigiana that she made. Here is her email/recipe, in addition to a photo of her dog Moose, hoping that some of the eggplant might fall on the floor.
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