food

A hobbit’s favorite subject (besides eating).

A Celebration of Tomatoes

As you can probably imagine, tomatoes are my favorite vegetable. Right now, my farmers’ markets are inundated with them: beefsteak tomatoes, Jersey tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, San Marzano tomatoes and Sungold […]

cooking

Polpettine all’Umbra

To most Americans, meatballs are made to be paired with spaghetti or some other type of pasta, typically served in a concoction known as “Sunday gravy“. In the annals of […]

autumn

Labor Day Market Snapshots

Clicking any of the tiles in the mosaic below will bring up a slideshow of photographs. Enjoy the pix.

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August Market Snapshots

As usual, clicking on any of the tiles in the mosaic below will bring up a slideshow. Enjoy the pix.

cooking

Mejadra, with Yogurt and Cucumber

Rice and beans (or peas, or lentils) is a tradition in just about every region I can think of, from the American South (red beans and rice), to India (chana […]

cooking

Green Beans Braised in Tomato Sauce

On Facebook, someone mentioned how the style of my cooking so often can be tracked to old-time Italian country cooking. At the time the recession of 2008 hit, I started […]

American cuisine

Summer Snapshots

Clicking any of the photographs below will bring up a slideshow. Enjoy the pix.

cooking

Chicken with Mustard

A few months ago, I bought “My Paris Kitchen“. It was roughly around this time that I decided to change my habit of rarely cooking directly from cookbooks to more […]

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