B is headed to Las Vegas this week to keep his Dad company, so since he’ll be away from home, I decided to make this weekend’s meals memorable. That old…
I adore minestrone. Minestrone is a soup that embodies the best of “seasonal cooking”. Its content depends on what’s good at the market, and almost always contains a bounty of…
B and I have been together since May 2013. If you count since we’ve been living together, it’s been 3 1/2 years. I prefer to start the clock from the…
I lived in New York City from 1988 till about three months ago, and in all that time, I’d been in only two apartments where the kitchen was bigger than…
A friend of mine once described her favorite childhood meal as a plate of fried pork chops, served with rice and sliced ice-cold tomatoes. Her mom would fry the chops…
When someone asks me “What do you like to cook?”, I almost invariably answer “Italian”. If pressed for detail, I sometimes answer “Mediterranean-style vegetable-focused cooking, with a strong preference towards…
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…
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…
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…
