fabulous fare from a lover of food & travel
With Angie away in Vancouver, I’ve been working hard and living on not much more than macaroni and cheese. But despite my energies being focused elsewhere, even I can only take so much bland pseudo-bachelordom. Thankfully, I remembered that not too long ago, Angie and I threw together some fresh tomato sauce-the perfect recipe to…
In my ongoing search for new and interesting recipes, I came across a recipe for shrimp and butternut squash risotto. This was not a combination of elements that I would have ever considered. However, we conceded that we do love butternut squash, we’re fans of shrimp–throwing them together can only produce an additive goodness effect!…
I’m not sure why I’m such a fan of liver and liver-related products (such as foie gras). There’s just such a wonderful creaminess to it along with a lovely, round flavour. To that end, I came across a recipe for a pasta sauce involving chicken livers in Hazan’s The Classic Italian Cook Book and set…
David sent me a link to a recipe a few weeks ago for a super simple tomato sauce. As I’m always interested in sources, I looked up the recipe’s author, Marcella Hazan, turns out she’s an authority on Italian cooking. Quite by accident, when browsing a used bookstore, I came across her original cook book…
It was an evening of drawing upon available items in the cupboard. For Christmas, my sister had gotten us a selection of dried wild mushrooms that we hadn’t yet used. Combine this with David’s hankering for risotto and we get chicken, mushroom and pine nut risotto.
As we had rationed the chicken liver we’d purchased the other day (as opposed to our usual route of just making a giant batch of liver paté), we opted to try a chicken liver risotto. As you will see in the following post, D was particularly excited about his acquisition of raw pork belly and…
This dish is a favourite of David’s, so it’s always a bit ominous attempting something so beloved. But, with the guidance of Silver Spoon (our Italian cooking bible), we embarked on this Italian classic. I had stopped earlier in the day to pick up pancetta, Parmesan and Romano from Cioffi’s. It seemed appropriate to go…