First courses :

Fava Beans with Poached Egg Crostini

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Yesterday I found myself sitting on a park bench underneath a remarkably giant fig tree in the center of Fremantle, Australia trying not be disturbed by the smashed bits of expensive fruit (in the USA at least) that covered the ground[...]

More Lore For An Original Cobb Salad

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The Brown Derby is perhaps the most well known of all the iconic restaurants of old Hollywood. Partly due to Lucille Ball and the famous scene between her and the actor William[...]

Market Matters- Chanterelle Chanteuse

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There is a certain sound in the air. Have you heard it? It's a happy sound. I think you know what it is. It is the change of seasons. There has been a subtle shift in the[...]

The art of Italian cooking: egg pasta

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Hi. This is the twenty fifth post about the art of cooking Italian pasta. It’s time to speak about egg pasta for two reasons. We have showed you a lot of pasta recipes and pasta sauces in the last weeks but all the recipes are made with dry[...]

Remembering Beets So Red It's Fusilli!

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I am " Cooking Red To Remember " today. Because today is World AIDS Day . Angela at SpinachTiger organized this as a way to remember that AIDS is not over. Not by a long shot.[...]

Market Matters- Full Fava Flava Risotto

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It's the first Sunday in Spring. Just thinking about it makes me feel happy and hopeful and alive.  I can be such a sentimetal sucker, I know? but It is days like today that[...]

Bewitching Cabbage and Carrot Turnovers

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Has this ever happened to you? You come across a blog. A cooking blog. You see a recipe that appeals to you on some unexplainable level. Naturally you leave a nice comment and then[...]

Market Matters: Melon-choly Summer's End

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I know you have enjoyed the classic pairing of prosciutto and melon. It?s sweet, it?s salty and it is about as good as summer gets! Well I could not let summer slip by with out[...]

Move Over Mozzarella, Burrata's in Town!

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I want to talk burrata today. Burrata is a soft Italian cheese. It comes in balls similar to mozzarella, but it has a soft interior that oozes around inside its cheesy casing. It is[...]

Sup! Loves Cookbooks: Rice Pasta Couscous

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Rice, pasta and couscous. All cultures feature some version of these starchy standards. I could make an argument that these foods are the backbone of a successful meal. But that[...]