Archive for the 'new food' Category
Simple Spaghetti
January 16th, 2009by Lisa This recipe is easily one of my favorite recipes for spaghetti. It’s quick, simple, and can be made with what you likely have in your pantry on any given day of the year. The blend of garlic, anchovies, a good olive oil, and tomato paste creates a rich, garlicky, slightly nutty sauce that [...]
Kale Crisps
January 13th, 2009by Caroline “I put kale on his plate and put kale on his plate and put kale on his plate, and my son tried it and grimaced and we praised him for trying it and pages flew off the calendar and his beard grew down to the floor, and then one day he ate it [...]
Some traditions really are just for grown-ups
January 6th, 2009by Lisa A few weeks before Christmas, I found a recipe for caffe con correto con panna in La Cucina Italiana, one of my favorite food magazines. Basically, this translates to liquor-spiked coffee with chocolate and sweetened cream. I bought a bottle of Frangelico, which I had hitherto assumed was for people who liked drinks [...]
Christmas Eve, A Backwards Glance
January 6th, 2009by Lisa I’m not sure how or why our tradition of fish on Christmas Eve began, but its roots stretch back to my childhood, when we celebrated with close friends. When it was my mother’s turn to host, she very often made a really delicious shrimp and rigatoni dish, accented with tomatoes and feta cheese. [...]
The Great Pumpkin
December 9th, 2008by Lisa Halloween and Thanksgiving are long past, but today, some beast grabbed me and urged me to cut into the Galeux d’Eysines pumpkin I purchased in October. It was a gorgeous pale pink, and covered in sugar warts. It was gnarly, ugly and completely fascinating. It was easy to cut, as far as pumpkins [...]
Peppers, The Prequel
November 7th, 2008By Lisa The padrone-eating incident (now updated with pictures) was not without precedent. One of our family staples, especially when it’s high pepper season, is dish of roasted red peppers bathed in olive oil, with capers, garlic, and anchovies. Before you stop reading at “anchovy,” please consider this: a mysterious alchemy occurs when the peppers [...]
Some Like ‘em Hot, a Pepper Conundrum
November 6th, 2008By Lisa Most of the time, we want our kids to eat what we eat, right? And most of the time, we work really hard to get them to eat what we put on the table, right? It’s been our general philosophy that the kids eat what we eat. End of story. In our home, [...]
What We Found at Home
September 9th, 2008posted by Caroline I didn’t know what to expect when we got home from France. Usually we leave the house empty for a week or so, and a friend often thoughtfully stocks our fridge with milk and bread and eggs, maybe some fresh fruit, for our return. But this time, we were gone much longer [...]
Unfamiliar Waters
August 25th, 2008posted by Caroline After a week in Paris, we headed south for a week unlike any we’d ever experienced (or likely will again). To celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary, my parents gathered our family on a barge that toured rivers and canals in the south of France. We were the only passengers, cared for by [...]
Yes, We have no banana blooms…
August 19th, 2008posted by Lisa …a story in pictures about desire lost and found. Week 2 at the Koloa Sunshine Market, we came for the regular things: greens, radishes, mountain spinach, tomatoes, fiddlehead ferns, mountain apples, and a back breaking assortment of mangoes, papayas, pineapples, passion fruit, apple bananas. Everything was rough and beautiful as always, and [...]