One of my favorite things about living abroad was the visiting the farmers’ markets for fresh, garden-grown fruits and veggies (and baguettes, and cheese and the list goes on…). The French were especially strong in this area, with markets in each neighborhood on practically every day of the week. I’d walk to each one, but […]
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Who better to teach us how to make pasta than the Italians? This was something I’d been dying to do since we had arrived. I even looked into enrolling in cooking school for visa purposes when we were getting ready to move here. But all of the schools were not cheap. As I was reading […]
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Since Italy has such a wide range of cuisines, varying by region, I’ve decided that cooking my way through the country is the best way to discover them all. This week, I’m bringing Emilia Romagna to my kitchen. For a look at some of the other regions I’ve explored, read more in the series. Emilia […]
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Last week, I decided to cook my way through Italy and explore the various regional cuisines of the country. This is the first of my attempts, focused on the region of Friuli Venezia Guilia. A few weeks ago, Dave and I went out to dinner at a small osteria down the street and I had […]
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As someone who enjoys cooking, I’m always looking for some new recipes to try and bonus if they are Italian, in the sense that I can find the necessary ingredients here. A few months ago, I came across this blog post titled, There’s No Such Thing As Italian Food and I was intrigued. Living in […]
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I’ve been a bit ambitious in the kitchen the past two days, mostly because I’ve been craving for some culinary comforts of home— but also because ever since I got my new sous chef iPad, I am constantly using it to look up recipes for our dinners, then using it as a cookbook come meal […]
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So the New Year came and went and January seems to have gone with it. I didn’t get my act together for New Year’s resolutions, but I did adopt a new strategy in my (tiny) kitchen that should make for some interesting future posts, so I’m going to count that. Read on… Here’s the thing. […]
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For those of you living under a rock, Sunday was the Super Bowl and I decided it was a fine time to break in my new television. Best Buy was having a sale and I had Christmas money and gift cards burning a hole in my pocket so I’m the proud owner of a 60-inch […]
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