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The Monday treat – Fresh asparagus and butter lettuce salad with almonds and mozzarella
My husband and I are taking a gamble that there will be no more thunder snow, no more golf ball hail, no more ice in the watering can and frost on the windows, and have planted out some of the … Continue reading
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Tagged almonds, asparagus, butter lettuce, garden, lettuce, mozzarella, salad, spring, thunder snow, Union Square Farmer's Market, vegetarian
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This Dinner Will Get You Laid – Spaghetti Puttanesca
This pasta sauce is literally translated as tart’s or whore’s. The idea being, I believe, that only slovenly women would make a sauce entirely out of store cupboard ingredients. That said, there’s an alternate theory that says the sauce’s sharp … Continue reading
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Tagged garlic, olives, onion, tart, tomato, tomato sauce, vegetarian
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The Wednesday Tipple – Crispy mozzarella bites with tomato sauce
My sister and her boyfriend Matt are in town for the week, and we have been out on the terrace for drinks, and it didn’t feel like a punishment. This was an unexpected treat – when I spoke to her … Continue reading
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Tagged mozzarella balls, panko breadcrumbs, tomato, tomato sauce, vegetarian, wonton
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Minestrone Soup
Once you can make tomato sauce, you can make tomato soup – just add stock to the sauce, and a swirl of cream for added awesomeness. And from tomato soup it’s a tiny step to minestrone, which is a much … Continue reading
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Tagged chick peas, ditalini, minestrone, onion, parmesan, soup, stock, tomato, tomato sauce, vegetarian
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The Monday Treat – Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce
These are the kind of unpredictable spring days when meals are often called upon to satisfy diverse conditions. We want to eat something comforting and warming enough for unpredictable showery blustery weather, but fresh and sprightly enough for those evenings … Continue reading
The Wednesday Tipple – Guinness and Colcannon cakes
There are nights when a Guinness seems like a good idea. And there is nothing in the world that goes so well with a Guinness than colcannon cakes. Colcannon is a traditional Irish food – a mixture of mash potato … Continue reading
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Tagged cabbage, colcannon, guinness, parsley, poached egg, potato, scallion, st patrick's day, vegetarian
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The Monday Treat – Green Velvet Cakes in anticipation of St Patrick’s Day.
Probably as a response to valentine heart-shaped cookie cutter withdrawal, the green food coloring ended up in my basket, and by the time I’d unpacked the shopping my mind was racing with ways to use it in celebration of St … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, cake, chocolate, cupcake, green cupcake, st patrick's day, vegetarian
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The Wednesday Tipple – White Russian
It’s been a week characterized by coffee. Firstly because husband Jon, in an attempt to master the fancy espresso machine that was his Christmas present decided to sample many varieties of beans from the Porto Rico Importing Company on Bleeker … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, cake, coffee, coffee cake, espresso, hypergraphia, icing, kahlua, vegetarian, vodka
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