Sicilian-Style Stracotto – Recommended Wine Pairing
A while back Francesca posted the mouth-watering recipe for a Sicilian-style stracotto: it is finally time to find a good wine pairing for her dish. Based on its ingredients and preparation, we can...
View ArticlePasta alla Norma: Finding a Good Grocer is Like Finding a Good Friend
4 Servings I usually welcome the spring season by cooking pasta alla norma. The reason? Spring brings fresh tomatoes, which are key to the success of this dish. If I close my eyes and dig into my...
View ArticleSea Scallops with Olives and Potatoes – Recommended Wine Pairing
I am still slowly catching up with my overdue wine pairings… Today we will suggest a wine that pairs well with Francesca’s delicious recipe of sea scallops with olives and potatoes. Based on the...
View ArticleA Food Photography Primer
Over time, a few readers of this blog who seem to have been enjoying my food images have been asking that I write a post with a few pointers about food photography: today is the day for that. Bear in...
View ArticleTomato green beans and the need to spice my diet up
Spring is a synonym of many things to me. One of those things is… diet. Yup, spring coincides with the opening of my dieting season. My season usually lasts about three months. Why? Because at the end...
View ArticleAn easy-peasy treat: vanilla cream berries
2 Servings If you have been following our blog, you know by now that I do not have a sweet tooth. Thank goodness for me and my dieting resolution, Stefano does not either. This means that, unless I’m...
View ArticleThe artichoke quest and the marriage with saffron linguine
4 Servings Artichokes are my favorite vegetables. I would eat them from breakfast to dinner (sort of…)! When I moved to our neck of the woods, I started testing the quality of the local vegetables and...
View ArticleThe End of the Quest for Authentic Italian Food: Arthur Avenue
A few Saturdays ago, Francesca and I finally went to check out a place that had been on our minds for a while: famed Arthur Avenue in the Bronx, NY. Arthur Avenue is first and foremost an Avenue in the...
View ArticleIf I said fennel salad, what would you say?
2 Servings Believe it or not my refrigerator is empty most of the time. The reason is twofold. Firstly, my conversion to a culinary life is relatively recent. Five years ago, I could not care less...
View ArticleMint and zucchini tagliatelle: Italian beauty!
2 Servings Hello everyone! Let me thank a couple of people before I share this wonderful recipe with all of you. First: the photo setting. Do not get any fancy idea. The red roses are not from...
View ArticleRoasted Stuffed Tomatoes
Good morning everyone (well, at least it is still morning in this part of the world)! :-) Usually I’m not that happy in the morning (quite the opposite!) but today is a special day. For starters,...
View ArticleStuffed peppers and the misconception of a silly girl
Cooking and eating peppers is something relatively new in my house. The reason? Okay. I’m going to spit it out but please do not judge me too harshly. The ugly truth is that, when I was younger, I...
View ArticleSautéed Prawns and the Seafood Curse
2 Servings Since I set foot on Italian soil, I have been “chased” by seafood. Now, if you are a regular reader of F’sT, you know that I do not eat fish for the simple reason that I do not like the...
View ArticleWhen Kidlandia meets Foodlandia – Part 1: Chicken bits and potatoes
2 Servings How do we get our kids to eat right? This is a billion dollar question. Well, let me tell you what I think: the secret lies in the parents’ cooking skills. When it comes to food, Italian...
View ArticleWhen Kidlandia meets Foodlandia – Part 2: the Princess and the pea (& ham)
Peas… such a kid-friendly shape veggie and still I have yet to hear a kid say “I love peas!” Who can blame them after all? Have you noticed how these little green fellas are generally served to those...
View ArticleA Visit to the Greenwich Wine+Food Festival and CTbites Blogger Lounge
Last weekend Francesca and I had been kindly invited to visit the Greenwich 2013 Wine+Food Festival by Amy, the energetic Executive Editor of CTbites. CTbites is (in their own words) “a web-based...
View ArticleSaint Emilion Chronicles #3: les macarons et les cannelés
Hello everyone! This will be my contribution to our ongoing Saint Emilion series. This post is about food, so it naturally belongs to my expertise “department”. So, picture it: Saint Emilion, July...
View ArticleFrittata Primavera – Recommended Wine Pairing
Well, it has been quite a while since our last food pairing post, so time to catch up on things… Today we will pair Francesca’s frittata primavera with a proper wine. As we did in the past, we will...
View ArticleA haunting memory: apple and speck risotto
2 Servings Have you ever happened to go to a restaurant or a dinner party and eat something that “shocked” your taste buds so much (in a positive way, I mean) that the memory of that dish has been...
View ArticleWarming up: Broccoli soup
2 Servings Here we are again! Thanksgiving is just a couple of weeks away and there are so many things to do if you have the blessing/curse to wear the hostess’s apron! As most of you may know,...
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