Monday, May 31, 2010
Grilled Eggplant Salad and Burgers with Pickled Peppers
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Chickpea & Olive Bruschetta and Grilled Meatballs
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Fettuccine Primavera
I sauteed all the vegetables in butter and olive oil. I used fettuccine for the pasta and the sauce was from an epicurious recipe I printed out back in 2003. It is the only recipe you ever need for Fettuccine Alfredo. It was delicious and a nice change from our meat filled menu from the past couple of nights.
Visited my dad today and took some shots of the garden.
Friday, May 28, 2010
The Best Pork Sandwich Ever
OMG! I worked from home today and decided to try a recipe that required a lot of time in the oven. The Best Pork Sandwich Ever is just that. I found the recipe on the La Cucina magazine site, and all I can say is my house smelled so good today! Kramer was going nuts from the smell of the pork. And it required no work, other than some basting. We topped the sandwiches with spreadable Feta cheese and pepper relish. The sandwich was perfect. I think the photos say it all.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Kansas City Ribs and BBQ Tofu
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Dinner at Quattros
Monday, May 24, 2010
Vegetable and Bacon Frittatta
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Grilled Buffalo Chicken Sausage with Peppers and Onions
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Grilled Pork Sirloin Cutlets & Watercress Salad With Beets and Goat Cheese
The Marinade-
1 Bunch Scallions
1/3 cup Dijon mustard
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup bourbon whiskey
Process all ingredients in a food processor or blender until thoroughly combined. The marinade can be stored in a covered jar in the refrigerator for 3 days.
For side dishes I made Mashed Potatoes and Watercress Salad With Beets and Goat Cheese from RealSimple.com. The recipe on the site called for Feta but I had Goat Cheese. I made the Lemon Shallot dressing. Loved it!
I also took the new oven out for a test run. Again from RealSimple.com I made Chocolate Chip Pecan Blondies. Wow. I will be making these again and again. I even think my 2 cookie fans in Maryland might like these.
Then I found a cookie recipe from my Aunt Nora. She passed away in 2003 and at her wake there were copies of the recipes she was best know for. This was was one of them.
Aunty Nora's Twist Cookies
5 cups of flour
2 sticks of margarine
1 cup milk
2 eggs
5 tsp. baking powder
Jam (I used blackberry and vanilla jam)
Cinnamon
Coconut
Confectionery Sugar
First, roll out the dough and spread the jam.
Add cinnamon and coconut. Then cut dough in three's. Bend in half. Twist and put them on a cookie sheet (lined with parchment paper) and bake at 350 for about 20 minutes. Let cool. Dust with confectionery sugar.
Pour the coffee and let's eat.
It took a couple of readings of the recipe to figure out what she meant by cutting the dough in three's. But I just did what I thought looked right. There are a few more of her recipes I will be trying. The one recipe we did not get from her was for her Stuffed Razor Clams. I think it was just bread crumbs and herbs but boy were they good.
Friday, May 21, 2010
Sole with Peppers
Ingredients
1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil
1 medium onion, thinly sliced
2 garlic cloves, minced (I cut one clove in half so I could remove it before serving)
3/4 lb. sweet peppers, cored, seeded and minced
1 2/3 cups chopped fresh plum tomatoes (I used a can of plum tomatoes)
2 lbs. sole, cleaned, rinsed and dried
Salt
Heat the olive oil in a pan and cook the onions and garlic until they take on color, then add the peppers and tomatoes
Cook at low heat for 15 minutes, then add the sole.
Add salt to taste, cover the pan, and cook at low heat, shaking the pan from time to time.
And I was asked to join the Top 100 Italian Cooking Websites! Pretty cool. Mom would be pleased. I have a link to their site on the side of the blog. I feel very proud to have been invited!
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Broccoli Rabe with Sausage and Polenta
Monday, May 17, 2010
Quinoa and Goat Cheese Salad and the First Hamburger of the Year!
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Griddled Polenta Cakes with Caramelized Onions, Goat Cheese, and Honey
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Grilled Rib Eye Steaks with Blue Cheese Crusted Tomatoes
Friday, May 14, 2010
Eggplant Pizza
Tonight we had the eggplant, my favorite, and the special which has red and green peppers, onions, mozzarella, pepperoni, meatballs and sausage. So good...
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Chicken Cutlets with Zucchini Spears and Rice
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
A Pile of Eggs &
Let this be a lesson to all of you, never put plastic in the oven, even if you think it will only be for a few minutes... Someone is coming over Thursday to see what can be done to fix the stove...
Monday, May 10, 2010
Beans in Sauce
Ingredients
1 lb. fresh shelled beans
1/2 lb green beans, tips cut off
5 tbsp. olive oil
2 gloves garlic, crushed
1 1/2 cups tomato puree
5 basil leaves
1 small bunch flat-leaf parsley, chopped
several celery stalks, chopped
1 dried chili pepper
slices of peasant-style bread, toasted
Method
Boil the beans in a large pot of water to cover by a couple of inches until tender, about 15 minutes. Add the green beans after 10 minutes.
Meanwhile heat the olive oil and add the garlic, tomato puree, basil, parsley, celery and chili pepper. Cook until just blended.
Transfer the beans to bowl, pour the sauce over and toss to mix. Let stand 30 minutes so the flavors can blend. Serve on toasted slices of peasant-style bread.
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Ricotta Cavatelli
First off this will be a week of stove top meals. Enough on that subject.
Tonight's dinner came about when I saw last Wednesday's New Haven Register and there was an article by Claire Criscuolo about a woman named Josephine Signore. Click here to read the story. Josephine Signore is my mom's cousin. In the article she says the Cavatelli recipe is from her mother which means that it is from my great grandmother! So for Mother's Day I made my great grandmother's Cavatelli recipe. Very cool. I even have my mom's Cavatelli machine. I was amazed how easy they were to make. And the taste, well lets just say it is obvious why this recipe is still around.



Happy Mother's Day
Tonight's dinner came about when I saw last Wednesday's New Haven Register and there was an article by Claire Criscuolo about a woman named Josephine Signore. Click here to read the story. Josephine Signore is my mom's cousin. In the article she says the Cavatelli recipe is from her mother which means that it is from my great grandmother! So for Mother's Day I made my great grandmother's Cavatelli recipe. Very cool. I even have my mom's Cavatelli machine. I was amazed how easy they were to make. And the taste, well lets just say it is obvious why this recipe is still around.
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