30 Jan
Here’s one of those elegant-yet-simple Pepin dishes from Essential Pepin. Toss together tomatoes, bread (torn or cubed up), garlic, parsley or thyme, salt, pepper, olive oil and parmesan cheese. Put in a gratin dish. Bake at 375 for 40 minutes. Garnish with some more parsley or thyme, but only if you feel like it. Serve. Try not to eat the whole thing in one sitting. I think I ate half in the kitchen before I served it.
Dusting off the ol’ blog to write about some things that I ate in Florence and around Tuscany last month. Or, 2 months ago. July 16th-20th, 2014. Michael and I were there for about 5 days at the end of July. Below are some of the highlights. Bear with me, because this is kind of long, and it’s kind of also the travel journal I was too lazy to keep up with while we were on the road.
Pernil takes a long time but it’s so, so worth it.
Make this simple syrup out of rhubarb for cocktails, mocktails, lemonade, whatever.
What do you do with ramps? As little as possible.
I received a press copy of How to Cook Everything: The Basics weeks ago, and I meant to write about it right away. But I found myself stymied. Because I think that what Bittman and his team may have unleashed upon us here is a book so good that it could replace the full edition. […]
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