Pesto really might be my favorite pasta sauce regardless of the time of year, and ramp pesto is my favorite iteration of that sauce because it’s something I can usually only enjoy once per year, and therefore I need to make it count. I made my ramp pesto last this year–making ramp butter and pickled…
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Tomato-flavored lasagnette all’amatriciana.
April was kind of a strange month. It started out great–we were finishing up our week in Mexico City–and a week later we were getting ready for the Easter holiday weekend that we’d be spending in PA. I was a bit jet-lagged because I didn’t sleep great during our trip, and I blame that on…
10.08.14: dinner (Lorraine Pascale’s pan-seared mascarpone gnocchi)
For years, my normal weekend morning ritual has been parking myself on the couch and watching cooking shows while I figured out what we were making that night for dinner. There were shows I loved, those I tolerated, and others I would either tune out or treat as open season for my snarking. As the…
9.27.14: dinner (the first pizza night in far too long)
One thing I was hoping we’d be able to do following our vacation was to make one last jaunt to our local beach, and thankfully this past weekend gave us two picture-perfect days to choose from. While everyone else in New England descended upon their favorite orchard in which to go apple picking (or so…
Recipe rehash: on embracing ramp season.
A few months ago when we were in the throes of absolutely miserable weather, I had this feeling that ramp season would be embraced even more fervently than before, if only because it was definitive proof that spring was finally here and the long tyranny of this winter had come to an end. There had…
05.08.11: dinner (pericatelli all’amatriciana and an announcement)
There are boxes in our apartment. Most of them are folded up for now, but only because Michael has misplaced the packing tape he brought home a few days ago. You know what that means.
04.03.11: dinner (white clam and leek-prosciutto pizzas)
How on earth are you supposed to follow up a five-course meal featuring fifteen dishes (plus appetizers!) with a homemade meal? Are you even supposed to eat? To be honest, I wasn’t expecting to be all that hungry come Sunday–and neither was Michael–so we didn’t put all that much thought into dinner plans. But we…
11.07.10: dinner (spaghetti and roasted peppers FTW…almost).
Michael likes to rile me up any way he can (and I respond in kind by calling him Wrong-Way-M60 because last winter he hopped off the train and got on a M60 that took him to LaGuardia instead of home), and one of his more recent tactics to stir up my (completely not-serious) ire…
10.03.10: anniversary dinner (from Torino to the countryside of Piemonte in one meal, part one).
Today marks our second wedding anniversary, so we spent this past weekend celebrating it in the best way we know how: through food. Saturday’s dinner was a bit of an epic meal (so much that we both feel compelled to write about it), but last night I wanted to give a nod to where we…
The Manhattan [food] Project 