Archive for the ‘italy’ Category
Monte Bianco
03Dec09
Monte Bianco is simple, but best if you plan out ahead before dinner.
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Tags: amazing, chestnuts, leopard, montblanc, semifreddo, whippedcream
Made fried pizza and butternut squash soup.
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Tags: easy, elizabethdavid, fried, pizza
How not to make ravioli
04Nov09
Finally got Sophia Loren’s book, very nice, interesting stuff that I’ve not already seen in Hazan. And it’s fun to read, anecdotes, funny things and a lot of reveries. Some deep pontificating on the value of family meals etc. Anyway there’s a photo of her making fresh pasta, and so I just randomly jumped up […]
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Tags: ravioli, ricotta, tip, tomato
Bread and Muffins and Valrhona
02Feb09
Making bread is one the simple, cheap, and fast pleasures of cooking. I made my first breads — focacce — out of Dunaway’s great book No Need to Knead. I chose that book because I wanted to learn to make Italian bread — the title make it look easy and fast. And its true, you […]
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Fast Cheap and Easy 