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Prepared Pasta Sauce ... WHY???
We like the spicy one, my sister prefers the simple Marinara, I keep Kalamata olives and capers and pancetta around, and often use with either...also frozen TJ artichoke hearts which I like to carmelize a bit....lots of...
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Chez Panisse--How's the food, really?
to cure pancetta, and a vinegar barrel too. Chez Panisse is not so much a restaurant. It is a relationship. It’s a web of paths formed over decades. Saying that it is dead, or that it leads, or that its hype misses the...
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Favorite cooking word or phrase?
this is all over the place and not necessarily cooking terms but: favorite pasta name: strozza preti (hanged priest) pan di spagna guanciale pancetta jamon iberico “red cook” or "hong shao" “zha de!” (deep fried...
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What do you cook to impress a new love interest?
i never cooked for new love interests/flings. cooking is either for customers, or for people i already have a serious relationship with. . . the first meal i cooked for dh was pot roast, i believe, with some roasted potatoes, and...
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Cholesterol be damned
be the signature note of a clam chowder. Pancetta would be better if you want to go that route. Cured, NOT smoked (whether real or fake). You see, many people actually DON’T want to taste the sea.... Now, when you get to...
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June 2009 COTM: ELIZABETH DAVID CLASSICS
French Country Cooking, and I hope I’m not getting too far ahead of the game by discussing it before June. The recipes are pleasantly vague. This one doesn’t call for salt or pepper, though they’re obviously...
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The 3 Grand Cuisines
Nothing fancy. I’m an amateur home cook. pasta/gnocchi dishes with different types of sauces (italian sausage, red sauce, pancetta sauce, clams/seafood, etc), chicken marsala/piccata, salads like caprese, roasted red...
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Was it just me...(TNFNS 7/13)
majorly bad internal ingregient and two weird garnishes. Hello? Mac and cheese? WTF? Apparently such “normal” thoughts as adding bacon or pancetta never even entered her pretty dome-haired head for a moment. Sorry,...
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Thomas W's 2006 Las VegasTrip Report. Includes Mon Ami Gabi, Delmonico, Bradley Ogden, Lotus of Siam and much more
sampler was overpriced at $17.95 for sweet potatoes, asparagus, beets, lentils. The onion soup for $8.95 was excellent, pepper steak was way better than I remembered and was accompanied by very good skinny frites resembling...
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DiFara's ripped by Rosengarten
House-Cured Pancetta, Soppressata and Coppa- $16 Robiola Bosina with Toasted Filone- $9 Potato Croquettes- $9 Escarole with Meyer Lemon and Parmigiano Reggiano- $11 Satsumas and Cara Caras with Hot Pepper and Bitetto Olive Salsa- $11
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KC Hound in NY- The Aftermath (loooong)
gras with sour cherries and other things I dont recall. I thought it was a pretty generous piece of foie. I had the monkfish with pancetta and red cabbage for my main. It was good, but the red cabbage with caraway seeds...
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San Diego Restaurant Week 2008
Had a fantastic meal at Market last night. It started with an amuse bouche of chili-glazed shrimp drizzled with ponzu and ginger sauce and topped with diced pineapple, peppers, and a little sprout of Japanese parsley. Really...
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Batali, Paltrow & Bittman in Spain...
and the saffron was used. The section with the burner on the path with his son, Javier, and Bittman and Basols was something very simple – migas (bread crumbles) Manchego style – with chorizo and pancetta, with whole...
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Cheating
stock and maybe some jarred peppers, etc., and bread (haven’t gotten there yet). I don’t think something “sucks” just because you’ve used a canned ingredient. My chosen dish for my birthday as a...
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A Wad & FOUR hours-- astonishing 20 course feast at Trio
was topped with shaved parmesan, the other with a slice of truffle, there were pancetta and favas involved as well, and explode was the right word. Spice Water: The other dish mentioned in every review along with its eating...
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