Paper Bag

Μακαρονάδα-με-θαλασσινά

May 29th, 2008 | By

Today, I’m not even offering up a translation of the title in English. The photos speak for themselves. What you have here is the essence of where I spend my vacations in Greece…Halkidiki. This pasta is an ode to the summer…summers in Greece, summer in the Mediterranean…summer anywhere you may be spending it this year. [...]



Cooking With………A Stapler?

Jan 15th, 2008 | By

You know what this blog needs? Is more brown paper bags! I’ve enjoyed baking fish in a brown paper bag and I’m satisfied that there are no health risks to using them for cooking purposes. Let me assure you that brown paper lunch bags are not made of recycled paper, the cooking time (2.5 minutes) [...]



Brown Bagging for Dinner

Dec 12th, 2007 | By

The French have a knack for making something very simple to sound “chi-chi-frou-frou” and charging a helluva’lot for it. I can be frugal. Tonight’s dinner was “en papillote” but I ran out of parchment paper. “En papillote” simply means “in paper”. I’ve seen many dishes that are tucked into little packages of foil, parchment, pastry [...]