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Linguine With Tapenade

Jul 24th, 2008 | By

Here’s another dish from that little gem of a book on olives called“Cooking With Olives and Their Oils”. This gleaming black sauce resembles a caviar, don’t it? The French have a habit of giving a rustic dish a chi-chi-frou-frou name and then charging an extra 4 euros for the dish! How much would you pay [...]



French Onion Soup Gratinee

Nov 14th, 2007 | By

This soup made me cry. That’s right…it brought me to tears. I had to cut 10 small onions which equaled the recipe’s requisite 3 large onions. I now know why bags of small onions are less expensive. Buy large onions. I’ve been doing lots of soups of late but hey, it’s soup season and even [...]



Pizza Quatro Gusti

Oct 13th, 2007 | By

Over the summer, I caught an episode of Jamie Oliver’s Jamie at Home and he did a piece on pizza. As many know, pizza in Italy is far different from how it’s presented in the rest of the world. He showed a really neat idea, which was to make a rectangular pizza that would like [...]