Penne With Five Cheeses
Okay, I might have been a little hard on the Mrs….Mrs. Ina Garten that is, but she does still have some gems and this particular pasta dish was first tested and tasted 2 years ago in Greece. It was a cool evening and we had family over and it was one of my few chances […]
Seared Salmon on Baby Spinach
This next dish is a popular one from Epicurious and it’s one I first tried with my ex. If you take a look at the recipe, there are 12 pages of comments (mostly positive) made and 93% would make this dish again. Another interesting tidbit about this dish is that I’ve had about 3 friends […]
Hilopites With Feta Pesto
About a month ago whilst surfing the round-up of Weekend Herb Blogging, I paid particular attention to a Feta Pesto, made by Genie of the Inadertant Gardener. I bookmarked the recipe for future reference. Fast forward to last week and I bought a weekend edition of a Greek newspaper which included a food/cooking magazine in […]
Harvest Linguine With Clams
What’s another linguine and clam dish gonna hurt? I’ve seen many pasta dishes with seafood, some look delicious, some are so-so and others well….I’ll be nice! I usually do enjoy a lighter clam & pasta dish in the summer months but it’s the warmest October thus far in Toronto’s history of recording the weather. The […]
Al Fresco Thanksgiving?
It seems that global warming is in full throttle. Toronto only saw 28 cm. of rain for all of Septemeber, I’m currently wearing shorts, I might have to flick on the air conditioner this weekend and…it might well be warm enough to eat Thanksgiving Dinner outside! For those not Canadian, we celebrate (as do the […]
Grilled Pasta Salad
Did I mention I’m going to Greece soon? I have one more agonizing week until I fly off to my Mediterranean retreat. No phones, no clients, no traffic, no humidity…no stress. Has anyone seen the Italian-made movie called Mediterraneo? It’s about a boatload of Italian soldiers who are sent to the Greek island of Kastellorizo […]
Courgette Carbonarra
I recently caught an episode of Jamie Oliver’s Jamie At Home and he featured recipes using courgettes or zucchini. What struck me about this dish is that the taste matched it’s marvelous presentation. Local zucchini are in season and using green and yellow zucchini will brighten the look of this dish. I also found that […]
Poppy Seed Pappardelle
Here in Ontario, we have to buy our booze from a provincial monopoly of beer & liquor stores and that sucks! The freedom and the option to buy beer, wine and spirits should be allowed so that I may run to the corner store and pick up that bottle of wine or that case of […]
Spaghetti With Roasted Cherry Tomatoes & Basil
One of the things I like doing is having a look at what’s in the “reduced” produce section. One can sometimes find some good deals for a perfectly fine product…as long as you use it in a day or two. Yesterday I found some pints of cherry tomatoes and they were on sale for a […]
Spaghetti With Fresh Mussels, Parsley and Lemon
The internet and technology has made recipe collection much easier. I don’t have to keep mounds of magazines or recipe clippings around which also take up alot of space. However, to this day I still have a Bon Appetit issue from May 2002 titled “Islands of the Mediterranean”. It covers Europe and North Africa, talking […]