Creamy Tuna Pasta
Creamy tuna pasta with no cream – check it out!
Chef Ludo’s Caviar Pasta
Make this posh caviar pasta dish without going broke.
Quick and Easy Lobster Pasta from Greek Tavernas
Try this easy to prepare and delicious lobster pasta recipe – made just like at the Greek seafood tavernas.
Tsouchti Pasta with an Egg on Top
A few years ago I visited the Mani region of the Peloponnese with it’s traditional Maniot towers, rugged terrain.
Pasta Shells with Sausage, Arugula, Cream Sauce
If you’re looking for a quick weeknight meal, pasta is a the answer. Specifically, this recipe contains sausage meat, some cream, baby arugula, cheese and of course the pasta.
Pasta With Smoked Salmon
RECIPE UPDATE: this recipe first appeared Aug. 8th, 2007 (14 years ago). I’ve simplified the recipe compared to the original. I was probably trying to be “cheffy” with an excessive amount of ingredients. The dish contains heavy cream and with such a forward ingredient as smoked salmon, I’ve omitted cheese. Years ago, back in my […]
Sea Urchin Pasta
This first time I saw sea urchins was in Halkidiki (where our family’s summer home is), clinging to rocks under the sea. Another sea urchin memory was eating them on the half-shell with a squeeze of lemon juice in Mykonos (summer ’92). Fast forward to 2009, first visit to Crete and I have a big […]
Poor Man’s Truffle Pasta
One of the “in fashion” ingredients (the past few years) are truffles. There are white and black truffles, foraged by truffle hunters who take along their trained dogs to sniffed out these culinary treasures, buried in the ground. In cooking, truffles are shaved on dishes and if you go to a fancy restaurant, it is […]
Pasta With Italian Sausage and Broccolini
It’s often said the best pasta dishes are the quickest ones and today’s offering underlines this truism. One pot and one skillet on the stovetop, the pot of water blanches broccolini then does double-duty with cooking the pasta in the same water. The skillet is where the sausage meat is browned, onions and garlic cooked […]
King Crab Pasta With Tomato and Ouzo Sauce
I love fish and seafood and it the summer months, I crave lighter dishes – foods that aren’t meat. Crab and lobster are rivals when it comes to gaining the attention of seafood lovers but if we’re talking about King Crab, they win “claws down”! This dish makes use of frozen crab legs, which is […]