May 2006 Archive
Cacao & Zucchini Absorption PastaLaurie Colwin's Home Cooking
Macadamia Maple Granola
Parmesan by the Hunk
When your sister gives you lemons
May 28, 2006
Cacao & Zucchini Absorption Pasta
Chose promise, chose due*, here is my take on absorption pasta, or risotto-style pasta. The idea of this technique is to coat the pasta with a little olive oil, add just enough liquids to cover, and cook until desired tenderness. According to Virka -- who read it in the Italian paper La Reppublica so it simply must be true -- this cooking techniq...
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May 22, 2006
Parmesan by the Hunk
Earlier this year, I received an email from an Italian blogger named Massimo, who announced to me that C&Z had been voted Best Non-Italian Food Blog in the awards he'd been hosting on his website, Peperosso* -- I'm sure that having an Italian word in the name of my blog helped. And since Massimo puts his mangoes where his mouth is (Lost, season 2...
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May 15, 2006
Macadamia Maple Granola
When I was little, I had long and exclusive relationships with my breakfast menus. For years on end a particular food item was all I would have in the morning, until suddenly and without warning, a new monomania came to replace it. The earliest phase I remember involved pain de mie (white sandwich bread) and Nutella. Two slices of bread would be...
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May 8, 2006
Laurie Colwin's Home Cooking
I have a special bookshelf where I keep the books I plan to read. Some of them I've bought myself, and some of them I've borrowed, mostly from my mother or from my neighbor Patricia. At latest count -- let me get up from the couch and count them for you -- there are thirty-two books there. As you will infer, I am a bit of an unread-book hoarder, ...
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May 1, 2006
When your sister gives you lemons
...make almond lemon curd. I like it when I can count the degrees of separation between an ingredient and myself, especially when I only need the fingers of one hand to do so. In this case, there were just four degrees of separation between me and three large lemons: my sister Céline has a boyfriend I adore, named Christian. Christian has a fath...
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