I have been M.I.A. since April 2016. Long story short, I wasn’t feeling well. I had joint and muscle pain, brain fog, migraines and other undesirable discomforts. I was perpetually…
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A couple of days ago I made Polenta with Mushrooms and doubled the polenta portion of the recipe. I wanted to have plenty of leftovers. Sometimes it’s hard to figure out what to do with leftover polenta.…
This past week, it was frigid in the Northeast. Just when we think Spring is around the corner we get blasted with cold weather. I wanted to prepare a comfort food but not another…
Every week, my husband saves the Food section of the New York Times for me. I had a few weeks worth piled up and in the January 20, 2016 edition, I came across Martha…
For 5 days, a 4-ounce block of leftover feta stared me in the face every time I opened the refrigerator door. I could have crumbled it up in a salad…
I don’t love meatballs. They are usually either too dense or too mushy or too large but most notably, not flavorful. When my son was three years old, I was running out of…
There are two food items that I love but am particularly fussy about: eggs and pasta. My requirements are that eggs must be soft-cooked or soft-boiled and that pasta must be…
When I was growing up, pasta with meat sauce consisted of browning and draining the fat off ground beef and adding a jar of Prego or Old World Style Ragù sauce. However, Mario Batali’s Tarry…
When I was young, I skied every winter weekend (and often during the week after school). Whenever I headed to the lodge for lunch, I enjoyed a bowl of chili topped with…
Following up on my Italian Wedding Soup post, here is another simple and delicious recipe for an Italian soup called Pasta e Fagioli. I first tasted this soup after moving to the suburbs in 2005. There was a…
