life throws us challenges. some bigger than others, no doubt. in this instance the ny jew is presented with a huge and perfect bunch of turnip greens. now i’ve never met a vegetable i didn’t like. sometimes love might be too strong of a word (green bell peppers, i’m looking at you), but still i’m a big [...]
Entries from October 2007
southern stuffed squash
October 14th, 2007 · 7 Comments
Tags: bacon · vegetables
zucchini soup
October 13th, 2007 · 5 Comments
it was a quick ‘let’s have lunch’ decision. and i thought perfect. zucchini pear soup - a bittman recipe that sounded intriguing from last week’s dining section in the ny times. and then i immediately thought imperfect. no pears. damnit. i had just bought pears but now they were gone. i had honeycrisps but that wasn’t going to cut it. so [...]
Tags: soup · vegetables
bottarga spaghetti
October 11th, 2007 · 14 Comments
pasta again? i know. i need an intervention. or not. so i heard of bottarga one day, and then i heard of it again. and then i bought some from zingerman’s in a dried powder form where it is somewhat unfairly billed as ‘caviar for pasta lovers’. you can see how i might have gotten [...]
Tags: pasta
bittman’s tomato paella – getting in under the wire…
October 9th, 2007 · 9 Comments
dear mark, the tomato paella was friggin genius p.s. i love you bittman is my kind of cook. he’s the minimalist. he’s the anti-keller… i saw this in the wednesday dining section of the ny times, 5 weeks ago. then it started making the blog rounds but luisa’s version looked so alluring that i knew [...]
FRET 5
October 5th, 2007 · 9 Comments
(lardo di colonnata from tuscany) i try to keep these FRET’s to a minimum but the truth is that if you knew how much of my life this fretting thing consumes you’d probably find me to be kinda screwed up and possibly wouldn’t like me anymore. assuming of course, you ever liked me at all. i’m one [...]
red carbonara
October 4th, 2007 · 7 Comments
so here’s a fact. when a dish calls for white wine and you’re too lazy to go and get a bottle, especially when you’ve just uncorked a nice red… don’t think you can substitute one for the other. because you can’t. it pretty much blew it for me. the carbonara was a straight forward version. onion, pancetta, [...]
ombi restaurant – nashville, tn
October 2nd, 2007 · 18 Comments
i never do this… talk about nashville restaurants out there in cyberworld really ever but this was truly outstanding here, in my nashville finally… enter: laura wilson and kim totkze from ‘ombi restaurant‘ on elliston place. are you kneeling? because if you’re a foodie in this town - you sure as hell should be now when [...]
Tags: local
