Brace yourselves: I’m going to give you a recipe for gnocchi. Gnocchi that’s not only light and delicious and flavorful, but also super easy to make. Your mind is blown, right? Well, mine was. Not so long ago, when I thought gnocchi, I thought of …
Where I live, people are pretty opinionated about their Italian beef, so just to be clear, here is what I like in a good Italian beef sandwich: I like my beef very tender, to the point of falling apart. I’m not into the sliced pieces, …
A funny thing starts to happen when you’ve been writing a food blog for a while. You’re always wanting to share the new interesting thing that you tried- something other people will find exciting, too. But in doing that, I realize that I start forgetting …
For a long time, if you asked me what my absolute favorite meal was, I would reply, “Grilled cheese and tomato soup,” without any hesitation. Now, I have always loved a grilled cheese and still do, with a passion, in fact. But over the years, …
It’s been a particularly frigid winter in the Chicago area, with lots of days spent inside drinking tea and dreaming of summer. A frequently recurring daydream around here involves the smell of burgers on the grill with a cold beer in hand, lounging around in …
Happy New Year! I hope that 2013 was a fabulous year for you, and that 2014 will be even better. Once again, I am entering the new year unencumbered by resolutions, which has become my own kind of tradition, I suppose. Sure, there are projects …
I’m going to apologize in advance. This would have been a better post to share in May, when there was a whole season of burger and hot dog eating ahead of us. But at least I got it in before the mother of all backyard-barbecue …
This post will be a quick one. Because this is a quick salad. The kind you throw together to bring to a BBQ or you make on a Sunday night for a week of lunches. It’s easy. It’s tasty. It has wheat berries in it.
This recipe comes with a pretty serious warning: once you start making your own pizza dough and keeping it handy in the freezer… you will not. stop. making. pizza. For a long time, I thought pizza was one of those things best left to the …