Lobster with tomatoes, cognac, and spaghetti.
Recipes:
Lobster with Tomatoes, Cognac, and Spaghetti
Slow-Cooked Duck with Green Olive Sauce
In the coldest part of every year I pull from my shelf James Villas’s l992 book The French Country Kitchen. I love this book both for what it is as for what it isn’t. What it isn’t is my kind of cooking. It’s eggy and buttery, full of duck fat and sausages. What it is is, among other things, a reminder to cook with turnips and cabbages and apples, things that don’t automatically run through my Italian-American mind. Winter is when my usual array of Mediterranean vegetables and herbs fails me, and this book is there for inspiration. (more…)
Erica De Mane 