Recipe: Blood Orange Salad with Prosecco Anise Syrup I believe my father’s relationship to the family kitchen was typical for an Italian man. There seem to be three ways Italian men, and I include Italian-Americans, involve themselves in the creation of family meals: They take over the entire dinner preparation in a intense, chef-like manner, [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Blood Oranges for New Year’s Eve
Posted in Skinny Guinea on December 29, 2008 | 7 Comments »
An Orange Flower Aperitivo for Christmas Day
Posted in Skinny Guinea on December 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Recipes: Orange Flower Aperitivo Orange Olivata Crostini For me the aroma of orange has always been linked to Christmas. My father’s golf pro buddies would show up at my childhood home for holiday whisky sours, one of them inevitably bearing a little crate of highly waxed tangerines that, as the evening wore on, got opened [...]
Lasagna for Christmas Eve
Posted in Uncategorized on December 17, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Recipe: Lasagna with Basil Walnut Pesto and Besciamella When I was a junior high school student on Long Island many centuries ago, there still existed a class called home ec, something all the girls had to take, a requirement that by then no one took very seriously. I believe I took it the last year [...]
String Beans with Christmas Color
Posted in Skinny Guinea on December 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Red and green through the eyes of Caravaggio. Recipe: String Bean Salad with Tomatoes, Savory, and Toasted Walnuts During Christmas season I inevitably find myself making a lot of red and green foods. As farty as that sounds, I can’t help it. I like to color-coordinate dishes. I’ve made all-yellow meals in summer, and all-green [...]
Trout Saltimbocca
Posted in Skinny Guinea on December 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Recipe: Trout with Prosciutto, Sage, and Lemon I have to admit to myself that the road to weight control and good health is pretty obvious. For starters, cut down on refined carbs and saturated fats. That leaves vegetables and fish. I love seafood of all kinds, but if I fail to put a little creativity [...]
Lamb Meatballs Cure a Winter Cold
Posted in Skinny Guinea on December 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Recipe: Lamb and Ricotta Salata Meatballs on Tomato Arugula Soup A few days after Thanksgiving I came down with a head-swelling cold. I expected it to keep me in bed for at least a day, but no, this cold made me fidgety and sick but still up and wandering the cold streets. It put me [...]
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