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Italian Recipes

Kimchi Pasta Recipe

February 2, 2010
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In our household, when I’m feeling lazy, or the refrigerator is running low on fresh ingredients, we invariably turn to pasta to ease our minds and fill our bellies. There’s nothing fancy about pasta, but it provides a blank canvas onto which you can unleash your creativity and pantry staples. As a matter of fact, [...]

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Pappa Al Pomodoro

January 12, 2010
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Pappa al Pomodoro is a rustic tomato and bread dish that’s half-way between a soup and a porridge. It’s best made with vermillion hued, plump skinned tomatoes, birthed under the Tuscan sun, but it’s also the kind of soul warming meal you crave after trudging home from work on a frigid winter day. A paradox, [...]

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Pasta con la Bottarga e Wasabi

July 6, 2009
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Pasta con la Bottarga is about as simple as pastas get, consisting of pasta (usually spaghetti), grated bottarga and olive oil. Yet for such a meager amount of effort, you’ll be treated to a decadent pasta roaring with umami and flavours of the sea. In this version, I’ve added some freshly grated wasabi to [...]

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Pasta Carbonara

June 14, 2009
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Pasta alla Carbonara is one of my favourite fall-back meals when there is nothing else to cook. All you really need is some dried pasta, cured pork, cheese and an egg to pull off a delightfully rich and satisfying meal. In Japan, パスタ　カルボナラ has become a staple of corner cafes and can even be found [...]

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Ramp and Scallop Linguine

May 18, 2009
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Linguine tossed with olive oil, ramps and scallops.
Sometimes I feel like I blather on far too much about myself in the midst of telling you about my food adventures. Still, some of you have expressed an interest in learning even more about me and what makes me tick.
I’m not one for navel-gazing, and can’t [...]

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Red Bean Pudding with Blueberry Sauce

May 11, 2009
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This vegan “panna cotta” was inspired by a recent dinner at Kajitsu, a new Japanese restaurant here in NYC that specializes in shojin ryori. It’s a style of cooking developed by buddhist monks that uses no meat or fish.
As you step down into the restaurant, the pace of life seems to slow down before [...]

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Lemon Tarragon Polpette

May 2, 2009
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Lemon tarragon polpette with caramelize tomato glaze
I spent the first three days of this week in the kitchen preparing for a 75 person cocktail party I catered on Wednesday. It’s the first time I’ve ever done anything on that scale, and to be honest, it was a bit daunting. It all ended up working out [...]

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Pasta Fazool

March 28, 2009
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“When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie… That’s amore“. This 50’s era hit is one of my favourite songs when doing karaoke. I always manage to get a good laugh out of my audience belting out this Italian American classic at the top of my lungs. I’ve always told myself they [...]

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