Tag Archives: white wine

Iberian Tomato Sauce

Check out this sauce! It comes together in next to no time, and, trust me on this, even if you do not care for Spanish olives, I think that you will be pretty darned in favor of them in this … Continue reading

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Pressure Cooker Risotto With Pork

If you have a multi-pot, risotto is a pretty terrific, really easy, and pretty fast dinner option for most any day. I had some leftover marinated pork ends, stock, and shredded cheese that I turned into this tasty plate of … Continue reading

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Seared Cod With Mussels and Red Pepper Aioli Sauce

So. Yesterday, we made a truly fine Aioli, and that fine little jar is resting in the fridge. Today, thanks to the nice folk and Food & Wine, we are going to use the entire fine jar to make this, … Continue reading

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Chicken Scarpariello

I first went searching for a version of this recipe after the main characters in a novel I was reading at the time paused from the murder and mayhem to enjoy a takeaway chicken dinner. Literally “shoemaker’s chicken,” this comes … Continue reading

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Shrimp Fricassee!

Idunno, it just seems that any food ending with Fricassee needs a bang (!) at the end. And, in truth, this dish deserves that bit of advertising agency language excitement. First things first, back in the 1970’s the newspaper in … Continue reading

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Coquilles Saint-Jacques

The first time I had Coquilles Saint-Jacques was at a cool (supposedly mob-owned) French restaurant, with my friend Debbi. The last time I had Coquilles Saint-Jacques, my friend Diane made it, and served it in scallop shells (the ‘coquille’) with … Continue reading

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Baked Jalapeño Cheddar Risotto

Wait. What? Baked Risotto? Yep. In all its rich and creamy goodness; just with way less stirring. In truth, I featured a version of this recipe with a cranberry white Cheddar earlier this year, and we quite liked it; but … Continue reading

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This Sauce, Though…

First, I made a tasty batch of Iberian Meatballs – a blend of ground pork and Portuguese garlic sausage and other tasty things, sweety darlings. Then, I made the sauce. It is hard to describe how such a simple blending … Continue reading

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Cheatin’ Cheese Fondue

So, thanks to our Canadian cousins, I am now hopelessly in love with fondue. I went on Amazon and dropped a bit of cash for this pretty terrific ceramic pot. And the stand and burner. And the fondue forks. All … Continue reading

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Parfait! Pressure Cooker Whole Chicken

This Parfait! recipe, to me, perfectly illustrates this week’s Food For Thought quote from the most esteemed Douglas Adams in, that, in my mebbe not so humble opinion, this is the way chicken should be done. And possibly duck, too. … Continue reading

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