Eggs in Purgatory or Eggs in Tomato Sauce is an easy dish to make for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. This is a rustic dish in which eggs are poached in a simple tomato (marinara) sauce seasoned with onions, garlic, and basil. For some reason unbeknownst to me, marinara sauce tastes …
Pasta with Anchovies and Toasted Bread Crumbs (muddica atturata) is one of the simplest pasta dishes to make in Sicilian cuisine. The seasoning sauce (olive oil, garlic, and anchovy) takes 2 minutes to cook. Dinner ready in 20 minutes or less (if you toast the bread crumbs ahead of time)! …
My girlfriend Alison, who is of Greek ancestry, sparked the idea for this recipe. She asked me if I had a roasted chicken recipe that was lemony and garlicky and had oregano in it. Sicilians and Greeks are brothers in common for their love of lemon, garlic, and oregano. I …
While visiting my daughters in the Washington, D.C. area, I made a trip to the local seafood market. Really fresh seafood is hard to come by in the mountains of North Carolina, where my husband and I spend our summers. I was instantly intoxicated by the variety of fish and …
HOW TO FINELY MINCE GARLIC Many of my recipes call for finely minced garlic. There are basically two popular methods for mincing garlic. Most people use a chef or Santoku knife and chop the garlic on a cutting board. Another method is to use a garlic press, which does not …
Biscotti means cookie in Italian. It is a generic term. I often hear people saying that they made biscotti or they ate biscotti. They leave me guessing as to what kind of cookie it is. I have to ask what flavor is it – almond, chocolate, or vanilla? One common characteristic of …
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