At least once a month my apartment fills with the delicious aroma of sautéed onions and garlic. You can bet that one of those aroma-filled days is a sauce-making day. It’s become a monthly tradition to make a giant pot of marinara to last for the upcoming few weeks. Freeze, thaw and create. The marinara [...]
Last weekend, my beau attempted some Giada cooking. He’s kind of in love with her, and who could blame her? She’s beautiful, Italian, and knows how to cook. Plus, she’s short and sweet like me.
He made her Linguine with Shrimp and Lemon Oil using whole wheat pasta. It was fabulous! [...]
Warning: These are in no way shape or form healthy. But, they are awesome. And amazing. And fabulous.
Mark decided that instead of pizza, that we’d do something a bit different and make calzones.
Holy lord look at those fillings … soooo yummy!
I [...]
After Mark’s trek to the Des Moines Farmers Market last week, he came up with an amazingly awesome idea for dinner. He’d picked up a batch of garlic focaccia bread (and I wish I knew where he bought it from, because I’d love to credit them — not to mention, get MORE). I had some [...]
Mark was challenged last weekend. The task: make dinner without going to the grocery store. He could only use what I had in the apartment.
Could he do it?
Was there really any question? This kid knows his stuff. He pulled through. And in a fancy way.
I’m not including a [...]
Hey all!
My boy likes to cook and I thought it’d be a cool feature to share his creations (with instructions) once or twice a month.
I shall call this segment: Wonder Bread Italian Boy Cooks.
For those of you who don’t get that, my boy is about as Italian as white bread. Wonder bread [...]
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