By Nick • February 22, 2010
When Snowmageddon hit, Betsy and I were holed up for many days with not much to do except watch bad movies and play Scrabble. One night I wanted to cook something that would be very soothing and warming and also be great for leftovers for the next few days.
Mac and cheese was the first thing [...]
Posted in Dinner, good food, Side dishes | Tagged baked fusilli, baked pasta, cheddar, cheddar cheeses, cheese, cheese sauce, cheesy fusilli, food and drink, fusili, fusilli, fusilli pasta, mozarrella, mozzarella cheeses, parmesan cheeses, pasta, roux, sauce
By Nick • February 1, 2010
Believe it or not, I’m a huge believer that sometimes the simplest dishes are the best. A simple pizza, good chicken broth, and heck even well-cooked rice can be some of the best eats I know. That said, it’s very apparent to me that sometimes even those simple dishes can take longer than most people [...]
Posted in Dinner, Easy Stuff, Learning to Cook, pasta, pork | Tagged bacon, bowtie pasta, carbonara, eggs, how to make carbonara, leeks, pasta
By Nick • November 11, 2009
Buying fresh herbs always stresses me out. I feel like they are pretty essential in some dishes and really add a ton of flavor that’s sometimes hard to replicate with dried herbs. There are normally two problems when I buy them though. First, they are incredibly expensive. Most herbs are weeds. Or trees. How is [...]
Posted in chicken, Dinner, Easy Stuff, Economical, good food, Pantry | Tagged basil, chicken, Dinner, freezing stuff, garlic, olive oil, pasta, pesto, pine nuts
By Nick • July 29, 2009
I’ll say this much: The Italians knew the magical formula to making amazing food. Turns out you can layer anything between layers of pasta, marinara sauce, and cheese, and it will be delicious. I love a lasagna with meat in it, but for a lighter change during these summer months, I thought I would substitute [...]
Posted in Dinner, good food, pasta | Tagged how to make lasagna, Italian, lasagna, marinara sauce, mozzarella, pasta, ricotta, squash, zucchini
By Nick • June 4, 2009
Fellow foodblogger, Nick, over at Imafoodblog, recently got his hands on some black truffles for this post. Apparently, he had more than his fill because he offered me one for the small price of one decent six pack of beer. I couldn’t pass that up!
Let me be completely honest: I was a bit scared of [...]
Posted in appetizers, Dinner, Fish, good food | Tagged butter, egg pasta, expensive stuff, homemade pasta, pasta, scallops, truffles
By Nick • April 22, 2009
This is one of those posts that I think really embodies what I’m trying to do with this site. I’ve never made fresh pasta before. The excuse I’ve always said is that I don’t have a pasta press. But a few weeks ago I got to thinking that you know what, pasta was made before [...]
Posted in good food, Learning to Cook, pasta | Tagged egg pasta, eggs, homemade pasta, how to make pasta, linguine, mushroom sauce, mushrooms, pasta
