A look at local food discoveries, whether it’s a particular dish or an ingredient, often with one or more recipes.
Posting each meal’s menu and a description began to seem a bit boring, especially as we often repeat dishes. Besides, I post each meal with photos and menu on my Instagram account, so anyone who’s keenly interested can see them there. I kind of liked the approach I took last month of picking out a… Read More The November Meals
Getting back to watching more of Stanley Tucci’s adventures around Italy. I note, here in the second season, with the episodes I’ve watched so far, that he’s putting less focus on the details of preparation of dishes, and more on his enjoyment of them. So there are fewer details to work with. Still, I can… Read More Tucci #6
In Apulia, or Puglia, as well as Lucano in neighboring Basilicata, it is not unusual to encounter classic strascinati, or “dragged” pasta. And, I could have started there, with a simple flour and water preparation, and one of the many classic sauces to acompany them. But, my eyes alighted on the less common strascinati di grano saraceno,… Read More Peculiar Pastas #13
As with so many of these origin stories, we have some facts and we have some speculation. Let’s contrast… the recipe came to fame at one of two restaurants in the town of Bari, in Apulia, Italy – Marc’Aurelio or Al Sorso Preferito. The generally accepted one is the latter, and chef Enzo Francavilla is credited… Read More Killer Noodles
No, I’m not going to overdo this and subject you to fifteen dishes in one post. I was just falling behind, wanted to catch up, and didn’t feel like I needed to detail very dish. So, I’ve picked one dish that I particularly liked the way it turned out, from each of the last three… Read More 2022 Dinner Menus 28, 29, and 30!
The lunches are slowly beginning to catch on. Not unexpected that it would take a little time for word to percolate around. For this lunch we only had two folk come, but it was fun, and gave me a chance to spend more time chatting with them. Still haven’t seen any of the folk who… Read More 2022 Lunch #3
I’m not avoiding restaurant reviews, I’m just organizing them a bit rather than just throwing them all into one big Bite Marks. This last weekend’s menu now, with folk from the US, UK, and Germany. To the two people who made a reservation, then went out for a snack pre-dinner at another restaurant, ended up… Read More 2022 Dinner Menu #27
Two dinners this last weekend – our usual Friday night communal table affair, and a private dinner for a group of mortgage brokers from Puerto Rico. Fun times had by all! Tiradito de Palometa – palometa, variously translated as butterfish, leatherjack, or pomfret, all of which are actually different fish, so, who knows… cut into… Read More 2022 Dinner Menu #26