Continuing with my new dish of the meal approach to the Casa SaltShaker dinners and lunches. We had a few extra in December, with some private parties, as well as we added in Saturday nights for Christmas and New Year’s Eves. Carré de Cerdo – Not the prettiest presentation nor photo, but damn it was… Read More Dishing December
A recova is a market where live poultry is sold. There was a building constructed in 1803 near to the Plaza de Mayo that was called La Recova for the former poultry market located there. It was torn down 81 years later. It wouldn’t be until more than a century later, in 1992, that La Recova de Posadas… Read More Bite Marks #100!
I promised you variations on penne all’arrabiata, and I’m here to fulfill on at least one of those. Easily the most well-known of them is penne alla vodka. Now, this is not some ancient tradition in Italian cooking. I mentioned that there are three main spin-offs of the arrabiata dish, all’infuriata, alla vodka, and alla moscovita, and that they didn’t… Read More A Polish Guy Walks in to…
I’m sure that at some point in its history… …this street was much more attractive. It’s not exactly the sort of block I’d head to looking for excellent dining. But I have, over the years, spotted this place, Le Famiglie, Salta 440, in Monserrat, opened back in 1980. And recently, it popped up in a couple… Read More Welcome to the Families
I’ve been mulling this over for about a week now, trying to decide how to approach it. The situation, recently, we had a guest who attended. Though not definitively ill, she was sweating a lot and appeared a bit pale. But she said she was fine. Next day, however, she sent me an email letting… Read More Please. Think.
I was talking to a friend about this series of pasta posts, and he noted that I’ve mostly focused on the area around Rome and Naples, wondering just how many pastas there are from those regions. And of course, if we’re talking about well-known pastas, internationally in particular, it’s a limited field, and there are… Read More The Angry Quills
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