So I’m trucking along on my October 1976 Gourmet magazine project, and hit the walnut page. Eight of the 74 total recipes in the magazine are walnut related (there are a couple of hors d’ oeuvres that practically scream 1976) so I stocked up on walnuts and decided to make the first one: Pasta with [...]
Hey, wanna start a fight? Ask any group of people what they think the best pizza in the world is. For every five or six people you’ll get seven or eight answers. For me? I like a lot of different kinds of pizza, and lets be honest, there is rarely a piece of pizza that [...]
One of the first forays into expanding my cooking horizons last year was making ravioli. Nothing as ambitious as the St. Louis toasted ravioli, just a simple beef ravioli. I spent (what seemed like) a very long time trying to make the dough the right consistency, then once I’d done that (sorta) I spent an [...]
A few years ago, Dr. Fiance wanted to make her own pasta, so for her birthday or maybe Christmas I bought her a pasta maker. I’m fairly certain we made pasta maybe once with the machine and then put it back into the box, put the box under or behind some other box and didn’t [...]