See and download the full gallery on posterous Discovering the Italian sandwich~ Recently a friend e-mailed me asking for a “big, fat, greasy, wet, sloppy, Italian Beef Sandwich recipe.” Sadly, I had to tell him that the only place I have ever eaten something like that is in Chicago—and never in Italy. That isn’t …
This ain’t no rabbit food…
See and download the full gallery on posterous and Mr. McGregor isn’t going to run me off~ For the longest time, I always wondered why Europeans had their salad course AFTER their main/meat course. In America, we eat our salad course first, almost as an appetizer. I am not sure why there is a …
“You don’t send me flowers”…
See and download the full gallery on posterous Well, “cauliflowers,” that is~ I spent this past weekend in Minneapolis visiting some dear friends—one of which was celebrating a birthday by having a little get-together at her house. Recently I have been on a cauliflower kick and when I was asked to make a pasta …
Let’s get cookin’!
Sugo…a.k.a. Pasta Sauce~ Ciao Tutti! I thought I’d post a little online cooking tutorial for you to enjoy. It is broken into two parts—the original recording was too big to load it all as one. The recipe is from my soon-to-be released book Beyond the Pasta: Recipes, Language & Life with an Italian Family, …
Lesson Number 2~
Nonna cooks Pollo con Limone~ Recently, I received an e-mail from Alessandra filling me in on all the happenings back in Viterbo. I mailed the Feb House Beautiful with the article on our house (http://www.mark-leslie.net/2010-starts-with-a-bang) to them back in early January and, when I hadn’t heard from them, I sent an e-mail making sure that …
Lesson Number 1:
Le presento Nonna~ The New Year has started and we are all in a deep freeze. It is time to warm up with a little video of Nonna. To bring everyone up to speed: Nonna is the grandmother of the family that I lived with in Viterbo, Italy, in 2005 through a university program in …
2010 starts with a BANG!
The house gets published~ 2010 promises to be an exciting year and it has already started off with a big bang. Our house has been published in the 2010 February “Makeovers” issue of House Beautiful magazine on news stands now. Yes, House Beautiful has already sent the February issue to its subscribers and some of …
To refrigerate or not to refrigerate…
Brrr…it’s getting cold in here. Well, not so much~ “Are you still going to eat that?” I can hear Ian’s voice in my head as I am about to descend from my room into the kitchen this morning. I am in Hilton Head, SC, finishing up a production of CABARET (http://artshhi.com) and my three roommates …
Italy’s most famous dessert~
La Dolce Vita~ The Sweet Life My days lately have been filled with editing the manuscript for the book, which also includes cooking and editing the manuscript’s recipes. There have been several occassions, by the end of the day, when the refrigerator is full of the various, and failed, attempts at a single recipe. Ignoring …