Making pasta at home is nothing new. I’ve been doing fresh egg pasta, flat, stuffed, hand-rolled or on a chitarra for years. However, making “dry” fresh pasta was not something I’ve tackled. I did not want to invest in a pasta extruder and was not sure it will be worth it. Also, most books never bother with [...]
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Fresh Extruded Pasta: Rigatoni, Sausage and Ricotta
Posted in Book Recipes, Dairy, Food, Pasta and Noodles, Pork, Sausage, tagged Extruded Pasta, Homemade Pasta, Homemade Sausage, Tomato Sauce on January 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Cassoulet and Green Salad, Country Bread and Red Wine, Walnut Tart – A Dinner from Southwest France
Posted in Baking, Book Recipes, Bread, Breads and Pies, Duck, Food, Green Vegetables, Legumes, Pastry, Pork, Sausage, tagged Cassoulet de Toulouse, Clay Pot Cooking, Duck Confit, French Cooking, Homemade Sausage, Paula Wolfert, Toulouse Sausage, Winter Bean Dishes on December 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A long titled post suitable to a properly labor-intensive and delicious cold-weather meal. Both the Toulouse-style Cassoulet and the Walnut Tart are based on Paula Wolfert’s recipes in her book “The Cooking of Southwest France“. The bread is the Pain de Campagne (country bread) recipe from Peter Reinhart’s “The Bread baker’s Apprentice“. Making a proper Cassoulet is a good bit [...]
Labor Day Bocks and Brats
Posted in Baking, Book Recipes, Bread, charcuterie, Food, Pork, Sausage, Sous Vide, tagged Bockwurst, Bratwurst, Charcuterie, Homebaked Buns, Homemade Sausage on September 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »
We were in San Antonio this past weekend, so I did not have much time to prepare a full-fledged barbecue spread. San Antonio was a fun close getaway with the family and as usual we had a great meal at Dough Pizzeria Napolitana (might be one of the best of it’s kind in the country) and [...]
Super bowl XLIV: Gumbo and Sweet Potato Pie
Posted in Baking, Chicken, Food, Pastry, Sausage, Shrimp, tagged Chicken, Gumbo, Okra, Pecan, Pie, Roux, Shrimp, Super Bowl, Sweet Potato on February 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I was pretty happy that the Saints made it to the Super Bowl this year, but I honestly did not think they would actually win! That was a fantastic game. Either way I knew I’d be making some good food to match the Saint’s home state. The main course was gumbo. This one is shrimp, [...]
Cotechino with Polenta
Posted in Food, Pork, Sausage, Sous Vide on August 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cotechino is a traditional sausage from Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is traditionally served on New Year’s Eve. Italians serve it with lentils (to bring rishes in thew upcoming year), potatoes or polenta. I make Cotechino once a year, by that I mean I make the sausage mixture once a year. That mixture however, [...]
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