My Japanese cooking adventure continues. It's lovely to have someone to cook for every night, especially someone as sweet and encouraging as my student roommate Miku. Given the heat I figured that she might appreciate a bowl of cold udon. Now that my pantry is
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I'm sure that tucking a bit of leftover food into a sheet of pasta aka ravioli had its origins in creating abundance from very little. They are the perfect food to use up leftovers. You just need two things. Some fresh egg pasta in your freezer and
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When I found out I was going to interview Nora Singley, she of the internet sensation One Pan Pasta I was excited but skeptical. My maturation as a cook happened in the Italian kitchen so I cook in pretty tried and true traditional ways. The pasta cooking instructions
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By now I hope you're starting to figure out that I rarely make an isolated "dish" or "recipe". Nearly everything I make starts out with something I already made before. I hesitate to call it a leftover. I have a very wide definition of
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Silk Handkerchief pasta or in the Genovese dialect Mandilli de Sea (Seta in Italian) are lovely floppy casual folds of delicate eggy fresh pasta draped on a plate. They are also the easiest and quickest fresh pasta to make at home. If you want to
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