It was one of those days. I had run all over town doing errands when suddenly it was 5 o'clock and I remembered that the fridge was uncharacteristically empty. I got home, ran up the stairs, ran into the kitchen slightly panicked (the Mom must be fed) and saw that the ...read more
Category Archives: Seasonal Cooking
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 taste a template of how ...read more
This is what spring looks like. Truly. So why not make a dish that takes the best of those green, grassy, sweet flavors, adds garlic, great olive oil and a hit of salt and serve it up in one dish? The subtle beauty of all these colors of green tangled ...read more
When I was a kid my mom used to always tell me that my eyes were bigger than my stomach. Nothing has changed really. This is what I bought last Wednesday at the Santa Monica Farmers Market. When I unpacked and realized that there was enough vegetable matter to fill ...read more
If you've been to Rome the chances are you've meandered to the ghetto to eat Carciofi alla Giudia the emblematic fried artichokes of the Jewish community there. Somehow they manage to combine several opposing elements in one simple dish. They are meaty and vegetal, crisp and yielding, subtle and sharp ...read more