It’s just potatoes, salt, olive oil, and vinegar. But the ability to make such a deceptively simple dish with these ingredients isn’t falling-off-the-log simple. There’s picking the perfect potatoes. Then there’s cooking them to just the correct point of doneness. … Continue reading →
This salad is very simple to prepare. First a head of Cauliflower boiled in water until tender. Next, the water is drained and the florets separated. The Cauliflower is immediately tossed with salt, olive oil, and red wine vinegar. The … Continue reading →
I love finding a new recipe that lets me enjoy something that I usually discard. In the past I would just cut off the tops of the beets, toss them in the trash, and either roast or boil the beets. … Continue reading →
I originally made this recipe in the fall when I made THE. BEST. RECIPE. IN. THE. BOOK. . . . pork loin in vinegar with bay leaves. It was a wonderful addition to the meal. Through a strange twist of … Continue reading →
So simple. So delicious. So Marcella. All you do is find some nice fresh green beans, snap them and soak them in water for about 10 minutes. Boil them in salted water until tender but not crunchy. Toss them with … Continue reading →
You’re probably realizing by now that most Italian salads are very simple. Here’s another one to add to your files – Asparagus Salad. Marcella says that when asparagus is at it’s peak in Italy, the favorite way to serve it … Continue reading →
Pretty simple and and pretty good salad, with only one hitch. Radicchio, cranberry beans, olive oil, salt, pepper, red wine vinegar. Marcella provides 3 options for the radicchio, even including Belgian endive. I had no choice – only the rounded … Continue reading →
Cannellini Bean Salad is one of those comfort foods that you didn’t realize you were craving until the sauce hits the heat of the freshly boiled beans and you smell the fishy, salty anchovy, the rich egg yoke, and the … Continue reading →
Panzanella is a salad made with toasted bread and vegetables tossed in vinegar & oil based dressing. This recipe included yellow sweet bell pepper, cucumber, onion, salt, garlic, black pepper, capers, anchovies and tomatoes. I made this recipe last summer … Continue reading →
This recipe again demonstrates the strength of Marcella’s cookbooks. The recipe is very simple. It is just fresh vegetables that are arranged pleasingly and then served with a saucer of good olive oil with some freshly ground salt and black … Continue reading →
. . . and here we are in the salad section. My first recipe to make is this Orange and Cucumber salad which I am told is a classic Sicilian preparation – Sicily being the source of some of Italy’s … Continue reading →
Fresh and simple salads… just in time for Spring! This is a salad that is so simple and so full of flavor. It goes with almost any dish. Romaine Lettuce Salad with Gorgonzla Cheese and Walnuts Use the tender crunchy … Continue reading →
Today is my first salad post. The salad is a very simple one – Shredded Savoy Cabbage Salad. One thing that is a little different about this salad is the way you infuse a subtle garlic scent to the salad. … Continue reading →
Well, that was an unexpected treat. A very simple list of ingredients, sunchokes, spinach, salt, pepper, olive oil and red wine vinegar. But the first ingredient, aka Jerusalem artichokes, was unfamiliar to me and proved impossible to locate within a … Continue reading →
The fewer the ingredients, it seems to me, the more important each one becomes. Since you can’t get ‘fewer’ than one and still have any dish at all, the finocchio is pretty important to this one. I tried my hand … Continue reading →
