There are now 176 posts here. It gets unwieldy trying to find the right stuff among so much stuff. So I have gone through every post and categorized all the food posts.
If you want pasta, vegetables, meat, fish or even vegetarian, just type that into the search box and every post indexed under your term will come up.
I’ll bet if you searched on pasta we’d both be surprised.
Add comment May 4th, 2007
Sometimes it is very difficult.
It is difficult when reading a news report like this one. They are taking her where? Oh dear! It’s boring! It was once the original colonial site that had women, but they all died! Who would drag an eighty year old lady who has been all over the world and who owns all the swans in Great Britain to Roanoke settlement? The forest closed over it and it was forgotten until someone started digging it up again. All up and down the east coast are places you could describe the same way, leaving out the word “original” but most of them have Walmarts on top of them now.
And then I read that some people are asking the non-political figurehead of the British government and people to apologize for introducing slavery and mistreating native Americans.
Listen, you people with sieves for brains, it is true that once most American colonials were British, but some years back there was a war and we, mostly British citizens, won. The Loyalists and the British government and military all went home or to Canada. What was left was us, American citizens. What happened after that was our responsibility. There were some drafters of the Constitution who wanted to abolish slavery right then, but we didn’t do it. It took us about 100 years to get around to it, whereas the British did it about 20 years before we did.
We continued to hunt down, kill and exploit native Americans right into the 20th century.
So, I don’t think it’s their fault. Maybe Queen Elizabeth II should apologize for the terrible breakfast I was served at my student hostel in London, but for US slavery and cruelty to native Americans, no, I don’t think so.
There, I didn’t use any terrible language at all.
The photo is linked from the BBC News website.
Add comment May 4th, 2007
We remember this! I am posting it because I think Jessica would like it. It is from the cookbook I wrote for Slow Travel in 2005, and it’s still a winning recipe.
For four people:
Make the sauce in a skillet or pot large enough to accommodate the cooked pasta when it is done.
Combine the butter and cream in the pan and bring to a boil. Once it is boiling, add the lemon juice and stir thoroughly. Add the lemon peel and continue stirring/boiling until the sauce is reduced to one half of its original volume if using fresh cream. If using Grifo panna da cucina, you don’t need to reduce it, just cook long enough for the peel to be softened. Taste and add salt to balance the lemon. Every lemon is different and so every dish must be salted to taste. Turn off the heat, but leave the pan on the warm burner.
Cook the pasta in salted boiling water. When it is cooked, but still firm to the bite (probably 5-6 minutes for the smaller shapes), drain it and add to the pot with the sauce. Place over medium heat and toss thoroughly for just 15-20 seconds. Add the grated cheese and the shrimps and toss.
Serve immediately with additional grated cheese (I like mine with a bit of fresh ground black pepper, too!).
I like a bitter-greens salad with bits of kiwi with this, with a simple vinaigrette dressing. Without the shrimps it is Pasta al Limone, my favorite pasta.
And I think we will also send it along to Presto Pasta Night.
2 comments May 2nd, 2007
If you just want to see a lot of shapes, go here or here and there are pages and pages. It will open in a new browser tab or page. Then come back here and we can talk about what goes with what and why.
Add comment May 2nd, 2007
