Just invented, and it does not have a name yet. First person who successfully duplicates it - and likes it - can have it dedicated to them ( Read more... )

A few days ago I bought a mountain of tomatoes at the local market. They were discounted and very cheap, and I just love tomato salad (olive oil, salt and Worcestershire sauce or ground garlic ( Read more... )

...I can recommend you a place to eat. Of course, Rome is full of good restaurants - if you are lucky; and equally full of bad, rip-off places meant to exploit careless or ignorant foreign visitors. However, I can speak for the quality of this one. The name is Emilia Romana, and as the name suggests, it is untypical of Italian restaurants in ( Read more... )

So I had some cabbage left over from making stuffed cabbage a while back; a lot of onions; and some leeks that really needed to be used before they wilted. So I decided to try and use all the natural flavours of the stuff. I melted some chopped bacon fat (good for extra flavour) over a very slow fire; added the chopped onions, sliced leeks, and ( Read more... )

- to post about food. I would like to pass along an idea for a soup which I managed almost by chance by chucking in a number of disparate ingrendients. The doses are not very exact, so this is really more an idea than a recipe ( Read more... )

...who loves to post about food, and once or twice has more or less asked me to. Well, I do not have much to say about food except that I enjoy it; but recently I have made myself what my parents used to call "wartime fish", and I thought, perhaps JD might like to know about this.

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Yesterday I was visiting the local Tesco's, and, as I suppose most people do, I moseyed over to the Discounted Fresh Food counter to look for bargains. I found a couple of nice items - and more than twenty Mozzarelle di Bufala ( Read more... )