I am a pack rat. I save everything from old credit card receipts to sappy poems written by boys of summers long gone. I hardly ever throw anything away. I have my paid and validated phone bills from ...
Smoky-Spicy Bacon Pasta
There are recipes we get from books and there are recipes we get from life. These are recipes that are cobbled together over time, perhaps never really settling into what one might call a fixed ...
Salmon and Salsa Verde Pasta
Remember this salsa verde? Don’t worry, I’m not about to drag it out of archives and repeat it all over here. Well, not totally anyhow. I do believe though that it is worth the second mention. I’ve ...
HHDD #26: Roasted Capsicum & Chickpea Pasta
What a difference a roasting makes. Sometimes things that wouldn’t normally appeal transform themselves into the sublime when put through extreme conditions – like diamonds, and people, and bell ...
Chori-Gamba Pasta
We all have our favoured pasta sauce camp. There is the cream sauce camp. The tomato-based camp. And the olive oil-based camp. Although I am mostly an equal opportunity pasta enjoyer, I pretty much ...
HHDD #14: Gnocchi with Rocket Pesto & Tyrolean Bacon
Which of the following statements are true?Bacon goes excellently with pesto.ORBacon goes excellently with everything, including pesto.I am definitely an ardent student of the second school of ...
Orecchiette with Pesto and Peas
Orecchiette…my absolute favorite pasta shape. Meaning little ears in Italian (ear is orecchio), they catch sauce and filling like a dream. The slightly domed shape traps the sauce and bits, while the ...
C’s Scallop Arrabiata with Bacon
Although I spend many of my waking (and non-waking) hours thinking of food, even if I love creating menus in my mind, though it is I who subscribes to food magazines and spends hours poring over ...
Crispy Sage and Brown Butter Pasta
Serves one. Why is it that I hardly ever see a recipe that “serves one”? I only really started cooking (and loving it) when I lived on my own, and more often than not, I was cooking to serve one. ...
Leftover Osso Buco Pasta
As much as we would like to believe that we live in a universe where we create a new dish for every meal, at some point we have to deal with leftovers. Whether it’s a busy work-week-night when there ...