Entries from January 2010

spicy spaghettini with sea urchin and tomatoes

January 31st, 2010 · 4,385 Comments

sea urchin. i’m enamored. and i have been for quite some time although it’s usually called uni and served to me over a slab of rice. well ok, not necessarily – at least not anymore. not since i had it served on a piece of lightly toasted bread, draped with the thinnest, barely warmed slice […]

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Tags: pasta · seafood · tomatoes

osso buco redux

January 25th, 2010 · 4,147 Comments

there’s a pretty amusing backstory as to why i created this dish, but that’s for another day. what i will say is that it was quite fabulous. the sauce wound up taking on a life if its own, as at one point a bad flick of the wrist had rendered it nearly inedible and it […]

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Tags: polenta · veal

malloreddus with sheep’s milk ricotta and bottarga

January 17th, 2010 · 52 Comments

  in my ongoing hunt for new ways to prepare bottarga, by far one of my most favorite things to eat, i googled ‘bottarga and cream’ wondering what i might find. after all, one eats good caviar with creme fraiche so i felt i might be on to something. and once again the interwebs provided […]

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Tags: pasta

new year’s eve bruschetta

January 7th, 2010 · 2,222 Comments

i made a fair few things new year’s eve, but two of them in particular were really wonderful. this, a bruschetta made from a whole wheat la brea baguette with a gremolata of parsley, lemon zest, tuscan olive oil and garlic, topped with two paper thin slightly pan warmed slices of guanciale – was quite […]

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Tags: bread · pork