Tapenade is a salty refreshing olive spread that brightens up any bread or cracker plate. You've seen it all over the place, in restaurants and bars, and if you like olives I'm sure you're a fan. It is one of the best snacks to accompany wine. And its name (in French) means...caper-ade. As in capers. Whaaaaaaaaaaat? Did ...
I love anchovy filets. They are salty succulent delicate little strips of magic. I love them so much that my first dinner after 5 weeks of veganism was anchovy carbonara. I could have had anything! Tacos, a burger, steak, fish and chips, a giant wedge of cheese, a gallon of heavy cream, but I went ...
Clams are phenomenal. And basically idiot proof. Guys if you want to impress your lady (or man) with a fancy tasting, fancy looking home cooked meal that was a cinch to prepare, this is the recipe for you. There is so much natural flavor locked inside the modest mollusk that all you have to do is gently coax ...
One of my favorite places in Philadelphia is Alma de Cuba, an utterly satisfying Latin American influenced restaurant. Their mojitos are strong with fresh mint and sugar cane, and their food will give you no choice but to overeat because every plate is pure comfort. But the highlight of any visit to Alma de Cuba starts as soon as ...
Carbonara is one of those pasta dishes (like lasagna) that everyone thinks is sexy as hell but nobody really makes at home. It's a buzz word for deliciousness that we (incorrectly) assume is beyond our modest culinary skills. Foolishness! While lasagna, and homemade ravioli or homemade pesto, are truly labor intensive dishes, carbonara is actually ...
For February's recipe post I kept things simple with two varieties of one of my favorite snacks, hummus. Hummus is one of the most versatile spreads out there. That said, I think we all might be using the word hummus a little too loosely. Just about ANY bean spread these days is labelled as hummus ...
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