Category Archives: Pasta, Rice and Potatoes & Sides Go to almost any Italian restaurant in the United States and no matter the season you’ll likely find some iteration of pasta primavera. In fact if you were born after 1980 you have no recollection of a world without it, but like many other dishes attributed to Italy, Primavera is a modern dish conceived in […]  I have written about my difficulties with breakfast, numerous times. I would love to go out for breakfast every day, because there is something much more appealing about eggs that someone else has cooked. Maybe it’s all the things they’re willing to give me with my eggs that I’m unwilling to make, potatoes, sausage, rye […]  Fork tender is a phrase you hear all the time (well maybe not all the time) but it is often part of a recipe’s directions. So what does fork tender mean, and how do you know when you’re there? The magic about foods that should be cooked to this point is that they are almost […]  If you call could a potato hot, this dish would definitely qualify as a hot potato! Decadent, cheesy, and if such a thing is possible for a potato in your world, sexy. I have seen this recently on the Best Thing I Ever Made, and then again somewhere else, and I decided I needed to try that […]  Everyone loves mashed potatoes, but do you like yours smooth or lumpy, smashed or mashed and silky? Chances are good that if you’re my age, your grandmother had a potato ricer, and you remember her mashed potatoes as creamy and silky. When I was growing up (in the 1960s) instant mashed potatoes began appearing, and […] |
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