Italian specialty

8-19-2020 Wed. 


DINNER ---  pasta with roasted red pepper, radicchio and salami | sauteed fresh peas with cubed Italian ham | pan-fried plantain 

• go west once a while 

ten year anniversary of this blog

1-04-2020 Sat. 


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee |  scallion pancake |  crispy flat bread with yogurt and berries | grapefruit | apple
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- tea
PRE-CONCERT-DINNER --- pasta with shrimp, smoked salmon and radicchio | wine 

• recording life mostly through cooking and traveling  

they sounded Italian

10-21-2019 Mon. 


DINNER --- asparagus and radicchio pasta | arugula salad 

• back to quick weekday dinner

pasta, pesto

8-19-2019 Mon. 


 DINNER --- pasta with pesto sauce, snap pea and  radicchio | pan-fried shishito | salad 

• presto: basil  from farmer's market, much more flavor than packaged kind 

asparagus and radicchio

6-18-2019 Tue. 


DINNER --- pasta with asparagus and radicchio 

• nice pair

homemade orecchiette

1-07-2019 Mon. 


BREAKFAST--- homemade cilantro flat bread | congee with thousand-year-old egg and pickles | fruit | coffee 
DINNER --- homemade orecchiette with tomato sauce  | suateed long beans 

•  dough and shaping takes time and patience 

properly Italian

10-21-2018 Sun. 


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee  | homemade rye bread | cheese | grapefruit 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME ---  tea
DINNER --- guacamole |  spaghetti with manila clams  | zucchini fritters | wine 

• superb fresh clams and zucchinis 

pasta with arugula pesto sauce

4-20-2018 Fri. 


DINNER ---  swordfish on skewer | pasta with arugula pesto sauce | sauteed artichoke heart | baked Japanese sweet potato fries 

• a dinner made from Trade Joe's supplies 

NYE dinner in an Italian castle

12-31-2017 Sun. 


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee |  Norwegian pancake with apple | grapefruit 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- tea | steamed  fresh water shrimp 

DINNER --- ( at O. & F. 's castle ) 
A light egg-based savory snack
with a light cocktail (Adonis) 

Tagliatelle alla Contadina, Sardinian Recipe.

Wine: Cannonau di Sardegna (a Sardinian red)

Tacchino arrosto, con contorno di patate.

Quorn based roast, with baked potatoes, Abruzzo recipe,

Wine: Montepulciano d'Abruzzo

Panettone 

Wine: Marsala 

• O. & F. 's dinner in a fantasy castle at a real Italian marble table and a liquor cabinet of two century old. 

midnight toast with Italians

12-31-2016 Sun. clouds and sun.  


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | homemade orange bread | orange juice | apple
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- tea
DINNER --- ( at O. and F.'s )

New Year's Eve Menu:

Appetizer

Pizzette

Cocktail: `Barbossa' Martini (White Rum, Amontillado, Dry Vermouth)

First First Course:

Risotto agli Spinaci

Spinach Risotto, a central and northern Italian recipe.

Wine: Est Est Est

Second First Course

Rigatoni alla Contadina, traditional central Italian hearty pasta dish

Wine: Montepulciano d'Abruzzo

Main Course

Crespelle al Radicchio e Camembert

Wine: Gran Passione Rosso

(a spectacular and hard-to-find red from the Veneto region)

Dessert

Panettone

Dessert Sparkling Wine (Asti) for the midnight toast!

•  free flowing drinks with a pirate ship backdrop  

orecchiette in lamb ragu

7-06-2016 Wed. hot, sunny.  


BREAKFAST --- coffee
LUNCH --- leftovers 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- cherries
DINNER --- orecchiette with lamb ragu sauce | salad | wine 

•  damn good ragu sauce, homemade 

little ears

4-10-2015 Fri. mild, rainy.  


BREAKFAST --- coffee
LUNCH -- steamed vegetable buns 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- apple
DINNER --- olives | orecchiette with vegetable ragu sauce | sauteed king mushroom | wine 

 

• carrots, celery, onion, tomato, garlic, green chili, an ordinary and happy family of ragu

Torna a Sorriento ( Brooklyn, acutally)

3-28-2015 Sat. chilly, snowy.  


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- ( at Park Slope coffee house ) coffee | croissant 
LUNCH --- ( at La Villa, Park Slope ) Zucchini pizza | Affumicata 
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- coffee
DINNER --- rice congee | vegetable pickles | simmered  eggplant | spicy cabbage 

 

•   over the bridges... to familiar coffee shop and pizzeria...and bye for now