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Chopped Greek Salad
Now that the weather is warming up in Vegas, I’m starting to crave crunchy and cool salads for lunch. As much as I enjoy salads, it is sometimes pretty easy to get in a salad rut, especially since most nights we have a green salad as part of our dinner. While this Chopped Greek Salad [...]
Chickpea Tagine
Carlo and I just got back from five glorious days in Austin. Aside from a 24 hour visit in December, it was the first time that both of us had been there together since my brother graduated from UT in May 2008. The whole trip was a blur of laughter, smiles, hanging out with friends, [...]
Italian Pot Roast
As much as I sometimes complain about living in Vegas, there are some definite perks for living here. Right now I’m really appreciating the blue sunny skies and temperatures in the mid-60s while the rest of the country and lots of places in the world are facing record breaking freezes. Have you seen this satellite [...]
Pappardelle with Tomato and Pancetta
I read the book Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany, by Bill Buford, recently. Buford is a writer who began working in the kitchen of Mario Batali’s restaurant Babbo in New York City, and ended up staying for a couple of years while [...]
Cheddar BLT Burgers with Tarragon Russian Dressing
This recipe taunted us from the cover of Food & Wine magazine for a few months before we gave in and finally made it, and it satisfied our craving for a big juicy burger. The homemade Russian dressing was a nice touch and made it extra tasty. This recipe makes enough for 6 burgers at [...]
Tunisian Tuna Sandwich
Last Friday, I spent the day waiting in doctors’ offices while Carlo got tested for an array of ailments, put on oxygen and an IV drip, and had a CAT scan of his abdomen. It was really scary, and even though we don’t definitively know what was wrong with him, Carlo is thankfully doing much [...]
Thai Chicken, Zucchini, and Tomato Curry
Often times I crave Thai food, and I’ll either make Carlo head across town with me to our favourite Thai restaurant in Vegas, Lotus of Siam, or we will be lazy and order take out from Pin Kaow, which is no where as good as Lotus of Siam, but they deliver. However this fast and [...]
Denise’s Honey Lime Salmon
I got this Honey Lime Salmon recipe from our good friends Denise and Mike. Eating this flavourful dish reminds me of Austin summer nights at their house, hanging out in the backyard next to the grill and with a glass of cold wine in my hand. I love how food can transport you to other [...]
Zucchini Carbonara
I have a tendency to get on these food kicks where I will basically cook an ingredient to death. Carlo still groans about my lentil and chickpea kick when pretty much every meal for a week included either lentils or chickpeas (I think our stomachs are still groaning too ). Due to our visit to [...]
Publican Chicken with Grilled Bread Salad and Grilled Corn
Even though I’ve been around the grill a lot during my many years with Carlo, the extent of my grill participation has been just watching Carlo cook, or at most helping turn meat or veggies over on his request. Somehow the grill has always remained within Carlo’s domain of our cooking adventures, but I wanted [...]
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