By Chile Doctor, September 26th, 2009, at 5:00 am
It’s been downright cold around here the past few days (although warming up today). Shoot, it was down in the high fifties a couple days ago, with rain. Yes, rain! Our two Goldens (Sonia and Whiskey) didn’t quite know what to make of it. Sonia wanted to stay on the porch, and Whiskey kept running [...] Read more »
By Chile Doctor, September 17th, 2009, at 6:00 am
There are lots of quick-to-make fish dishes, because fish itself cooks so quickly. Salmon is no exception! These days, salmon is very popular and relatively inexpensive, mainly due to aquaculture efforts. (That means fish farming, in case your link to Dictionary.com is busted.) I’m always on the lookout for new techniques for preparing fish, especially [...] Read more »
By Chile Doctor, September 16th, 2009, at 6:00 am
I’m not sure what makes pepperoni so good – if it’s the pepper or the oni. – Ulrik Stephens
By now you must be thinking that all Italian dishes have pasta in them. That’s simply not true! (I saw one, once, that didn’t.) But yes, a lot of them do. Which is why Italians use so [...] Read more »
By Chile Doctor, September 14th, 2009, at 10:22 pm
I was in the grocery yesterday and for some reason I looked in the fresh meats section. There wasn’t anything on the shopping list I needed from there; I really wasn’t even supposed to be in that part of the store. Follow your instincts, though, I always say! I looked up and there were some [...] Read more »
By Chile Doctor, September 9th, 2009, at 5:20 pm
I enjoy a good romantic movie as much as the next guy, which is why I watched K-9 today on the American Movie Channel while eating my yummy lunch of instant noodles. (Yeah, the pantry’s still pretty full from last month.) I did just fine until the dog got shot. I don’t care that much [...] Read more »
By Chile Doctor, September 1st, 2009, at 11:00 pm
Let’s start Spicy Italian Month off right by reviewing a cookbook full of zesty recipes from the Mediterranean. Yes, you guessed it (or maybe you didn’t): Mediterranean Hot and Spicy, by Aglaia Kremezi. This slickly produced, recently released volume, published by Broadway Books, has pictures, stories and above all, tasty recipes collected and tested by [...] Read more »
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