Babbo 110 Waverly Place New York, NY 10011 1.212.777.0303 (Photo via Babbo) So it’s no secret that I have a food crush on Mario Batali (chronicled here). I’ve been to many of his restaurants including Otto, Lupa, Esca, Del Posto and Pizzeria Mozza. Babbo has been on my list for years but has never managed [...]
Jul 132010
(Photo borrowed from here) For Canada Day weekend I decided to head down to New York for a bit of shopping, eating and theatre-watching. Of course after combing some of my favourite NYC resources I came up with a list of places to try and list of places to re-visit. Detailed posts to come on [...]
Jun 202010
A few weeks ago in my cooking class it was egg day. The teacher demonstrated how to make hollandaise, how to poach an egg, how to make various omelettes and then we made quiche. Now as you may or may not know from reading the blog, eggs freak me out. You can’t just get me [...]
Mar 052010
My quest for the perfect pizza continues. I was not happy to let my previous endeavour be my authoritative post on the Mario Batalie Otto pizza dough recipe. I had to give it another shot especially since I”m pretty sure the problem was my yeast. This time my dough rose properly and actually looked like [...]
Feb 042010
My quest for the perfect pizza continues. This time the crust recipe came via Everybody Loves Pizza by Penny Pollack and Jeff Ruby. I can’t remember exactly how I acquired this book but it was likely during my stint interning in network news or when I worked in the TV production world. Either way I [...]
This is the follow-up to my pasta-making experience. All I have to say is oy! I figured I’d use my fresh pasta in a recipe designed specifically for fresh pasta. Of course my buddy/food crush Mario Batali divides his pasta recipes between dried and fresh. Easy enough. After skimming through Molto Italiano I decided on [...]
Every once in a while I get inspired by the idea of a large cooking project. On this particular day I felt like making pasta from scratch. A few years ago I commandeered my sister’s pasta maker for my own use and have had success making pasta (the two or three times I actually made [...]
In my last post a went on about the joy that is my Mario Batali cookbook. And now here’s some evidence. A few weeks ago I bought a bag of Arborio-style rice and kept on meaning to make me some risotto. Then I realized that I had some leftover chicken broth in the fridge… a [...]
I have a pretty solid cook book collection with approximately 50 cookbooks sitting on my shelves. I have a core rotation of about 10 that I use regularly but every once in a while I will crack open a new one just for fun. I’m always on the lookout for a new cookbook, although I [...]
