I’m back on my Barefoot Bloggers thing this month! This month’s recipe comes from Kimberly at Indulge & Enjoy. I know I just posted about risotto and trust me I wasn’t thrilled about making more risotto so soon but I was delighted at the spring-ness of this recipe. Leeks, asparagus, peas and fennel? Sign me [...]
Based on my recent success with another Marcella Hazan recipe I decided to try something else from Marcella Says…. This time around I opted for risotto, mainly because I had some Arborio rice in my cupboard that I wanted to use up. This risotto with three types of peppers seemed the most appealing especially since [...]
Dec 292009
I was reading the Food Section of the New York Times and stumbled upon this recipe for a risotto-style pasta dish by Mark Bittman. I love risotto and I love pasta so I figured I’d see how this would all work out. It was kind of labour intensive for no reason! The pasta didn’t end [...]
Jan 072009
Clearly the love affair with the Barefoot Contessa/ Ina Garten continues. Her Back to Basics cookbook is FANTASTIC! I kind of want to make every recipe in this book. At the rate that I’m going I will probably have completed the task by… Februrary. I’m only kind of kidding. I didn’t have an overwhelming desire [...]
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 [...]
Oct 112007
One of the best things about fall is easily the abundance of squash. Summer and its fruits are great and all but let mid-September hit and start rolling out the squash and you have a VERY happy camper. The other day Loblaws had squash on sale for $0.49 a pound so we bought some acorn [...]
