sauce

Recipe: Early fall tomato sauce

September 22, 2012

I thought I’d follow up the post about food mills with a simple recipe that uses one. It’s tomato sauce, a good, basic sauce for any number of dishes. I use it with anything from the fast, like penne and tomato sauce showered with Parmesan shavings, to the slow, such as a hunk of pork [...]

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Every Irish-American family has at least one good St. Patrick’s Day story. Ours involves green beer, green teeth, and a banner at a wake that said, “Good luck Casey!” (Casey, may he rest in peace, needed a lot more than luck in that story.) Even so, enjoying St. Patrick’s Day has nothing to do with [...]

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I seem to talk about salsa verde quite a bit. And that’s probably because I think it tastes good on nearly everything. Eggs? Check. Potatoes? Check. Grilled chicken? A no-brainer. This holds true whether I’m discussing an herby Mediterranean-style salsa verde or the Mexican kind made with tomatillos. This post is about the latter. Mexican [...]

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