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Cookbook: Urban Italian: Simple Recipes and True Stories from a Life in Food
Rating: 4/5

If you like to make tuna bean salad but want to make it more of a main course, this is the way to go. The pasta (the name says ziti, but I used penne) is mixed up with soft red on...

Cookbook: Urban Italian: Simple Recipes and True Stories from a Life in Food
Rating: 5/5

This is basically a pasta dish with goat cheese sauce (with milk, cream, stock and herbs), tangily boosted by the tomatoes (marinated in red & balsamic vinegars & olive oil...

Pollo Casero

Jun 17, 2012
Cookbook: Spain...A Culinary Road Trip
Rating: 4/5

This is a lovely and rather simple dish; the name of the recipe is 'home chicken' and with garlic, pimento, white wine, an onion and some patience it turns into a lovely and yes ho...

Risotto Milanese

May 31, 2012
Cookbook: Two Greedy Italians: Carluccio and Contaldo's Return to Italy. Antonio Carluccio and Gennaro Contaldo
Rating: 4/5

This is saffron risotto; well worth making, despite the cost, as it does not take that many threads (they advocate powdered saffron, but I like seeing the actual threads as I cook)...

Tuna and Beans

May 31, 2012
Cookbook: Nigella Express
Rating: 5/5

This is strictly an appetizer, but I've been making it for dinner with some good bread on the side and it always works. Besides peeling and then chopping a red onion, there's hard...

Eggs Carbonara

May 30, 2012
Cookbook: Off the Eaten Path : Inspired Recipes for Adventurous Cooks
Rating: 5/5

This recipe is based on something that Blumer got used to eating at a Hollywood restaurant - scrambled eggs with green onions, pancetta, avocado, chili, parmesean, garlic - brillia...

Cookbook: Surreal Gourmet
Rating: 5/5

This is an excellent recipe; fresh vegetables and good pesto make the difference, it is as creamy as you would like it (single or double cream are both fine) and the heat is necess...

Cookbook: Cook with Jamie: My Guide to Making You a Better Cook
Rating: 5/5

I have made this many many times with all kinds of sausage and spiral pastas and it always works out well; the most complex thing is getting the fennel seeds and chili flakes bashe...

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