I awoke this morning to a very odd sensation – a cool breeze! After the horrors of this hot hot summer, I had completely forgotten cold weather even existed. Clearly it’s not time to start complaining about the cold yet, but it’s a reminder that it is in fact coming, and with just a week of official summer left, I thought it was time to update our best-named page ever – Edible Pantries – to make sure all of our loyal ES readers are ready for fall cooking.
Ahoy, Bok Choy!
Here’s a creative recipe that comes straight from the farm. A good friend of mine worked on an outdoor education farm in Cali-forn-i-a where one of her co-workers developed his very own vegetarian cookbook based on the veggies they had growing in their garden. This one recipe has always stuck with me, even though I seem to have misplaced the cookbook. I have no name for it, but it does involve Bok Choy.
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As one of our great family-style meals at our endless simmer beach vacation a week ago, a trio of us whipped up an Italian feast that would make our gorgeous contest winner look downright everyday.
In addition to Thresher’s fried green eggplant and our pal Jerry’s amazing marinara sauce, we made some garlic bread and bruschetta, and I went for it and made the most fattening food in the world, alfredo sauce.
I’ve been fooling around with different varieties of cream sauce for awhile now, trying to find the best combination of dairy, dairy and dairy. It’s harder than it sounds!
I’m not gonna say it’s perfect-perfect yet, but I’m pretty happy with my current recipe – and you can be too, after the jump.
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The results of our tastiest chef contest are in, and after 300 votes from real live human beings (no bots here), the Internet has once again proven several essential truths, including that women are attractive, posting photos of said women on your blog helps drive up traffic, and people really hate Rachel Ray.
The clear winner, despite JoeHoya’s disinterest in tomato-clad cooks, is Italian Stallionette Giada de Laurentis. Congratulations to Ms. G, and thanks to everyone who voted, and everyone who didn’t, for indulging out periodic foray away from our almost-always incredibly serious subject matter.
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Photo: Esquire
Because of 80 Proof’s unfortunate bout with appendicitis, I have been working from home this past week. And working from home means lunch not out of the freezer.
After I whipped up a turkey, bacon and cheese sandwich (tip – lay shredded cheese on both sides of the bread and stick under the broiler for just a couple minutes, then assemble) for an immobile 80, I started working on my salad.
On my trip to the Mt. Pleasant Farmer’s Market this past weekend, I picked up my first heirloom tomato. Thinking of this Bon Appetit recipe, I created my own take on a caprese salad.
Avocado, Tomato and Mozzarella Mesclun Salad
Arrange mesclun greens on plate. Scatter slices of tomato (preferbly heirloom, or one from my dad’s garden – nothing beats a Jersey tomato) around the plate. Thinly slice mozzarella and overlap onto the tomato. Dice a half of an avocado and drop it all around the plate. Finish by drizzling extra virgin olive oil (I used my rosemary infused oil,) balsamic vinegar, kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper over the salad.
The ES crew gathered for a meal of semi-homemade pizza last night. I say semi- because my pizza style comes perilously close to violating our cheating policies. I’ve made pizza crust from scratch before, but to me, it’s one of those things that just isn’t worth the effort: it takes ten times longer to prepare, but it’s just not ten times better than store-bought. So until someone gets me a crust recipe that changes my mind, I’m sticking with DiGiornio.
When I get a slice at Famous Rays, I’m a purist and generally just go for plain cheese. But I find the key to putting the homemade pie over the top is toppings, toppings, and more toppings. My philosophy is, as long as you’ve got a firm enough dough, don’t stop until your fridge is empty.
Recipe for a super-rich pepperoni pie and a veggie-plus one after the j.
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During our nascent experiment with Internet entrepreneurship, we have discovered that writing about attractive celebrities seems to boost traffic to our page. So a warm welcome to all our new readers who got here by googling “Marisa Tomei + Hot Pics AND Lasagna.” My apologies if you have no interest in food blogs.
Just want to share one more hott link with ya’ll…Washington Examiner has a great blog about where b-list celebs eat out while in the nation’s capital (and of course, where Barb and Jenna booze it up).
Apparently there was some sort of Italian food conference at GW this week (way to not be up on the scene, D.C. correspondents!) Food Network’s Lidia teamed up with possible Padma porker Mario Batali and fake Oscar winner Marisa Tomei for an afternoon of perpetuating Italian stereotypes. The trio ate at Cafe Atlantico and Tomei called John Travolta fat.
That is all.
Photo by Flickr user alhamish.
