Imagine my surprise when, after a busy day at work, I came home to check in on Twitter and found out that America's Test Kitchen Feed had featured my photo!
You may recall that I made America's Test Kitchen's Slow Cooker Spicy Sausage Tomato Sauce recently. I posted a photo via Twitter and voila, it is now on their website.
The recipe is really simple and the results are great. Get this in the slow cooker, go out and have a fun day and enjoy this sauce just a few hours later.
While I was pulling together all of the ingredients for this dish, I made a very interesting discovery.
I've been preparing to shoot and write this blog for close to 30 years.
In tenth grade we had to present a how-to project, complete with step-by-step instructions. You know what I chose as my subject? My mom's pasta broccoli dish.
I remember being in the kitchen with Gran Fran, taking pictures with my sister's camera of each and every step of the process. My sister was kind enough to develop and print the photos for me, as she was a big-time college art student at the time. Suffice it to say, I was the only kid in the class who chose a food project, and who bothered to bring a big bowl of the finished product for the class to share.
Fast-forward to this past weekend when I found myself in my local farmer's market and I came across the above specimen of romanesco cauliflower. It took me a long time to take a knife to it, for fear of totally hacking it all to bits and losing the great geometric shapes that make up the whole. I carefully cut into the bottom of the stem and began to take the pieces off the stem. They were firm enough to keep their shape.
I was immediately brought back to my mom's kitchen the moment I put the parboiled romanesco into the hot saute pan to brown. Gran Fran makes very simple food, but with complex flavors. I took some liberties with her original recipe, and added some tuna, spicy italian vinegar pickled peppers and capers. It wasn't exactly like hers, but it sure was close, and it tasted the same as it did 30 years ago.
Like home.
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My avocado and egg smash up is featured on today's DailyBuzz HealthyLiving site.
I'm excited to try some of the other recipes, especially the dark chocolate avocado mousse.
Congratulations to Peanut Butter Fingers, Running with Tongs, Skinny Taste, Kahakai Kitchen, Fun, Fit and Fabulous, Green Lite Bites and Bran Appetit.
Go get some avocados and give whip up one of these excellent recipes.
a favorite sandwich from our 2010 trip to Paris....
GREEK SANDWICH!!
Oh man, this is good!
Michelle took me to her favorite greek sandwich place in the Mouffetard (Rue de Contrescarpe is just nearby).
It’s a sandwich that includes fries….on it! Did the purveyors of such a treat say to themselves “what kind of sandwich would Tashi like best?” and then add the fries to make it my favorite thing ever?!
Chicken marinated in secret spices, though I definitely tasted oregano in there. And the white sauce they put on there may have had yogurt. Oh, the pita bread was fresh and the tomatoes, too.
I do believe this kicked the L’As du Falaffel’s sandwich down to number two, but either would be delightful.
You can re-create one in your own home by using this lovely recipe.
The original post can be found on my Paris travel blog here.
Enjoy!