This is another recipe from my new favourite cookbook, Cucina Povera, although it’s so simple you hardly need a recipe at all. All you need are caramelized red onions, beef stock, some day-old bread and cheese. This soup, carabaccia, in Italian (just about everything sounds better in Italian), may be the precursor to the more-famous […]
A facebook friend who lives in India posted this on my wall the other day: “r u or have u been in India?” No kidding, it felt a bit like being taken down to FBI headquarters. “Yes,” I felt like replying, “but, I was never a member of the communist party.” It was the profile […]
So, tell me if this has ever happened to you. It’s 10 or 11 in the morning and you wander down the stairs into the kitchen. Deep down you know what to expect but, somehow, you hope, it won’t be true. It is. The kitchen is a mess. Empty glasses and bottles everywhere. There are […]
For the Boy-O-Matic Eating Machine’s 17th birthday dinner the other night I offered to cook whatever he wanted. “Prime rib?” I asked. “Ham melts,” he replied. “With mashed potatoes?” “With cheese.” “And Yorkshire pudding?” “And onions.” Ham melts it was. Favourite meals, It seems, don’t have to be elaborate. If, like my son, you love […]
Meats, Roots and Leaves 