Elizabeth Minchilli's Blog, page 31
December 23, 2015
happy {holiday} cocktails
I hope your holidays bring you good cheer. And to make sure of that my parting gift to you, during this holiday season, and for the year, are enough cocktail recipes to see you through any and all holidays, family get-togethers and celebrations (or the aftermath there of) Auguri!!!! Thanks so much for the support,...
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December 20, 2015
spaghetti alle vongole {pasta}
Good food prepared at home doesn’t have to be slow, laborious and complicated. In fact, some of my favorite dishes are dead simple. Here are a couple of photos from lunch on Saturday, that Sophie prepared in about 30 minutes: Spaghetti alle Vongole. From buying the clams at the fish store to getting lunch on...
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December 17, 2015
cauliflower + jerusalem artichoke {soup}
I’m definitely in a soup frame of mind lately. I could say that’s it’s the cold weather that is making me crave a steaming bowl of something. But, well, it’s just not that cold in Rome yet. So maybe it’s the other way around? Maybe, if I keep making soup, I’ll trick my body into...
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December 14, 2015
sausage + escarole {video}
I’ve been on a cleaning up rampage lately. Like a lot of people I know there is just too much stuff in my life. I’ve been living in the same house for over 25 years now, and the slow creep of accumulation has left its mark. The recent spate of tidiness was inspired by the...
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December 10, 2015
cabbage + potato {soup}
Did you make a big turkey last week? And afterwards, did you make turkey broth. And did you, not wanting to ever think about anything turkey-related again, fill your freezer with the broth where it will probably sit until next November? My relationship with frozen broth runs between two extremes. Since I made the broth...
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December 7, 2015
making pasta in umbria {video}
This past summer I learned a lot about making pasta. I visited a pasta making factory in Abruzzo where I made this video and a flour mill in Sicily where I learned how to make busiate. But one of the funnest pasta days I had was a visit to a farm in the middle of Umbria....
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December 2, 2015
colline emiliane {rome}
I’m sorry, but I’ve got pumpkin on the brain lately. Tis the season. But the third post in a row? I know you’re probably ready to stage an intervention, but bear with me. This post is a pumpkin post masquerading as a restaurant update. The restaurant is Colline Emiliane, which has been serving well made...
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November 30, 2015
pasta {pumpkin + pancetta}
I love pumpkin. In almost any shape or form, I buy them. I love to cook with them, I love to look at them and I love to photograph them. And when I say ‘pumpkin’ I mean winter squash. Butternut I know and love, but put a pile of gnarly orbs in a basket at...
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November 22, 2015
last minute ideas {thanksgiving}
Some years I do Thanksgiving. Some years I don’t. (It’s just not a Italian holiday, and I swing both ways) This year we are on. And on big time. Emma decided that we should be doing Thanksgiving this year and has invited about 15 people for a big sleep over at our house in Umbria....
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November 18, 2015
castello di ama {tuscany}
When my friend Maria comes to town…I’m usually not here. It’s like fate or something crueler, but whenever Maria (who travels almost constantly for work) ends up in the city where I actually live, 9 times out of 10 I’m away for some reason or other. Last week, when I got an email from Maria...
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