Category: home cooking

that’s right.  Six hours later we had dinner. a rack of pork ribs cooked until they are falling off the bone into tomato sauce so sultry and thick it feels like a summer night.  Did I just write that?  Seriously.  Meatballs immersed in that same sauce that has been pulled into the pores of the noodles and drizzled with a splash of olive oil.  Heaven for just a moment.  Forget it that at hour four I was like, ‘Grrrr.  I’m throwing this out – it’s so annoying!’  It was listed as one of the most viewed pages on cookingchanneltv.com in 2012.  A recipe by Michael Symon-modern American chef.  Most viewed?  Probably rightly so.  Melting hunks of pork ribs, meatballs, parmesan, ricotta.  Anyhow, I didn’t change this recipe, or tweak it or mess around at all.  If you have an afternoon to spend-I say do it.  You won’t be disappointed.

Bobby Flay never fails to deliver.  We tweaked a pizza recipe out of Bar American for a caramelized onion, gruyere, garlic oil and bacon pizza by using a Stonefire brand flatbread crust.  The rest of the recipe was fairly involved with cheffy steps so we opted for the flatbread premade for ease of actually eating at a reasonable hour.  I have to say that we really enjoy the two Stonefire products available to us here in central Florida. Onions caramelize for 45 minutes down to a consistently that is almost saucelike and substitute as such for the base of the pizza.  Smothering with gruyere and then sprinkling bacon lardons, garlic chips, and parsley oil over the top creates a great take on home baked pizza.We piled on arugula to round it out as a dinner and ate it all with a knife and fork.  I’ve included a more basic recipe here but if you love great food Bar Americain is full of easy but impressive recipes.

I haven’t been blogging much and have a massive backlog of photos and would be ideas.  It’s just the way it goes sometimes.  I amazed myself with my dinner contributions tonight on the first night back to work after vacation by preparing a super quick but ambitious dinner gleaned from delicious magazine.  It is a UK publication that I love and have a stack of in the kitchen from the weekend clean out of our third bedroom…more on that later.  I flipped through and found this recipe for gnocchi.   Salty streaky bacon, pesto and creamy toasted pine nuts tossed in a grocery store packet of gnocchi.  Easy weeknight stuff in about as much time as it took to boil water and cook a few slices of bacon.  To show my chops we also had homemade creme brulee for dessert-divine and comfortable.