Posts by: Valerie
Gnocchi (plural, pronounched njok-key, with a short-sounded o, the singular is gnocco – njok-koe) are little carb-clouds from heaven. Mix some carbs with a bunch of other carbs and you get something so incredibly tasty, that you wonder why anyone, ever, would choose to omit carbs from their diets.
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As mentioned in my previous post and when we visited Milan last summer, I fell in love with a saffron, zucchini and ham pasta. The fussili alla carbonarina served at Tarantella, my (now) favorite restaurant is so different and full of flavor, that I needed to try it at home.
I wish I [...]
I don’t think I’ve ever really had a favorite restaurant before. There’ve always been a multitude of restaurants that were sure bets, with constant, good food, but a favorite, I’m not so sure about that.
But that’s changed.
Remember how Laurens and I visited Milan in June. We found this awesome restaurant on our [...]
Sometimes you need not only tasty, but fun food as well. That’s how I felt when I decided to make a super psychedelic cake. Layers of different colors, circling eachother in thin strips. It sounded fun. It sounded like a little girl’s dream cake, if only I would make it pink and [...]
Our grocery store had the strange idea to make a bunch of leeks the same price as 1 single trimmed leek. So I bought a big bunch of them. The result, adding leeks to many dishes.
I already wrote about my Chicken and Leeks and Dumplings. After that dish, I wasn’t [...]
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