Ciabatta Bread

April 16, 2010

It seems like eons ago when I use to make and bake bread three or four times a week. A key motivation for all that carbohydrate was not my own carb lust, but that of my children, and especially my young growing teenage son’s voracious appetite. Since then he’s gone away to school where, I’m […]

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Fettuccine w/ Eggplant, Portobello & Chicken Sausage

April 14, 2010

The endless combinations of ingredients that can be used with fresh pasta make each dinner a unique experience. The one above was no exception. Incredibly easy to make and so tasty that we ate it almost as fast as we made it! Here is how I improvised this dish once I noticed fresh fettuccine hanging from […]

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Quick and easy dinner recipe: a Veal Chop Singular Sensation

April 10, 2010

I know I promised a second veal post, but life at 2gourmaniacs has been somewhat frantic lately (much to our chagrin, we’ve discovered Twitter as a way to promote 2gourmaniacs). So, I am finally getting around to telling you about a quick and easy dinner recipe: my brie stuffed veal chop. I initially bought just […]

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Healthy lunch recipes: Eggplant sandwiches

April 8, 2010

More eggplant food writing and recipes?  Absolutely.  It is after all a universally well known and frequently used vegetable in practically every cuisine all over the world. The plant is native to India, it has been cultivated in southern and eastern Asia since prehistory and is well known to the Western world. “The first known […]

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Indian Cuisine: to Shop & Dine in NY

April 6, 2010

In the world of shopping, there is little that will excite me as much as a purveying outing for exotic ingredients, say, like Indian cuisine, just to name one. As time passes, I continue to realize a few, new things. Shopping for overly expensive leather goods is not my bag. Appraising a selection of neck-breaking high […]

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An Exceptional Osso Buco Dinner Recipe

April 6, 2010

If you’ve spent any time perusing our blog, especially the recipe and the food pix pages, you might notice a distinct shortage of meat related content. Why is that, especially since I’m a card-carrying omnivore? A lot of it has to do with Rosaria’s predilection against consuming mammals: it’s just plain hard to purvey and […]

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A great food presentation picture: It’s not a Cake, It’s a Charlotte!

April 5, 2010

Here’s a great food presentation picture I shot recently. When someone invites us over for a lobster dinner at their house, get out of the way or we may run you over. Our friends Vicki and Ronnie asked us and another couple, Ginny and Ron, over for an impromptu lobster dinner recently. Naturally, I asked […]

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Some More of My Food Writing: Toothsome-Toothfish

April 3, 2010

We’ve been cooking and eating a lot of fish since Saturday when we purveyed a selection of seafood from Arthur Avenue, in the Bronx. Consequently I’ve been doing some food writing about it as well.  Let’s see, we’ve had pasta stuffed seppia, we had the fresh Italian imported branzino, pictured below, as I unwrapped them […]

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A curiously small Easter time celebration

March 30, 2010

Several hours prior to our dinner guests’ arrival, I was still uncertain about the nature of my hors d’oeuvres. Rummaging through the fridge for inspiration, I came up with a few creative options and got to work. A day earlier we had purveyed a variety of seafood, meats, and produce at Arthur Avenue, in the […]

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More descriptive food writing: Mushroom Stuffed Turbot

March 24, 2010

Turbot fillet stuffed with King Trumpet mushroom

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