Spring Pasta with Pesto and Guanciale

May 6, 2012

Beautiful day. Fresh chive pesto. Succulent guanciale. Spring bliss. Have you tried guanciale before? It’s like a more delicious, fattier bacon, with herbs and spices. You’ve just never tasted anything quite so magical. Bite-sized chunks of guanciale rendered enough fat to sautée onions. I added pesto and cream and finished cooking the pasta in the [...]

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Quailchucken

March 30, 2012

On Facebook the other night, I was contemplating what to do with the quail eggs, chicken eggs and duck eggs that have been residing in my fridge.  I thought about making something like Turducken, but with eggs.  Christina piped up and said “Quailchucken, with a side of pumpkin.”  It was postively inspired! Thursday nights I [...]

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The Market is back! The Market is back!

March 24, 2012

I know I’ve preached it before, but the PSU Farmers Market is simply delightful.  My weekends are not complete without it.  The first few weeks of the market are full of kale and chard and mushrooms, fresh pasta, meat.  I fiddled around a bit today when I got home and made this pasta dish.  Fresh [...]

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Lizzy vs. Hormel

March 19, 2012

One night, talking to Luke, the subject of Corned Beef Hash came up.  He said something about loving Corned Beef Hash and that Hormel had the best.  What?  I said.  In a can?  I had never heard of it.  I suddenly had a brilliant idea.  With St. Patricks day coming up, we should do a [...]

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