Today’s Sunday Supper entry is homemade garganelli pasta with a duck ragu. This dish is one of the hardest dishes I have made from Mario Batali’s cookbook. The recipe is at page 217. Like most of his dishes I have made in the past, you start with his basic pasta recipe. After I rolled the […]

This Sunday’s entry is my first major attempt at Indian food. I used recipes from Classical Indian Cooking by Julie Sahni at page 332 and the Bombay Café cookbook by Neela Paniz at pages 11, 16, 59, and 196. I needed specific Indian spices and ingredients, so I went to a local Indian market to […]

For this Sunday, I made Mario Batali’s standard pasta recipe with two different sauces. The recipes are on pages 200 and 206 of his Molto Italiano cookbook. The first sauce was a red sauce with sausage, basil, and sun dried tomatoes. The second sauce was a lemon, hot pepper, and Pecorino Romano sauce. The longest […]

For this week, I am posting about Thursday’s Thanksgiving Dinner. I made a turkey and gravy, stuffing, souffle potatoes, and green beans. The recipe for the turkey and gravy came from James Beard award winning chef Tom Colicchio. I seasoned the bird with thyme, tarragon, rosemary, and sage, and basted it several times while cooking. […]