Reading List
  • Reading between the Wines
    Reading between the Wines
    by Terry Theise

    I just read this.

  • A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table
    A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table
    by Molly Wizenberg

    Very cute and heart warming little book.

  • The Accidental Connoisseur: An Irreverent Journey Through the Wine World
    The Accidental Connoisseur: An Irreverent Journey Through the Wine World
    by Lawrence Osborne

    I just started to read this wonderful little book and I love it.

  • The Tummy Trilogy
    The Tummy Trilogy
    by Calvin Trillin

    I like the way this guy thinks about eating. He writes, “On the road, it became rarer for me to contemplate the possibility that, in my desperation, I might be forced to sidle over to the clerk at the motel, as if I were going to make some innocent inquiry about checkout time, grab him by his necktie, pull him over the counter, and say, in a voice that signified I meant business, Not the place you took your parents on their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. The place you went the night you came home after thirteen months in Korea.”

Fresh Salsa

A picture of better days. Ah summer with salsa made from Michigan ingredients and my two hands.

Friday
Sep302011

« Anchovies? Yes, Please. »

Here’s a simple dish. One that you could serve w/ a salad or meat. I chose a beautiful fillet of steelhead. 

What you’ll need:

angel hair pasta

4-5 garlic cloves sliced thinly

crushed red pepper flakes

3-4 anchovy fillets minced

1 pound of fresh washed and dried spinach

1 chopped roma tomato

parmesan

black pepper

Directions:

When the pasta only has about two minutes left to cook, heat about 1/3 of a cup of olive oil in a small sauté pan. Add garlic, anchovies and crushed red pepper. Cook over low heat and stir often, until the garlic is golden. Immediately remove from heat. Drain pasta, return it to its cooking pot. Add spinach and toss, which will wilt the spinach in such a pretty way. Just so you know, it turns bright green. Quickly, add the hot oil and toss it to coat the pasta/spinach. Add chopped tomato. Put it on plates. Grate parmesan over top. Finish w/ fresh cracked black pepper. Eat.

 

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