There is a winter dish from the region of Emilia-Romagna in Italy of cooked lentils topped with slices of boiled stuffed pig’s trotter called zampone. Decades ago I was lucky to live near an Italian deli that regularly carried a domestically-made zampone. Then they went out of business and once the internet was invented and […]
An Italian Casserole called Taiedda–Apulia’s Family Favorite
April 20, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Taiedda — tiella alla pugliese in Italian — is one of the most renowned dishes in Apulia (the region of Italy called the heel of the Italian boot), a casserole of layered onion, potatoes, zucchini, mussels, and rice. This is a dish they make in all three provinces of Brindisi, Lecce, and Taranto. Also known […]
Three Dinners in One from a New England Classic
October 25, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Careful thought can ease your workload considerably, if that’s how you think of cooking, by squeezing three dinners from one initial cooking. It’s a novel way of viewing leftovers in that you’re not using them so much as you are making leftovers to be used according to a plan. First, in the method that follows, […]
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