Tag Archives: Pasta

Mushroom Fettuccine

Speaking as someone who is learning to cook for a living, I’ve got a sad, embarrassing confession for you: I’m just not that into cooking meals at home these days. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that I’m on my feet at 5AM and I’m baking biscuits by 6. Or maybe it’s [...]

Honeycomb Cannelloni Recipe

 
You don’t have to talk to me for very long about cooking before the conversation will come around to how I think Jamie Oliver is a genius. He is a champion of non-fussy home cooking, as illustrated by the type of recipes he creates (modern takes on classics, refreshingly free from snotty attitude) and the [...]

Open Lasagne with Acorn Squash Puree Recipe

 

 
This recipe involves fresh pasta. To learn how to make fresh pasta at home, see my last post.
Sometimes we start out a recipe with the best intentions of carrying it through, only to be struck by creativity and veer far from the directions on the page. That is exactly how Jamie Oliver’s Open Stained-Glass Lasagne [...]

Making Fresh Pasta at Home

 
Although I am not exactly sure when the first time I had fresh pasta was, I’m guessing that it was the first Christmas that I had teeth enough to chew it. Once a year, several days before the holiday, my grandmother would bring out her huge, heavy wooden board and a long rolling pin and [...]