The AAR RSFP garden is really starting to look good. We’ve got kale growing, some beets, lots of green garlic, chard and chicory. Make sure to see Andrea and Miles doing work below. He makes it look so good.
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Making Corzetti – stamping pasta
This was a fun pasta to make. We used ancient grain varieties to make it so that even the non-gluten eaters could enjoy it. We might go a bit thicker next time so the cool stamp designs show better.
Valentine’s Day Dinner
This ranks as one of the best dinners we’ve prepared. So good. Potato, green garlic ravioli, hanger steak with breadcrumb salsa and flour-less chocolate cake with a grappa soaked cherry reduction and a cherry. Wow. Happy Valentine’s Day.
After Gio and I cranked out over 400 ravioli, I went ahead and used the sweet looking tool below to make about 200 or so farfalle for lunch the next day. Very cool little tool.
Pistachio Cookies — the best
Miles Turning the Compost – easily
Green Pasta on the Chitarra
One of the coolest little cook devices I’ve ever seen: the Guitara. Miles and Chris made some green pasta alla guitara. Turned out pretty deliciously.
Who wants a chicken skin sandwich?
I’m starting to realize that cooking is half about preparing delicious and healthy food for people while consuming as much unhealthy byproducts of that food as possible. Here’s one special Miles creation that nearly put Sous-chef Chris over the edge.
Ingredients:
- 4 pieces of chicken skin, preferably stripped from some kind of slow, roasty chicken dish
- 2 slices bread
- baby aspirin
The Trash Joke
It just so happens that outside our apartment in the Chiaraviglio atop the Gianicolo, the trash is sorted, dumped, re-dumped and crushed, or something like that. It’s actually pretty unclear what is going on with the trash but it either happens between the hours of 1 and 4 in the morning or in the middle of the day when we can watch and try to figure out what in gods name is going on.
One day I was walking home from work and as I rounded the corner I saw one small street sweeper attempt to dump all it’s trash into another flat bed trash truck, miss and dump all its contents in a huge mound in the middle of the street. Six trash men jumped out, swept the mound a little flatter and then three other street sweepers drover around over the wide mound until all the trash was sucked back up into the trucks. Then they tried to consolidate again, this time in a corner so that in case they missed they could just leave it all in the gutter. Wild. Hilariously inefficient.
When the Power Goes Out, We Cook by Candlelight
Power outage? No problem. We’ll just cook with these joke sized candelabras.
Lizzie Leaves
This is long overdue… When Lizzie left we had a sweet going away party for her and grilled about 4 kilos of steak. A full fiorentia. It was a massive meal, to celebrate a wonderful woman with a massive heart of gold. Or something like that. Giovanni served as grill-master and his son, Georgio served as steak-eating-master. Oh, it was also a great way to celebrate Chanukkah!
