Today we thought we’d take you along on a Wine Tour in Tuscany, bring Guanciale home and make the best Carbonara ever! Carbonara: “Hot pasta tossed with a creamy sauce of raw beaten eggs, accentuated with crisp bits of Guanciale and finished with a shower…

This dish may be the least expensive meal we’ve ever featured. This recipe has so much going for it. It’s hard to how budget-friendly it is. The total cost of the dish was $15.51.  Break that down and if you’re serving four, it’s $3.82 per…

Loco Moco and Holoholo make a Trip to Hawai’i even more appealing… I don’t need to go into the reasons why. I am sure you too would love to bury your feet in the sand—if not your whole head. So today, we’ll dream of the…

This Boston Baker knows her way around a Sugar Bun! Ask Bobby Flay! When we first published Joanne Chang’s Sticky Bun recipe, we heard from Bobby Flay himself.  Before there was ‘Beat Bobby Flay’ on the Food Network there was Bobby Flay’s “Throwdown”. Joanne had…

If there’s one bad thing about Food Blogging it’s this: You never get to eat the same thing twice. Once it’s out in the blogosphere, it’s cooked. Literally. Today’s recipe haunted us—it was so good! And it was in our old recipe format. What a…

This great stew has a surprise ingredient we weren’t entirely sure about. Our friend Roger is a great home cook.  And after our Top Ten Stews post, (https://chewingthefat.us.com/2022/01/our-top-ten-stews-perfect-for-cold-winter-nights.html) Roger sent us this recipe, so we knew it had to be good. Lots and lots of…

BENGALS OR RAMS, NEXT SUNDAY’S WINNER IS THE CHICKEN WING! Of all food facts, the one that never ceases to amaze is this: On Super Bowl Sunday, 1.42 billion chicken wings will be consumed. That’s the National Chicken Council’s prediction and they ought to know.…

If you’re looking for a great plant-based dinner, you’ve come to the right place. This easy, meatless pasta dinner uses only 6 ingredients and takes 30 minutes to make. Every item is store-bought from the pasta itself to jarred marinara sauce. You can use any…

You just can’t make a bad Cioppino. Cioppino is probably the most flexible fish stew on earth.  And it packs a wonderful punch of flavor in every bite.  It tastes of the sea itself.  And then there’s the richness of tomatoes, the anise flavor of…

Here’s a Burger you can eat with or without a bun We’re always up for a great burger. So when we came across this recipe, we jumped.  It packs a terrific punch of flavor, in this case solidly planted in Southeast Asia. There’s lemongrass, ginger,…

Although the gigantic plate of sweet indulgences may lead you to believe otherwise… This is an account of my November voyage on Viking Jupiter as we sailed from Rome (Civitavecchia to be precise) up the coast to Florence and Pisa (Livorno to be precise).  Then…

I’VE JUST READ THE WEATHER FORECAST…IT’S STEW WEATHER AND HERE ARE OUR TOP TEN And it looks like it’s time to hunker down and stay put this weekend.  And while we’re at it, what’s better than stew?  Never mind the result is inevitably warming, comforting,…

The only reminder of your Mom’s Tuna Casserole are the Potato Chips I announced to Andrew that we were having Tuna Casserole for dinner. His mother, his sister Lauren wrote, “made tuna casserole for all of us when we were children and she used potato…

Wonderfully aromatic, this creamy chicken pasta dish gets a flavor boost from an Italian “Soffritto”. I put pasta on our table at least once a week. To me, very little is as satisfying as fresh or dried pasta coated with a great Italian ragu of…