I was not raised in a typical American household. My mother is a trained cook, and while she never went professional, her ability to replicate restaurant dishes from one taste is frankly…
Author: emiglia
Soup
More than any other time of year, I feel like winter screams for a certain kind of food, and that food is made in a deep stock pot. Winter is soup time….
Lasagna… replaced.
When I first learned how to cook (that is, cook things besides Kraft Dinner, omelettes and grilled cheese) more than three years ago, one of the first things I learned how to…
Pasta
I’ve been being a student recently, and thus have had very little time to post. But I haven’t forgotten about you, dear reader! Here’s a recipe for a pasta dish I made…
London Calling
English food has gotten a bad rap. Sure, Nigella Lawson and Jamie Kennedy have started to right this wrong, but whereas people go to Paris to try some of the traditional bistro…
Spicy Roasted Chicken Thighs
I’ve been meaning to post about this chicken recipe for awhile. I got it off Luisa‘s site: it’s a recipe for spicy roasted chicken thighs. I accidentally forgot to mix the tomato…
Thanksgiving
I know… I know. I’ve been bad. It isn’t even that I haven’t been cooking! I have tons of recipes to share, plus I just got back from England, where I ate…
Rice Pudding
Sometimes, you just need something hot and delicious. I made myself rice pudding on one of those days recently, and of course, when I told my friend, she laughed at me. Aren’t…
Ratatouille
It’s a really good thing I got interested in cooking, or else I would have spent all of last July eating stuck-together spaghetti with a bit of jarred sauce. Let me explain….
Fried Eggs
What is it about fried eggs? They’re like a completely different animal from scrambled eggs or omelettes. There’s something about the barely cooked yolk breaking all over whatever else is on your…