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sausage

  • Lamb Merguez with Eggplant Jam and green Olives

    Lamb Merguez with Eggplant Jam and green Olives

    Sometimes you make dinner, and everyone nods in approval, eating pleasantly and saying, “This is very good. Nice job.” That’s most of the time. Then, every so often, you make a dinner that has people piping up a bit more enthusiastically. “Ooooh this is delicious,” they say. “Where did you get the recipe?” But only…

  • How To Host An Indoor Clambake

    How To Host An Indoor Clambake

    My usual dinner party process goes like this: a day or two before a dinner party, I grab a handful of cookbooks off my towering cookbook shelf and casually thumb through them. The goal is not to frantically search for the perfect recipe, it’s to let the perfect recipe come to me. Usually that happens…

  • Eggs in Tomato Sauc with Sausage and Basil

    Eggs in Tomato Sauc with Sausage and Basil

    As you probably know, by now, I’m a pasta-loving fool. My blog has 78 recipes for pasta and risotto in its archives, so you know I take my pasta-eating seriously. Sadly, my pasta love is now at odds with my spring-time desire to get in shape. I’ve been sticking to my gym routine for two…

  • A Home Cook’s Take on Mozza’s Orecchiette with Fennel Sausage and Swiss Chard

    A Home Cook’s Take on Mozza’s Orecchiette with Fennel Sausage and Swiss Chard

    If you know your pasta, you know that the image and the title here don’t match; that’s because, for some reason, they weren’t selling orecchiette the day I went to Gelson’s. I almost threw in the towel but then I thought, “Why don’t I find another pasta shape that’s kind of like orecchiette?” Which is…

  • One Bag of Lentils, Two Dinners

    One Bag of Lentils, Two Dinners

    There are two kinds of people who cook at home: the first kind chooses an elaborate recipe, buys all of the ingredients, spends hours cooking it, invites friends to eat it, spends hours cleaning it, and takes the rest of the week off. The other kind has long-range vision, makes a large batch of something…

  • Birthday Lasagna

    Birthday Lasagna

    For Craig’s birthday this year, I didn’t take him to a fancy dinner as I’ve done in years past (see here, here and here). This year his birthday had two components: (1) a dinner at home with his favorite foods; and (2) a weekend trip to Palm Springs. You’ll hear about Palm Springs later this…