Ground Italian sausage in marinara is a no-brainer pasta sauce. But replace the pasta with portobellos and you have an adorable pre-portioned meal. Start by browning crumbled Italian sausage in a pan (mine had broccoli rabe in it – yum). You’ll need about 1 sausage link per portobello mushroom cap. When it’s almost done cooking,…
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House of Lasagna
Anyplace called House of Lasagna has got my attention piqued. I loooove lasagna. It’s one of my favorite dishes to make and a sure favorite to eat. The thing is, it’s usually an afterthought at Italian restaurants. The focus is always on the penne or the chicken parm. Strangely enough, even though this restaurant has…
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Pizza Spaghetti Squash
I love pizza but feel like a terrible person if I serve it during the week. I have to set some guidelines; otherwise, like I would with mac and cheese, I could eat pizza every single day. As a substitute I used a spaghetti squash as the vessel for all that delicious pizza flavor. I…
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PSA: Di Palo’s Fine Foods
Sometimes I think there’s a place you’ve just got to know about and my Public Service Announcements (PSAs) will give you the full skinny. The Little Italy neighborhood of Manhattan is not my first choice for legit Italian. I would rather go to Arthur Avenue in the Bronx for quality markets or Piccolo Angolo in…
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Prosciutto Wrapped Chicken with Pesto
I found a jar of pesto with quinoa at Trader Joe’s and have been keeping it in the pantry until just the right moment when I needed to quickly pull together a meal on a weeknight. I had to spend the evening cleaning my apartment (boringggg but enough procrastinating, already!) so I wanted a meal…
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Baker & Co.
I am so lucky to have the time between Xmas and New Years off of work. Go out drinking on a Monday? Sure! Albert and I were meeting crew at Bleeker Street Bar at 3 PM for drinks and darts, which gave us plenty of time to head to the West Village side of Bleeker…
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Chicken Parm
When Albert made a special request for chicken parm for our Chrismukkah gift exchange, I had to learn how to make it quickly. Based on all the recipes I looked at, it seemed this is the kind of dish that you can make more complicated with herbs and frying…or easy with baking and some help…
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Pasta with Salami
Instead of having a cheese plate for supper two nights in a row, I recently incorporated some leftover Hungarian salami into a pasta dish. I boiled up some spinach and chive linguine (Trader Joe’s) and tossed it with some store-bought marinara. The trick here is to put in enough sauce to just coat the pasta.…
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Fiat Café
I don’t usually think of SoHo as a place for cheap eating. Sure, you can find plenty of cafés in the area that aren’t overly expensive…but a straight up deal? Not so much. I am singing a different tune now that I’ve found Fiat Café. Pretty much nothing on the menu costs more than $8.50.…
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Pesto and Sausage Bake
When you think of baked ziti, it’s always marinara and mozz. You’d be amazed at what a difference switching to pesto can make. It’s still the same process of opening up a jar of store-bought sauce…the only difference is the sauce being green instead of red. Cook up 1/2 a box of ziti (this recipe…
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Peaches to Apples 