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As mentioned in the most recent Men's Health magazine, Philadelphia is a great sandwich town. While cheesesteaks and hoagies are among the most popular sandwiches with many of our tourists, there is no doubt that a tender, juicy roast pork sandwich i (read full article)
Ingredients:2 bunches of fresh broccoli rabe – cleaned with hard stems cut off8 oz. of feta cheese – crumbled5-6 cloves of garlic – crushed and chopped1 cup - Italian style croutons – crumbledRed pepper flakesOlive oil – for drizzling1 box (read full article)
Fiddlehead ferns, so named for the shape they grow into, are a delicious addition to your spring vegetable repertoire. Similar in flavor to asparagus, with a slightly bitter finish akin to broccoli rabe, they have a wonderful texture and bite to them (read full article)
I recently had the pleasure of dining at Cafe Allegre in Madison, CT. It's a comfortable yet elegant restaurant located close to the Madison Green on Main Street. The menu is Italian - American, featuring well executed standards such as c (read full article)
During our early courtship, the Mr., back then the boyfriend, took me to a neighborhood pizza joint on the upper westside. Out of curiosity I ordered a slice of the whole wheat pizza. My tastebuds wondered what they'd done to deserve such an assault. (read full article)
Cime di rapa are a European vegetable whose English name is broccoli raab or broccoli rabe. Each Italian region calls the leafy greens in a different way too. In Campania Napoli they’re named friarielli, in Toscana rapini. In Rome, they’re brocco (read full article)
Cime di rapa are a European vegetable whose English name is broccoli raab or broccoli rabe. Each Italian region calls the leafy greens in a different way too. In Campania they’re named friarielli, in Toscana rapini. In Rome, they’re broccoletti a (read full article)
Cime di rapa are a European vegetable whose English name is broccoli raab or broccoli rabe. Each Italian region calls the leafy greens in a different way too. In Campania Napoli they’re named friarielli, in Toscana rapini. In Rome, they’re brocco (read full article)
Flying British Airways? Bring Your Own Food British Airways is in a midst of a strike. As a result, services are being cut due to a bare bones staff. So, meals will be cold, no children’s menu will be available and vegetarians are being urged to (read full article)
My trip this Sunday to the Farmer’s Market was awesome! Spring has definitely sprung and the variety was overwhelming. Every available stall was filled with a farmer, and I enjoyed just walking through and visiting with some of my favorites. He (read full article)
Storie di pesto – Penne con pesto alle cime di rapa e gamberi Lately, I have been too busy and hundred things to take care of, which in my world means no sleep and no time for anything including cooking and of course, deep under eye circles. T (read full article)
Ingredients:1 bunch of broccoli rabe1- 15.5 oz. can of cannelloni beans-drained4 tablespoons Olive Oil4 cloves of garlic – crushed & chopped½ tsp red pepper flakes½ cup of sun-dried tomatoes – chopped coarse¼ cup of chicken broth1 tablespo (read full article)
Wow. What a start to 2010. For me, 2009 ended with the news that I needed open heart surgery as soon as possible. This meant at the start of 2010 I found myself in the hospital.While my heart woes were something I was born with, I wasn’t aware of t (read full article)
Papa Diva's mother often says: "If you're not living in New York City, you are camping out." While this may still be somewhat true, there are places in the provinces where one can dine very well indeed. The "provinces" refer to any area outside the (read full article)
One of my favorite ways to prepare vegetables, just about any vegetable at all, is to roast them with a simple drizzle of olive oil and a sprinkle of Kosher or sea salt. Roasting a vegetable allows the natural juices to caramelize and add a sweetness (read full article)
Last week I was in the mood for a hearty, old world pasta dish with lots of zip. I found the recipe for broccoli rabe and pancetta in an old Food & Wine magazine. I decided to add it to cavatelli (aka 'gavadeels'). Very tasty and very filling. The bi (read full article)
Fast meals, convenience and shortcuts mean a health or money compromise, right? Wrong. Take a look at the recipes offered on Half Hour Meals and you’ll find that more often than not, the opposite is true. Check out recipes like Broccoli Rabe wi (read full article)
Is there any meat more satisfying than sausages? If there is, I haven't found it. And, in this typically Roman dish, sausages marry particularly well with broccoletti, the cruciferous vegetable known in English as 'broccoli rabe'. The slight bitterne (read full article)
During the week between Christmas and New Year’s, I became friends with the couch again. It had been a while since we’d spent time together, but we caught up and became comfortable pretty quickly. I don’t think I ever got around to napping, but (read full article)
This was the fourth and final week of my "Healthy Cooking in a Hurry" class, and I'm sad to say farewell. It's really starting to feel like fall (well... with the snow today, kinda like winter, actually), so this latest batch of recipes really worke (read full article)