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Crouton’s To-Do List
- Swiss Chard w/Feta
- Marinated Flank Steak
- Slow-Cooker Pork Chops
- Grilled Leeks
- Eggs Benedict
- Dutch Baby
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Pasta alla Putanesca, that’s what!
Ingredients
1 lb fettuccini 3/4 stick butter 1/2 cup half & half 4-5 cloves garlic, sliced 12-24 large shrimp (21/25 count), deveined, heads & tails removed dried parsley flakes white pepper grated Parmesan cheese #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: [...]
Ingredients
Ingredients
6-8 veal scallops flour, salt, pepper 2 tbsp olive oil 3 tbsp butter 1 can beef stock 1 lemon, thinly sliced
Directions
Pound veal scallops, dredge in a mixture of flour, salt, and pepper, shake off excess, set aside. Heat 2 tbsp each of olive oil and butter in medium hot skillet. [...]
This is a great side dish for richly-flavored meat dishes, like scallopini al limone, veal marsala, or grilled Italian sausage.
Ingredients
Ingredients
1/2 cup heavy cream 1/2 stick butter white pepper grated Parmesan cheese fettuchini fresh parsley if desired
Directions
For the Alfredo sauce, melt butter over low heat in a small saucepan. Add [...]
Ditalini made her version of linguini with white clam sauce tonight, based on a Food Channel recipe that has long been one of our favorites.
Ingredients
Ingredients
1/4 cup olive oil 1 tsp red pepper flakes 4-6 cloves garlic, chopped 1 small can anchovy filets 2 tbsp fresh thyme (1 1/2 [...]
Here’s the original recipe, if you want the details.
Grilled artichoke, polenta with onions & peppers, Italian sausage
A few variations this time around. We recently bought a new gas grill, and in my zeal to protect it and make it last forever, I’m using grilling pans and sheets. You can see them in [...]
Crouton’s Chicken & Shrimp Fettucini Alfredo
Home from vacation and restaurant meals, back in the kitchen and hard at work. Tonight’s dinner? Crouton’s Chicken & Shrimp Fettucini Alfredo. Fast, easy, and satisfying.
It’s good to be home.
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This is my interpretation of spaghetti alla puttanesca (whore’s spaghetti), a simple yet robust pasta dish that’s easy to make with around-the-house ingredients (well, our house anyway). Don’t be squeamish about the anchovies . . . they add flavor to the dish, but without the strong salty taste people associate with anchovies on pizza. You [...]
Twenty years or more ago I started making a simple pasta dish for those nights we wanted something light and basically meatless: I’d fry some garlic and anchovies in olive oil, then mix it with spaghetti. At some point I thought it would be more flavorful with a little onion. In time I began to [...]
Yeah, I know, I’ve posted about these things before, here and here. But I felt like photoblogging last night’s dinner and, this time around, presenting it in recipe format. My method is to put the peppers on the grill first, since they take the longest to cook (about 15 minutes), then the sausage (about 5 [...]
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