Vegetables
Vegetable recipes
Ditalini’s Fried Potatoes & Onions
These are the thinly-sliced potatoes and onions Ditalini serves with paprika schnitzel. Naturally, they will go well with almost anything.
Chicken-Fried Steak & Garlic Mashed Potatoes w/Cracked-Pepper Gravy & Green Beans
Guido & Sophia Trattoria gave me a late Christmas present last weekend: A Cowboy in the Kitchen, a Texas-themed cookbook by Grady Spears. When I cracked the covers the very first time, it opened to page 32 and a recipe…
Jerk Pork Medallions with Brussels Sprouts & Potatoes
I felt like cooking last night, and I also felt like something new, so I decided to marinate pork medallions in jerk sauce and grill them. Potatoes and Brussels sprouts sounded like the perfect side dishes. It wasn’t too hard,…
Smoking on the Road: Cookblogging on the Installment Plan
Crouton and Ditalini are in Las Vegas, visiting our kids, Baguette and Escargot. Baguette and I are smoking turkey breast and sausage today; we’ll serve it with Swiss chard, sautéed with bacon, onions, and feta cheese. We think it’ll be…
Italian Family Barbecue Revisited
Here’s the original recipe, if you want the details. 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. …
Breaking In the New Grill
At last, Ditilani and I have a new gas grill, a big black Weber patriotically made in America, and what better way to break in our new American grill than a couple of big bloody American steaks? Here are some…
Friday Night Grilling
Dinner & a DVD always make for a nice Friday evening. But grilling dinner makes the difference between Friday and TGIF! The DVD was Pride & Glory. Okay, but nothing to write home about. Dinner, on the other hand, was…
TGIF Menu
Which stands for “To the grill . . . it’s Friday!” around maison deMenthe. Friday’s menu: grilled veggies, grilled zucchini & squash, grilled boneless ribeye steaks. I’ve described grilling veggies before, here. Last night I used small potatoes, chopped carrots,…
Parmesan Chicken with Sautéed Green Beans & Tomato/Mozzarella Salad
I was on deck for dinner last night so I decided to prepare one of Ditalini’s favorites: Parmesan chicken. Sautéed green beans and tomato/mozzarella salad seemed like they would go well with the chicken, and you know what? They did.…
A Night for Grilling
An old friend is down from Las Vegas for the weekend. We ate out Friday night and had a party Saturday night, so tonight, the last night of his visit, will be a quiet dinner at home. Ditalini’s making a…