I’m a really awesome girlfriend.  Due to my dear Italian boyfriend’s culinary preferences, the past year I’ve been choking down a lot of sausages (hehe) and peppers.  Not to mention making homemade cavatelli.  And peanut butter cookies, which I don’t really even like.  Let’s not even talk about all that ball handling.  (And really, why [...]

So I decided to stop being a lazy ass and actually cook something.  I’d like to say it was for me, or even for you guys, but really, I just felt bad for my kid.  Plus my little (three year old) sister was over, and really there’s nothing that better passes the time than an [...]

I’m not fancy. I’m fairly sure everything featured so far has been more than do-able for the home cook. And what could be simpler than Caprese?  Sweet, juicy tomatoes, cool, creamy mozzarella, and that bright, sunny basil.  Really, what could possibly make it better?  Well, ladies and gentlemen, that would be the answer to all [...]

So remember how I’m moving and life sucks ’cause I have nothing in my house?  And then I ran out of butter?  It was cause of this.  This tomato sauce.  This crazy ingenious lady, Marcella Hazan, thought to put butter in her basic tomato sauce.  This’ll be short and sweet–it is so, so good and [...]