European, Boil, Main dish Recetas

Sicilian Eggplant & Ricotta Pasta

This is yet another wonderful Italian recipe that I've adapted from Marcella Hazan's classic "Essentials of…

Simple Pasta with Garlic & Olive Oil

This is a classic recipe that is so simple to make but always delicious. You can serve this as a side dish to…

Spaetzle

This is a simple and delicious recipe for Spaetzle. My friend Helmut normally does not add oil to his Spaetzle, but we did last night because it…

Top SF Chronicle Recipe: Pasta with Broccoli and Spicy Sausage

Our good friend Linda Hansen saved this top recipe from the SF Chronicle in 2004 and it has become one of her…

Lemon-butter Linguini with Peppery Shirmp

It always surprises me when black pepper is used in such quantity that it makes a dish truly spicy, since we so…

Pasta with Cauliflower and Anchovy Sauce

This is a wonderful, mild flavored pasta we've adapted from Marcella Hazan. I know it sounds like an odd…

Ricotta and Greens or Spinach Pasta

This is another excellent dish that takes advantage of delicious and healthy greens. This is a Sicilian dish…

Terrific Ground Beef Stroganoff

Learn to make a flavorful, creamy ground beef stroganoff.

Shrimp Pasta with Sun dried tomatoes

Great winter-time shrimp pasta dish with sun dried tomato and cream sauce (serves 4-6)

Lobster Pasta with Herb Cream Sauce (Pasta con Astice in Crema di Erbe)

Dreamy Linguini

I actually dreamt this recipe one night. I have very vivid and often lucid dreams and this isn't the first time something like this came to me in a…

Potato dumplings

This is traditional Ukrainian dish. It is not easy as it requires some hand work. But ingredients are cheap. The dish is light and goes well with…

Vareniki with cherry and sugar

Sour cherry with sugar in pastry makes the dish very tasty and reminds me the days in childhood when with my little friends we winced from picked…

Pasta alla norma

This, one of my favorite summertime pastas, comes from Sicily. Along with pasta con le sarde, it is perhaps the most famous of Sicilian pasta…

White Sauce Veal Stew