The November 2009 Daring Bakers Challenge was chosen and hosted by Lisa Michele of Parsley, Sage, Desserts and Line Drives. She chose the Italian Pastry, Cannolo (Cannoli is plural), using the cookbooks Lidia’s Italian-American Kitchen by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and The Sopranos Family Cookbook: As Compiled by Artie Bucco by Allen Rucker; recipes by Michelle Scicolone, as ingredient/direction guides. She…
Parma Chicken
… Don’t be sad. … when you see a cometpainting the horizon redremember: that is me still,crazy, flying and living. To Stonoga, who is no longer with us. ——————————————————————————– Parma Chicken(original recipe) 600 g chicken breasts, cut into pieces400 g button mushrooms (only the caps, without the stems)100 g bacon, cut into strips40 g grated Parmesan cheese200 ml tomato puresaltground…
Serban Ethno Food Festival
Here are a few photos from The Serbian Ethno Food Festival that I went to yesterday. Dried and smoked meat products – sausages, prosciutto, kulen, sudžuk… by Zlatiborac. The mushy thing on the right is Žmjare, Vlachs’ dish made of corn meal, leek and sheep meat cook for a very long time. Tastes fantastic and looks like melted cheddar. Dried…
It’s this blog’s second birthday today! I made this cake two months ago, but decided not to post about it until today. Wanted to share something really exceptional with you today, and this cake is exactly that. It was made somewhere in 19th century to honor Pál Antal Esterházy, minister in Austro-Hungarian Empire. And although it became one of the…