Fiddlehead Ferns and Italian food.

This week I am visiting the family and we have gotten together a few times to prepare some meals together. This night we decided to make some homemade linguini and pair it with broccoli rabe, fresh tomato, sausage, and a white wine sauce. Unfortunately these are not my dad’s homemade sausages, but my sister and [...]

Lobster roll! Wait, what?

So apparently the people in Maine have so much lobster they don’t know what to do with it! I found these scattered around Camden and Rockland Maine like hot dog stands! It’s the most decadent thing ever! I highly recommend getting one if you have the chance. These were on old fashioned toasted hot dog [...]

Pacifico – Nuevo Latino

This week I am heading up to Maine for the grand opening of my sister and brother in law’s art gallery [shameless plug]. Seeing as my family eats really well, I brought my camera with the expectation of talking lots of beautiful shots. On the way up to Maine from Philadelphia, we had a planned [...]

Italian Market Festival

Where I live in Philadelphia, I am about five blocks for the Italian Market. It’s a great resource for meats and cheeses from purveyors who take serious pride in their products. Often when I am working from home I will journey down there to get some fresh cheese for panini or pastas to make a [...]

BBQ at the parents

I had not planned on posting anything before I knock out this takoyaki recipe that I keep talking about, but this barbecue looked just too delicious to pass on. The upper image is a pork loin and the lower images are pork butt and a homemade slaw. The loin was a more expensive cut of [...]