Why be satisfied in using only store bought pasta? Why not giving a try at making your own pasta at home?
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Strawberry Short Cake
As every caring husband would do, I wanted to get the perfect Birthday gift to my dear wife, cooking the perfect meal, make her day, etc., and as every procrastinator husband does, I realized half day into it that I did NOT have a plan!
Luckily I went grocery shopping a day before so I had the ingredients but I had to improvise and this is the menu I came up with, preparing the whole dinner in little less than 3 hours.
So I was thinking slightly Italian given the fact that she likes Mediterranean simplicity, taste and colors.
Mounting the wall and base cabinets, plus the butcher block counter-top in our kitchen remodeling series.
Basically two days of lightly sanding and then applying oil-based polyurethane. All wrapped up in no more than one hour in the morning, then left to dry at least 24 hours.
In the end, we were …
I spent this next day of our kitchen remodeling in a bubble of dust produced by the drum sander. It was time to sand the floor.
Kitchen remodeling on a budget. The chronicles from start to finish of how a kitchen can get a face lift with only $2,500!
Mamaliga’s main chef Gabi Bucataru was featured on the main page of the online foodie community Foodbuzz.com, and exciting social networking that’s all about cooking, sharing, and getting to know more people who are passionate about food!
How to cook a delicious Farfalle With Potatoes for under $5! This is for NPR’s NPR’s How Low Can You Go, $10 Meals challenge.
It is still unbelievable that while some fortunate geographical regions lavish in food abundance (me included), other parts of the world still struggle with day to day survival.
World hunger can be easily considered a modern …
Check this out. My wife, who’s doing the gardening in our household, found three Morel mushrooms in our back yard! What’s going on? Are we sitting on a gold mine and not know it?
Don’t be discouraged that you only have two maple trees in your yard! You can extract enough sap from them to brew a nice jar of maple syrup that’s more delicious than any other store bought versions!
Even if there’s nothing Romanian about it, seems like Pasta Al Brodo became a Sunday lunch tradition on our household.
Bacon wrapped dates, A delicious finger food appetizer that’s very easy to prepare. Here is the recipe with simple tips.
While growing up in Romania for 33 years I got to assume certain beliefs as being undoubtedly right and incontestable. It took a wife from the American continent to pull these things out of me and bring things …
Check this out. My wife, who’s doing the gardening in our household, found three Morel mushrooms in our back yard! What’s going on? Are we sitting on a gold mine and not know it?
Well Ladies and Gentlemen,
What looked like a failed cooking afternoon turned around unexpectedly into a success story. The Sarmale (stuffed cabbage rolls) turned out as it should - the rolls didn’t fall apart, they remained …
This was the Happy Day! The day when everything came together. The fun. The Grand Finale. The day you can hug everyone on the street, then get arrested for being weird.
How to cook a delicious Farfalle With Potatoes for under $5! This is for NPR’s NPR’s How Low Can You Go, $10 Meals challenge.
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