Pasta Basta (or home made pasta)
June 29, 2009 – 9:27 pm | 4 Comments

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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A Birthday Menu
June 5, 2009 – 1:50 pm | 5 Comments
Strawberry Short Cake

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.

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Kitchen Revamp - Day 5
May 29, 2009 – 1:34 pm | 5 Comments
Kitchen Revamp - Day 5

Mounting the wall and base cabinets, plus the butcher block counter-top in our kitchen remodeling series.

Kitchen Revamp (Day 3 and 4)
May 26, 2009 – 10:31 am | 5 Comments
Kitchen Revamp (Day 3 and 4)

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 …

Kitchen Revamp - Day 2
May 21, 2009 – 9:45 am | 5 Comments
Kitchen Revamp - Day 2

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 Revamp Day 1
May 13, 2009 – 10:25 pm | 5 Comments
Kitchen Revamp Day 1

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 on Foodbuzz Spotlight!
May 9, 2009 – 9:39 pm | 3 Comments
Mamaliga on Foodbuzz Spotlight!

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!

NPR’s How Low Can You Go $10 Meals - Farfalle With Potatoes
May 6, 2009 – 9:29 pm | 8 Comments
NPR’s How Low Can You Go $10 Meals - Farfalle With Potatoes

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.

Bloggers Unite For Hunger and Hope
April 29, 2009 – 9:54 am | 3 Comments
Bloggers Unite For Hunger and Hope

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 …

A Tale of Morels
April 25, 2009 – 2:40 pm | 10 Comments
A Tale of Morels

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?

Home Brewed Maple Syrup
April 22, 2009 – 10:50 am | 8 Comments
Home Brewed Maple Syrup

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!

Pasta Al Brodo - A Quick One
April 8, 2009 – 11:06 pm | 5 Comments
Pasta Al Brodo - A Quick One

Even if there’s nothing Romanian about it, seems like Pasta Al Brodo became a Sunday lunch tradition on our household.