Baltimore Dining Examiner

Summer Pasta

If you have two cups of flour, a pinch of salt and two eggs you can have homemade pasta in no time.  I found this video on homemade pasta excellent and just wanted to share.  For your sauce take your wonderfully ripe summer tomatoes- chopped, fresh basil-chiffonade or torn in pieces, smashed whole garlic clove, extra virgin olive oil and freshly grated  Parmigiano-Regianno cheese and mix them together for a room temperature sauce (you can add a pinch of the pasta boiling water)- no cooking and you'll be in food heaven.

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Light, Cool, Refreshing Italian Salad

We're into the hottest weeks of summer and all I can think about is not turning on my stove.  When I was in Italy, one of my favorite dishes was a fennel and orange salad.  If you have never had fennel, it has... Read More
Topics: Reminiscences , Recipes , Video

AGA, Me and Recipes

It was my first, you can remember your first, you know it was awkward, a lot of fumbling around but the deed got done.  As a recently ordained AGA stove demonstrator, I lost my AGA cherry yesterday when I did my first cooking demonstration... Read More
Topics: Recipes , Asian Food , Dara's Fabulous Adventures , Video