I’ve talked about clams before. I like them. A lot. Okay, more than a lot. It’s a problem. Sometimes, they’re all I can think about. When I get it in my mind that I want them, nothing else will suffice. It’s like a nervous tick. I’m sure it has to do with my childhood. [...]
Archive | September, 2010
On Family Tables, Upstairs (and Downstairs) Neighbors, and Insatiable Clam Obsessions (Spaghetti with Clams)
Posted on Tuesday, September 28, 2010.
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Getting a Little Territorial Over Tomato Cucumber Salad
Posted on Wednesday, September 22, 2010.
A kid’s universe really unfolds when they start to see things in the world that they’d previously only known at home. Like the first time I’d heard people speaking Sicilian who weren’t my family or neighbors. Obviously, I knew we hadn’t invented the language. I understood that millions of immigrants brought it with them [...]
Posted in Salads2 Comments
Sunday Football Apple Crisp
Posted on Wednesday, September 15, 2010.
It’s September, and although it’s still pushing 80 degrees outside, we’re eager for fall in our house. Let’s just ignore the weather, shall we? There’s so much more to get excited about. For one thing, football is here. While I don’t care about the sport at all, I love the cozy feeling that a football [...]
Posted in Desserts5 Comments
Gone Fig Pickin’
Posted on Friday, September 10, 2010.
The figs keep flowing in my parents’ New Jersey garden, and this week we finally went to the source. Joe had never been fig picking, and my dear, short parents (Mom is 4′ 10″ and Dad is 5′ 3″) had a surplus of overripe figs on the tree that they just couldn’t reach. So it [...]
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Bigger than Christmas: The Lost Art of Jarring Tomato Sauce
Posted on Wednesday, September 8, 2010.
This is it, guys. Arguably the biggest day of the year in our family (or at least, it used to be). It’s Saturday in late August. Earlier in the week, Dad packed the station wagon with bushels of plum tomatoes from Brooklyn. Blankets were outstretched on the basement floor. The bushels were let loose and [...]
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Figs are here!
Posted on Saturday, September 4, 2010.
It’s that glorious time of year….figs have arrived! My parents just picked these plump babies from their tree in New Jersey. We wait all year for them, then spend August and September eating figs full-time. I feel a subtle obligation to make something fancy and then share my prolific recipe. But honestly, we never let [...]
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The Highlight of Every Bensonhurst Kid’s Summer: The Santa Rosalia Feast
Posted on Wednesday, September 1, 2010.
This week I introduced my dear friend C to the Feast of Santa Rosalia, Bensonhurt’s annual street fair honoring the patron saint of Palermo, Sicily. “The feast” was the highlight of our summers growing up. Yes, we loved getting out of the city, hiking, swimming, etc., but nothing thrilled us more than a sticky August [...]
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Dad’s Sour Cream Cake
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Reinvented Hostess Cupcakes, for the Boy Who Eats Gas Station Pie
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The Feast of Eleven Joes–Saint Joseph’s Day Zeppole (Sfinge di San Giuseppe)
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Biscuits with Strangers
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A Salted Caramel Chocolate Gelato Emergency
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