Savor the Flavor
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 day plague and definitely a dark chapter of our human civilization. There are over 500 million people all over the world living in complete poverty, and something even more dramatic that over 15 million children die of starvation very year!
I believe there is strength in numbers. That’s why I joined Bloggers Unite For Hunger and Hope and Heifer International that put together an event to raise awareness and call an end to world hunger, on April 29, by writing a post on this subject.
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.
Maybe because it is so simple to put it together, or sparks a digestive memory of a two-course traditional Romanian home made meal on Sundays, where chicken soup with egg-noodles of some sort was always on the menu – or who knows why and not important. The point is that you can make Pasta Al Brodo in 20 minutes and have a 5-star restaurant result.
Of course the secret ingredient that secures success is a good quality home made chicken broth. More on that in another post.
Mititei or also known as Mici (translated meaning the plural for little, very small) is nothing else but the Romanian version of the glorious hamburger in America.
First I’d like to thank all of you for the messages of concern you sent regarding my mysterious disappearance that left some of you wondering what is going on with me. It is good to know that I have friends out there in the Blogosphere! Thank you!
It was all because of an intense period of preparation and practice for a Broadway musical called The Wedding Singer, where I was hired to play (loud) guitars in the orchestra (band) pit. Although it was a fun experience, sounded extremely well, it was a strenuous time for me because I had to learn about 23 songs by sight reading which proved me to be a little rusty since I am more of a guitar player that plays ‘by ear’ than after a score, etc. But hey, I pulled it off, and here I am ready to do some cooking!
This brings me to my second point and more relevant for this blog:
Blanket For Dates!
Remember last year’s 40st B-Day present from my wife, the class for Irresistible Hors d’ oeuvres at Chicago’s Chopping Block cooking school? Well it turned out to be a blast. It was a nice night, we prepared interesting Hors d’ Oeuvres, but one of them really irresistible me. They were the bacon wrapped dates.
A delicious finger food appetizer that’s very easy to prepare. Here is the recipe with simple tips.
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