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Wander down any dried pasta aisle at the supermarket nowadays, and you'll likely find at least a dozen possibilities in terms of shapes. Head to Italy, and that number multiplies tenfold (or at least it seems that way). Every region in the country has been... Read More >

Categories: Food & Recipes, What We're Eating

What We’re Eating: G.H.Cretors Popcorn Well known Chicago popcorn company, G.H. Cretors recently sent samples of  5 varieties of gourmet popcorn for our staff to sample. Family Circle staff are the best tasters. Really, they are ! ( Later on in the day it looked liked a swarm of locusts had invaded the area where we had place the samples). We tasted caramel, kettle, cheese, caramel nut and Chicago mix. All... Read More >

Categories: Food & Recipes, What We're Eating

As a rule, the simplest pastas are the best. Pasta e Ceci ( pasta and chickpeas) is a perfect example of cucina povera ( peasant food) - simple, inexpensive and very satisfying. Usually I use a mix of whatever opened boxes of dry pasta are laying around my pantry. I recently saw a recipe for this that used a shape I wasn't familiar with, Pantacce Toscane. It... Read More >

Categories: Food & Recipes, What We're Eating

What We’re Eating: Caramelized Onion and Sun-dried Tomato Pizza Last Friday's pizza was so memorable that it calls for an encore this Friday here in Tyrrellville. There isn't much to it. Basically a typical store-bought pizza dough (about 1 pound), pizza sauce (I used about half a can of Don Pepino's pizza sauce because it tastes very much like what local pizza joints use) and shredded mozzarella (about 2 cups). What made this pie special was... Read More >

Categories: Food & Recipes, What We're Eating

Emeril’s Secret for the Perfect Po’Boy Emeril Lagasse was in New York City today to introduce his JCPenney cookware collection. To show off his signature pieces—a self-filtering deep fryer and programmable pressure cooker—Emeril whipped up two of my favorite dishes: spicy gumbo and a melt-in-your-mouth po'boy. While the gumbo was amazing, it was the sandwich's succulent shrimp... Read More >

Categories: Food & Recipes, What We're Eating