Our friend Mike Schultz is leaving NY and moving to Oregon. we got together to wish him farewell and we went for dinner to this little restaurant close to our place called Zu-Zu ramen. a noodle soup place. I ordered the signature dish which the...
These were two nice big and thick rib eye steaks. they were to big for two to fit in a pan so i tried to sear one side of them one steak at a time and then put them on a baking sheet, salted and...
Claudia, getting creative with food. this is an hybrid opensandwich, pitapizza , salad-unwrapped. Chicken pieces, (not really grilled but the leftover chicken from the rice and chicken dinner from a couple of nights ago.) , a thin bed of the yellow rice, raw celery sticks, a...
this is an other one by Claudia. this is cooked shell pasta, placed on a baking dish, drenched with white cheese béchamel sauce and toped with a "a la vodka" tomato sauce from a jar and lots of freshly grated parmesan cheese, then baked in...
Claudia came up with this one. she cooked the rice with a little saffron in one pot and cooked the chicken in a a separate pan, marrying them after the rice was done so the chicken pieces didn't dry out....
Oh! Burgers again. Love them. I made a corn salad to go with it. roasted fresh corn, red bell peppers, mayo, onions and cilantro. it looked a little "loose" and "fork-able" next to the "hand-able" burger, so to equalize the handling characteristic of this dinner,...
these were frozen store bought goat cheese ravioli. we simmered them until tender and dressed simply with butter, garlic, olives and red peppers, and freshly grated dried pecorino cheese....
we used the frozen tenderloin stakes we got the other day. I cooked them under the broiler and dressed with a butter and shallot sauce. The potatoes were "Idaho" quartered lengthwise, steamed until partially cooked and finished in a hot skillet until crisp and done....
oh meatballs, pasta and sauce. this dish is so easy to make and so satisfying . lots os freshly grated parmesan cheese and sprinkled with fresh copped parsley....
Claudia found these great sea bass fillets that I prepared by crusting it with breadcrumbs , sprayed some olive oil and baked in the oven at 300º for 15 minutes, served with a caper-butter-shallots and white wine sauce and a side of stuffed baked potato. these...