Last week I saw an unstamped flyer in my mail slot. I don’t know about yours, but in my neighborhood that usually signals either lurking Jehovah’s Witnesses or some random realtor letting us know she has a client looking for a house just like ours and would we be interested in selling at this time?…
Pasta
Spaghetti with Pepperoni Marinara
“The presidency is not an office that automatically gives its occupant the power to order everyone around; much of what a president gets done depends on his or her ability to convince others to go along. That’s a lot easier if everyone understands that the president is going to be in office for a while.”…
Pasta with Turkish-Style Lamb, Eggplant, and Yogurt Sauce
“We don’t really celebrate the accomplishments of government employees. They exist in our society to take the blame.” –Michael Lewis, author of The Fifth Risk Yesterday was a typical Thursday morning, in that I sleepily grabbed my phone and read Slate Magazine’s Dear Prudence column. Then – also a somewhat typical Thursday occurrence – I…
Best Ever Pasta Puttanesca
“The fact that the dish emerged during the 1950s would seem to dispel any romantic notions of pasta alla puttanesca in nineteenth-century Neapolitan bordellos. Brothels were outlawed in Italy in 1958.” —Jeremy Parzen Good day, readers. Today’s post will have you travelling within the inner workings of my brain in a series of random thoughts,…
Wild Boar Ragu over Fresh Pasta Rags
“Making pasta for the first time felt like a mature act, on the level of hiring an accountant or buying A Love Supreme on 180-gram vinyl.” –Kevin Pang of The Takeout Making your own pasta is a joyous experience, a relaxing and satisfying escapist endeavor, the hallmark of true adulting. Why yes, this is going…
Whole Wheat Pasta with Brown-Buttered Mushrooms, Walnuts, and an Egg Yolk
“Hold me closer, Tony Danza. Count the head lice on the highway.” –Elton John, except not When the two human states of Wanting to Be Really Unproductive and Needing a Good Laugh happen to intersect, I personally prefer to peruse a comment thread about misheard song lyrics. Those things never fail to have me cracking…
