Tag: paisano
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July 11, 2007 02:51 PM EDT --
I was probably 26 at the time. I wasn't married but was living with my then-future and now-past wife. She and I met when I was managing Pier 1 Imports in Knoxville and I hired her as assistant manager. . . .
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September 19, 2007 02:09 PM EDT --
Casseroles get a bad rap, and many of them deserve it. But I happen to love them. You mix up a bunch of stuff (avoiding any canned soup mixes, which are the single greatest reason for the bad rap) dump . . .
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March 12, 2008 03:07 PM EDT --
A few years ago I purchased American Classics by the editors of Cook's Illustrated magazine. The book is a good modern reference to such traditional favorites as Chicken Pot Pie, Parker . . .
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March 26, 2008 11:42 AM EDT --
O nce upon a time I was the lead singer in an Indonesian rock band in Cairo, Egypt. Bear with me, it's a bit complicated.
At the time my parents were teaching at the American University in Cairo . . .
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June 12, 2008 12:40 PM EDT --
S upposedly Beef Stroganoff was created by a chef in Saint Petersburg for a culinary competition held in the 1890s. Although the dish was almost certainly named for Count Paul Stroganoff, a Russian noble . . .
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August 08, 2007 05:21 PM EDT --
The pulled pork I made for Dad's birthday was juicy, succulent, and packed with hickory flavor. The sauce had a tad too much vinegar in it (I've tweaked the recipe) but still set off the pork beautifully. . . .
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August 22, 2007 04:15 PM EDT --
"Where's the tamarind?"
"Tamarind?"
"Tamarind!"
The Paisano was now looking in cabinets that held only pots and pans, perhaps assuming I had . . .
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September 05, 2007 11:21 PM EDT --
Thinking back on it, I decided the Paisano's irritation about my lack of tamarind was actually a complement. He had assumed my pantry was complete -- I couldn't remember his ever needing an herb . . .
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October 03, 2007 12:45 PM EDT --
Sunday morning, two weeks ago, I awoke in a dark bedroom. Never bright even on the sunniest days, my bedroom was particularly dim on this morning. I could hear rumbling in the distance and outside . . .
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April 09, 2008 02:38 PM EDT --
S pring arrived here in Knoxville this past weekend. I was out running errands two days ago (Before Spring) and it was rainy and chilly. The lawns were still rather brown and although the daffodils, hydrangeas, . . .
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April 11, 2008 05:31 PM EDT --
I pictured a mound of overlapping circles of golden-brown potatoes strewn with sprigs of green. Instead, I ended up with a single circle of potatoes surrounding a bird's nest of potato strips. Such . . .
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November 15, 2009 01:52 PM EST --
S quash soup is a great idea, but too often it fails in execution. It's often banal, watery, and insipid. Something more like flavored squash juice than a true soup with soup's promise of savor, . . .
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January 30, 2007 03:04 PM EST --
Paisano -- A countryman; a compatriot. Spanish from the French paysan, peasant. By implication, a working person.
Jeez! "Food for Working" sounds like a white-collar pretension of blue-collar . . .
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February 01, 2007 09:55 AM EST --
It's the fennel seed that makes it. Italian sausage, that is. Fennel provides the single most distinctive flavor in Italian sausage and it's often described as anise-like. Perhaps so, but I don't . . .
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March 05, 2007 09:10 PM EST --
Just as there are religious fundamentalists and evangelists. There are food fundamentalists and evangelists. Hell, I may be one — witness my homemade corned beef as an effort to find and, in . . .
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March 08, 2007 01:59 PM EST --
It was inevitable. I've known that for quite some time and wasn't particularly avoiding it. I wasn't intimidated by the prospect, but I was waiting for something to come along that said, "Now." . . .
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May 09, 2007 09:47 AM EDT --
There was a large patch of gravel in front of the rickety, boarded-up roadside stand, a plywood structure smaller than my closet that it seemed would fall apart if you looked at it closely. I drove by . . .
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June 13, 2007 09:59 AM EDT --
In April of 711, the Arab governor of Tangiers, Tariq ibn-Ziyad, crossed the strait between what are now Morocco and Spain with an army of 10,000 Berbers. At the time the Iberian peninsula was ruled . . .
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February 27, 2008 04:06 PM EST --
I got a call from the Paisano about a week ago. He was in Sonoma (California) visiting a friend who raises sheep and had been bragging about my lamb sausage: my lamb sausage. I was flabbergasted because . . .
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May 28, 2008 02:18 PM EDT --
M ummo, my mother's mother and the only grandmother I ever knew, made the best fried chicken in the world. The last time I saw Mummo was 30 years ago in her basement apartment in my uncle's house . . .
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