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Meet Nico + Ragù alla Bolognese

November 7, 2017 by theeverykitchen@gmail.com Leave a Comment

This authentic recipe for Ragù alla Bolognese is well worth the hour it takes to make. You’ll have plenty for a family dinner, plus extra for the freezer. You should also know that it’s damn delicious and it very well may make you cry.

I met Nico in Spain.

I met him on my second night in Spain in a dormitory in a small place called Roncesvalles. I only spoke with him briefly, but I remembered him. Maybe it was something in those deep, chocolate eyes of his. Or the cadence of his conversation — that Italian lilt.

Does this sound like a love story yet? It sort of is. I fell in love with many people and things in Spain and Nico is one of them.

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Simplest Oven-Roasted Tomato Sauce

September 17, 2015 by theeverykitchen@gmail.com 2 Comments

Please tell me you have room left in your big food-loving heart for a last tomato recipe. Please tell me that you’re kitchen looks like mine and you have too many left over tomatoes (and bell peppers and jalapeños) than you know what to do with. And now, take a deep breath, because we are going to cook all of those tomatoes down into a smooth, creamy, almost sweet sauce that you can eat right away or freeze for those days when you have the wintertime blues and desperately need a late-summer tomato pick-me-up.

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Goldfish-Crusted Okra with Spicy Tomato Dip

October 9, 2014 by theeverykitchen@gmail.com 1 Comment

I’ve been writing and deleting for almost an hour now. What’s the problem? It’s that I’m trying to make okra exciting.

Personally, I get really excited about okra.

But it’s really not that exciting. It’s a vegetable. It’s green. It’s slimy. A lot of people ~~don’t like~~ hate it. It’s either breaded and fried, like most Southern vegetables. Or stewed with tomatoes, like a lot of other Southern vegetables. It’s not super versatile.

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