I immediately fell in love with the vibe of the book and the way she presented her recipes.
Thinking about that sauce, I bought Marcella Hazan’s cookbook. My best pasta sauce is still Chef John’s bolognese via Hazan (see ). I found the use of meat cubes a bit strange (even if I cooked them down to “pulled pork” consistency) and preferred ground meat in my sauce. It gave a better result.Įnthused by my success, I tried Gennaro Contaldo’s ragu (see ). Its was the best stuffing yet but I thought the ravioli dough was a bit too thick and chewy so I bought “00 flour” (its not that expensive, its just not that easy to find) and changed the proportions to 150grams of 00 flour, 50 grams of durum semolina and two eggs (Gennaro Contaldo’s pasta dough, see here ). I cooked them and threw them in a pan with a brown butter and parmesan. It was my first time making pasta (I had a pasta machine waiting to be used) and I used Micheal Ruhlman’s proportions from his book Ratio (see ). I didn’t want to throw them away so I opened them, took their meat, cooked them with two caramelized onions and garlic, combined them with ricotta and a bit of parmesan and made ravioli with it. I had just finished to make chef john’s “one pot chicken and sausage orzo” (see ) and I had two hot italian sausage left over. Then she laughed.I plan to do a fair bit of cooking with “The Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking” from Marcella Hazan (see ) and I thought it might be interesting for some people to hear about my feedback of different tests. "Do you ever use yellow American cheese?" I asked her just now. Nothing else melts like it, either white, uncolored, or yellow, which is colored with annatto seed extract.
And yes, it is with American Cheese or rather processed cheese product. I wanted to record it here, for the record. To alter the recipe would be to alter the past and to fail to properly honor his memory (they were as close as dad and daughter could be from what I know Ann wrote a memoir about trying to save him from the lung cancer that killed him at age 67 called Do Not Go Gentle: My Search For Miracles In a Cynical Time.)
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Ann began calling her dad Poopsie when she was little and continued to do so throughout his life, so Poops was her dad and this was the Mac and Cheese he made. I loved it and have asked her to make it when I visit her for the first time in 15 months.Īnother such dish is the above Mac and Cheese. It was called on the recipe card my dad typed up "Party Chicken." Chicken breasts on shredded chipped beef (what was that?), a can of Campbell's cream of mushroom soup, and a can's worth of what was labeled cooking sherry. As noted in my newsletter, my mom used to make a particular chicken dish in 1970s suburban Cleveland when she and Dad had dinner parties. There's something about family recipes that makes them untouchable. Or according to the faded hand-written recipe, "Baked Macaroni a la Poops," in Ann's mom's handwriting. Or specifically, my wife Ann's Mac and Cheese. A meal of Mac and Cheese with a fennel, radish and red leaf lettuce salad, lemon, olive oil, salt and pepper.
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