A Bachelor's Weblog to Urban Cooking

This is a classic recipe but believe it or not I never made it before until today. This is another recipe Sade gave me. I love italian food is can be made fast. This is definitely in my alley. The only problem is that I am too good at making it even the first time. I am pretty stuffed right now even though I just had dinner 4 hours ago.

This is a simple but tasty recipe from my friend Sade. She simplified several steps to make it a fast recipe. I loved it. It goes well with steamed vegetables such as broccoli, carrot and asparagus. White wine is a plus.

Steamed vegetables in microwave are the easiest thing ever! Now you can get zipper bags just for this purpose.

Any kind of vegetable will do. I will include carrot and cauliflower for demo. You can also get pre peeled and pre packaged vegetables for even faster operation. I just want to demonstrate how to peel and cut carrot and cauliflower in the video.

Tuna fish stew simple and fast. (5 cans)

A lot of times you can get almost pre-made food from local variety shops. In my case I frequently visit a local Italian specialty shop The advantage? Pasta made in the shortest time with the best taste ever.

Capone Food is my favorite Italian shop in town. Highly recommended if you live around Boston area. Just for pasta, Capone Food makes 23 types of sauces and 21 types of pasta, and four different types of cuts. That’s 1932 combinations! Of course not all combination tastes great. The owner is extremely friendly and will give you a char indicating what combination taste well.

 

A slow cooker, also known as crock pot, cooks meat at 200 degrees on low and 400 degrees on high. It usually cooks meat in 8 to 10 hours on low and 4 to 5 hours on high. Slow cookers preserve moisture and make the meat tender. There are a lot of ways to use a slow cooker because you can put anything in it. Aisans like to mix ginger, scallion, soy sauce, sesame oil, etc with meat and sea food to make soup etc. I tried this with ox tail in a slow cooker.

 

There are many way to make Veal Saltimbocca. I got this version from my friend Monica. She is a great Italian chef. I tried the recipe out a couple of times. It is definitely a crowd pleaser. I showed my video to Monica. She confirmed that I did it right.

Salmon is very easy to cook. Baked salmon has a smoky taste. In this recipe, we also stir fry tomato with onions first to get the flavors out then we mixed the stir fried vegitables with salmon to bake. The result is amazing. You have to try it.