Posts Tagged ‘italian’
Dad’s Bruschetta
Dad and I were grocery shopping the other day when he told me that he would make Bruschetta for dinner that night.
Seafood Linguine
This is my finalized recipe for the Seafood Pasta I posted earlier. Remember that one? I’ve been toying with making good seafood pasta ever since I found those mixed seafood packs in Rustan’s. This time around I used Linguine noodles. If you want to make a pasta dish with seafood, the best kind of pasta would be spaghetti or linguine.
Seafood Pasta
With the pack of mixed seafood I wrote about earlier, I decided to make Seafood Pasta, in a white wine and tomato sauce. One of the Italian restaurants in Cebu I like is La Tegola and one of my favorite dishes they make is Pasta al Cartoccio, which is seafood pasta in a tomato sauce. After cooking the pasta and mixing in the sauce, they wrap it up in foil and let it stay inside the oven for a couple of minutes. The dish is usually served unopened to your table and a waitress/waiter opens it in front of you. The smell that first lets out of that foil is heavenly!
Spaghetti Carbonara
Okay, so dinner tonight was a major disaster. D-I-S-A-S-T-E-R.
The dish itself was delicious and far from being forgettable. So, what went wrong, you might ask?
Let me paint a picture of my life. I grew up with a French dad that is stubborn, close-minded, and refuses to admit he’s ever wrong. I used to ask myself how he ever got through life with these negative traits. I still wonder to myself if he’s always been that way or maybe he’s acquired it through time because I don’t know how you can travel around the world and still be close-minded. Anyways, a couple of years ago, my Filipina mother passed away. And a couple years after that, I got married to a wonderful man. Days before my wedding, I could not help but think about my new life. I was becoming someone’s wife and I thought of my dad. What would happen to him? Would he live alone? We’d never talked about it in the months of wedding preparation. How did that topic never come up? I was seriously getting depressed. I loved my husband but I could not grasp the idea of letting him live alone at 75 years old. On my mom’s death bed, he promised he would never love another woman, and he never did after that. Could I leave him then? No I could not. I was torn.
Chicken Piccata
Another chef I like to follow on the food network channel is Giada De Laurentiis. With her Italian origins, she makes interesting and delicious dishes that suit our family taste well. Most of her recipes are quite simple and very easy to make, which is a big plus for me. The first recipe of Giada’s that I decided to post is Chicken Piccata. I made this for dinner tonight and served it with a simple salad on the side. I loved the flavors of this dish coming from the lemon and capers. Slightly sour but very very good. After researching online, I learned that traditional chicken piccata has white wine in it. I wished I knew that earlier because I think it would have made the dish even better. Oh well, there’s always a next time.
