When I put together the recipes for this column, I have three main criteria: it has to taste good, it has to be affordable, and it should be relatively easy to put together. With today’s recipe, I’m telling you upfront that I am sacrificing convenience for amazing taste.
Even though we’re well into Autum now, it’s a beautiful day in Groningen and I am feeling summery. By coincidence, one of the vendors at the market carried large (VERY large!) beefsteak tomatoes today, a rare event around here. One can buy decent tomatoes, to be sure, but to find large ones, large enough to stuff, that is, happens only once or twice a year. And so today I set about making one of my favourite summer dishes from Greece: stuffed tomatoes.
I have been on a quest recently to understand regional Chinese cooking a little bit better, mostly because I have been craving good Sichuan food and haven’t found much, locally.
Of all the food shows I have watched in the last few years, one of the most interesting ones is a show on China Central Television called A Bite of China. As far as I can tell, there are currently 7 episodes, all of which are available online with English subtitles (links at the end of this post).
Well, I promised that the next pizza I made at home would be of the Neapolitan variety and I hate to break my promises, so drum roll please for the latest and greatest in Neapolitan pizzas!
Last September, after talks with the editor of the UK, the newspaper of the University of Groningen, I started writing a fortnightly food column for them. I suggested we call this column “The Epicurean”, she agreed, and the first piece was published on September 16th, 2011. Today, after a year’s worth of columns, I decided it was time for a refresh of the design of the Epicurean page on this site. Have a look.
