I overheard a cookbook author on a podcast say that if you have 15 recipes, you have 3 weeks worth of meals, no repeats. Which brings me to this doc, a work-in-progress that hopefully proves useful the next time you are low on ideas. I’ll keep adding to it / improving / editing. Comments and feedback are - more than - welcome.
I included recipes that I have made more than a bunch of times and I keep going back to, i.e. they are
on regular rotation, i.e., weeknight family meal
a dinner party staple
General notes:
Heads up, these are majority Italian / Mediterranean recipes. Shamefully, very few are my mom’s because I host a website for our family recipes(host = Christmas gift for my niece two years ago that hasn’t been updated since), including her infamous microwave Risotto al Pomodoro.
We cook at least 5 days a week. About once a week the kids have the Italian version of lazy fast food: some kind of tortellini. When we were in NY, the ones from Eataly were hard to beat. Giovanni Rana are a good commercial alternative. For those in NL, I often buy these from AH. Or, corona-update: buy wonton wrappers and make these.
I like leftovers. I freeze them, eat them for lunch, feed them to the kids when we have other plans for the evening.
Always in my fridge and/or freezer:
It took a while, but finally got into the habit of making chicken stock and now have it stocked(ha) in my freezer for soups and risotto.
This makes enough sauce for a 12oz / 500g serving of pasta
Bon Appetit has a similar version with pistachios that’s creamy and lovely as well. And inspired me to eat it with whole wheat pasta which was actually…nice
Orecchiette are typical, but any short pasta works well
I haven’t found broccoli rabe in Amsterdam - it must be a New York delicacy 😜 - so I have substituted with plain broccoli, which is fine, but better with rabe.
No yellow raisins, use black raisins or currants
Chicken stock and raisins are nth, but def make this“extra”
Hi!
Recipes
Pasta 🍝
Kale Pasta
Sausage Broccoli Rabe Pasta
Julia Turshen’s Lasagna