Simple but sublime is the pumpkin soup my Merry Band of Tasters and I were served when visiting the Librandi family, one of Calabria’s outstanding olive oil producers. “Mama” Librandi shared the recipe with me. Ingredients 1 3-pound pumpkin or butternut squash, peeled, with seeds and membranes removed 2 medium Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled 3 […]
Mojo colorado is a classic red chile sauce from Spain’s Canary Islands. Great on smashed potatoes, it’s also wonderful as an accompaniment to anything you cook on the grill—meat, fish, or veggies. Ingredients For the mojo colorado: 1 red bell pepper 2 tablespoons pimentón 1 small, fresh, hot red chile, stemmed, seeded, and roughly chopped […]
My Merry Band of Tasters and I were treated to this recipe at the Di Mercurio family’s farm in Italy after an olive harvest, and master miller Duccio Morozzo and I liked it so much we decided to recreate it back in his Roman kitchen. Ingredients 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil, plus more for […]
My twist on this now-classic dish is to serve it with dukkah, a little-known nut-and-spice blend that’s Egyptian in origin but has been wildly popularized half a world away in Australia. Dukkah is wonderful on vegetables, but you can use it to make compound butter or as a sandwich spread, to add zest to a […]
