Calamari is an Italian dish that's made with squid (yup, as in tentacles), bread crumbs, cheese, eggs, and garlic. Calamari is often one of the seven fish prepared for Christmas Eve. This dish is a labor of love -- if someone makes calamari for you, lucky YOU.Food & Books and Books With Food
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The Secret to Joseph's Favorite Eggplant Parmesan
It's not really the recipe that makes this Italian dish rock, it's all about the eggplant. Rinse, peel and slice it as thin-thin as you can, then place the slices between plates to press out the bitter juices. After 1 1/2 hours, pat them dry and salt them generously. Now go ahead and use whatever eggplant parmesan recipe you like, but make sure you add homemade marinara sauce using plum tomatoes. Joseph's family would NEVER reach for the jarred stuff.
Rose's Birthday Popovers
From my Mom's Hand-Scribbled, 50-year-old Recipe
- 1 cup flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 eggs (Break them over a bowl so they are looking at you with their big yellow eyes)
- 1 cup milk
Preheat Oven to 450° degrees. Grease six custard cups well with vegetable oil, including the outside. Mix all the ingredients and fill the custard cups half full and set them on a cookie sheet.
Bake for 20 minutes then without opening the door (though peek in because it's cool how high they rise!) lower the temperature to 400° degrees) and bake another 25 minutes.
