Category archives: Eats at Pazzo
What to do with all this herring…Baza!
I accidentally found a great Eastern European grocery store in Newton this morning. It’s on a side street just off Needham Ave. in the Newton/Needham nexus (near the Mobile Book Fair) a block down from Filene’s basement. It’s big enough… continue reading »
Jimmies and El Chavo
The warmish weather has gotten me wandering around a bit and in the past week I hit the new ice cream shop, Jimmies, on Corinth and El Chavo at 4254 Washington, a few doors down from our old digs. Jimmies… continue reading »
Bay Sweets
Stung by Bob’s/Droubi’s cessation of pita making last year and Samia’s closure , I’ve finally branched out and tried Bay Sweets (née Bayeh Market) on Spring St. in West Roxbury (which even has their menu online) and was more than… continue reading »
Mortreux and a Pie
Mortreux, as expected, was somewhat simpler to make than blank manger but more of a challenge from an edibility standpoint. As it takes its name from the ingredients being mortared, I felt it was incumbent upon me to mortar everything… continue reading »
Blank maunger – Eating Chaucer, the Beginning
On January 1st, I made my first Eating Chaucer dish (I’m a little late in the recording, but I’ve been trying to track down a peacock), blank maunger (or blancmanger, blaumaunger, or blanc manger as Chaucer, a more continental figure,… continue reading »
Approaching Chaucer – Cooking Rules
As we approach the beginning of my Eating Chaucer project, I’ll lay down some ground rules for the cooking of the food. I will try to stick with methods that were, liberally, available in the 13th/14th centuries. This means no… continue reading »
Ground Rules for Eating Chaucer
So, again, the object is to eat everything food related in The Canterbury Tales. If there is no specific dish mentioned (which is common) I’ll pick something representative from a period cookbook. There are a few spots where Chaucer used… continue reading »
For blankmanger, that made he with the beste.
I’ve always been inspired by wacky pointless quests (like releasing every bird mentioned in Shakespeare in Central Park), and egg week went so well that I’ve decided to take one up for 2008. Next year I will endeavor to eat… continue reading »
Eats at Pazzo, the Bibliography
I’m housing the beginnings of a bibliography of food books at the Eats at Pazzo page over on the right. At present it’s just a beginning but I’ve been noting interesting sounding books for a while and finally decided to… continue reading »
Simco Hits the Spot
After accidentally watching “Super Size Me” right after having read Fast Food Nation, I’m always in the market for a non fast food answer to my burger and hot dog cravings and Simco is the current undisputed champion. The flagship… continue reading »
Taste of Roslindale
The first annual Taste of Roslindale is set for Friday, September 28th. So far the list of participants is a little thin (and catering more to the South St. set) with only A. Boschetto’s Bakery, Bangkok Café, Delfino’s, Geoffrey’s, Sophia’s… continue reading »
Some more 100 year eggs
They look so terrible they must be delicious. It calls to mind my days at Ye Olde Watering Hole in Northampton (home of the Beer Can Museum as featured on PM Magazine!) drinking $1 Bud drafts and eating picked eggs… continue reading »
Egg Week continues
It’s getting a little touch and go – my mother yelled at me for my cholesterol, had trouble getting enough eggs into a fried rice dish to qualify and there was a point, while eating my steak/egg/hashbrown burrito the other… continue reading »
Egg Week
For a variety of reasons (lack of free time due to newborn, love of eggs, ennui, etc.) my wife and I have decided to eat only egg dishes for dinner this week. This is day three (linguica and egg sandwiches)… continue reading »
Geoffrey’s Cafe
Had brunch at Geoffrey’s (which recently replaced Salute) the last two weekends (had to double check; you can’t be too safe) and was quite pleased. They seem to have the pricing down which is a must in Roslindale and the… continue reading »
Eco-gastronomy
I’m sure you’ve all heard of the Slow Food movement – I certainly had, but until running into it recently while killing time reading about food, I had never really absorbed what they were trying to do and the scope… continue reading »
All you can eat at Dodger Stadium
Lovely bit by Neil Pollack at Slate on the new gluttony pavilion at Dodger Stadium.
Gnocchi
As a further attempt to stave off the mind numbingly depressing weather, I made gnocchi last night and they were shockingly easy and satisfying to make. Just potatoes and flour in the dough (about a cup and a half of… continue reading »
Eastery dinner
Here’s some yummy photos of Easter dinner. All you need is a roast chicken, some bacon for vestments (they do double duty as the clothes that the Romans gamble over and the garments left in the cave – see the… continue reading »