A Hungry Bear

broccoli rabe and ricotta pasta

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Part of our produce delivery from our CSA last week was broccoli rabe. Since you don’t have a choice in what produce is delivered (whatever is in season and ripe - that’s what you get!), I had to get over my long-time avoidance of this bitter vegetable. The only time I had made [...]

jamie oliver’s rotolo of spinach, squash and ricotta

Sunday, November 16, 2008

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According to Jamie Oliver, he was discovered with this stuffed, rolled pasta dish called a rotolo (someone important saw him making it, and his TV chef career began). It’s actually less labor-intensive than ravioli, since you are basically working with one giant stuffed piece of pasta instead of 30+. And if you really [...]

spaghetti squash with ricotta, sage & toasted pine nuts

Thursday, October 23, 2008

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I found this awesome recipe for spaghetti squash on The Kitchn (Apartment Therapy’s cooking blog). It’s so true - parmesan is good and all, but is that the *only* way to make spaghetti squash? This is definitely going in the rotation. I made it with a roast leg of lamb and some [...]

why have I not heard of this? rich tomato sausage pasta with olives

Sunday, July 27, 2008

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I was looking for a baked pasta recipe on epicurious the other day - I wanted to find an easy-ish recipe that I could make, divide into 2 batches and freeze half of it for future use. I came across this recipe as the most reviewed, highest rated baked pasta in their archive, from [...]

green 3 cheese ravioli + tomato sauce with garlic and basil (”alla carrettiera”)

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

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In Marcella Hazan’s “essentials of classic italian cooking”, she talks about the “only” 2 ways to EVER make fresh pasta dough: basic egg pasta (covered numerous times, albeit imperfectly, on this blog), and “green” pasta. Green pasta incorporates fresh spinach right into the dough - and why did I think I needed even more [...]

tagliatelle with spinach

Monday, June 16, 2008

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This is a simple recipe from The Silver Spoon, a huge cookbook that proclaims itself “Italy’s best selling cookbook for 50 years” (I don’t know if this is true, but it the several of the 2000+ recipes I’ve tried so far have been great). I’m always looking for new ways to dress up fresh [...]

asparagus-ricotta tart with soppressata

Monday, June 2, 2008

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I’ve seen a lot of food blogs touting all kinds of tarts and puff pastries, so I figured it’s about time I featured one on AHB. In the April issue of Bon Appetit, there was a spring-y “asparagus-ricotta tart” that sneaks in little slices of soppressata, which spices up an otherwise fluffy tea party [...]

lemon ricotta pasta with pine nuts and roast chicken

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

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This recipe meets several requirements for the “weekday rotation” in my house: fast (literally 30 minutes start to finish, less if you buy a rotisserie chicken), and lots of protein. If I’m making pasta, I’ve got to sneak in as much as possible — did you know part-skim ricotta is a very lean form [...]

sunday afternoon lasagna

Monday, March 24, 2008

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This is a Sunday afternoon dish because it’s great to make ahead for the week, and also because you need about 4 hours to prepare it. There are some very easy shortcuts to trim that down to about 45 minutes of active prep time, if you don’t want to spend an afternoon in the [...]