Comments on: what’s cooking wednesday: potatoes, peppers, & eggs

By: Susan at Sticky, Gooey, Creamy, Chewy

Susan at Sticky, Gooey, Creamy, Chewy — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:11:54 +0000

I made this last night for my family. I couldn’t stop thinking about it after reading your post. We made big fat sandwiches on Italian bread. I actually cried when I bit into it!

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Hah! That’s awesome Susan! Thanks for sharing

By: Sara

Sara — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:40:27 +0000

Alas, green peppers are completely indigestible for me, but substitute ripe, sweet, red bell peppers lightly pre-caramelized in that olive oil and you have a classic Sara dish as well. I can totally attest to its yumminess, and the heavenly scent with which it fills the kitchen. It’s good enough to get anyone out of bed, like those cartoons where people float in the air with their eyes still shut behind beckoning, finger-shaped tendrils of aroma that lead them by the nose right to the breakfast table.

Also, I usually nuke/bake the potatoes first. We like ‘em tender.

Truth be told, I prefer this with red peppers too–love everything just a bit sweeter indeed. And yes, definitely a great smell to wake up to…note to P

By: Janet

Janet — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:57:09 +0000

mmm, I think I’ll make this for dinner!

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Enjoy Janet!

By: Irene

Irene — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:19:29 +0000

Oh dear friend! That is my favorite comfort food! Bless you. It’s as if we just sat in the kitchen and chatted over a delicious hot plate. Thank you.

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You’re quite welcome Irene; I enjoyed our chat too

By: Celso Rosa

Celso Rosa — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:02:07 +0000

P.S.: Once I was walking along a tiny street in Trastevere, Rome, and I passed a restaurante with a sign outside that said in italian something like this: I TRIED TO GO ON A DIET AND ALL I LOST WAS TIME… TIME…

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Love it!

By: Celso Rosa

Celso Rosa — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:00:03 +0000

Hi! Here I am once again taking a look at your blog. Two reasons, at least, make me curious. First: the importance you give to food. I was born in Angola, and love to cook angolan cuisine specialties (hot hot hot), although I also love to prepare portuguese dishes. Second: Your american (if I’m not not), and was with an american friend that I first went to Italy. One again food is an issue! Due to that stay in Italy with her I discovered lots of different ingredients and learned something about the italian cuisine too.
For me food is one of the most important cultural traits of a people. Everytime I travel I just long to try local dishes. Every people in this world has its own way of preparing items that virtually exist all around the world (with some differences), and the way they do it is culture! What they choose to eat and not to eat is also culture! And we all have an obligation to look at cultural differences more closely and without prejudice and… can you imagine a better way of start doing just that than the cuisine? Keep up.

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Great thoughts Celso Rosa–I agree that food is definitely the heart of every culture, and it’s always fascinating to see and taste all of the different cuisines and traditions. Definitely one way we can all come together as most of us *do* rather enjoy eating

By: pizzocalabro

pizzocalabro — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:58:05 +0000

This looks really good, Michelle! Reminds me a of my dad’s breakfast standby of Bauernfrühstück, although he’d probably be hard pressed to write out a recipe for it, since it comes out slightly different every time.

One dish that will always remind me of Calabria is fried potatoes, onions and peppers (without eggs). I don’t even know if it’s a Calabrian recipe, just that I learned it in a Catholic mission soup kitchen I volunteered at in Catanzaro. I made it obsessively for months at all hours of the day, but I haven’t thought of it in years. I need to make that again.

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Yes yes Pizzocalabro! In the “related posts” on the bottom of this one there’s a potatoes and peppers recipe–with onions of course. P just loves it, although I don’t think his mom ever made it–I introduced it to him from my ancestors’ 100-year-old kitchen

By: LDP

LDP — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:50:18 +0000

Man does that look delicious. I somehow doubt the cafeteria here at my office has it on the menu.

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Sorry LDP, hope you find something good anyway

By: african vanielje

african vanielje — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:23:14 +0000

THis is the type of food I love. Fast, easy, delicious and adaptable. And yes, pass the fresh bread! YUM!

Old-fashioned fast food…without the transfats!

By: Minnie

Minnie — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:46:49 +0000

Too funny, that’s a standard “go to” recipe in my house. From when I was a child I can remember eating that on Fridays (no meat.)

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Definitely a great no-meat-Friday dish!