Bon Appetit!
Still do not know what we are referring to?
Well, if you read the “feedback” page in the latest issue of Bon Appetit Magazine you will quickly understand what’s happening in our life and where we’re going with The Tuscan Gun!
We would like to thank all of our followers scrambled over the web, the Bloggers, the Twitters, the Facebook addicts, the Fans and the Foodies from all over the world that have been keeping this project alive (and very much healthy) by cross-posting, syndicating and “Stumbling Upon” our recipes and videos.
Thank you again everybody,
we will be online again this coming week for a new
episode...Deb was in NY shooting “Law and Order SVU”,
that’s the reason for the delay in posting (we will
post the air date as soon as it becomes available).
Breast Milk, Powdered Milk, Foodblogging Addiction...and Twitter!!!
Very worried about what is happening in China with the tainted milk situation, even Starbucks started pulling milk off their shelves.
In Switzerland however they seem to be having the opposite problem; maybe bored wit the regular cow’s juice, a restaurant owner thought that cooking with breast milk could actually be a valid alternative...and then what, breast milk chocolate bars?
And why do you think that the newly posted mini-enciclopedia Kids’ Health Guide posted on the New York Times opens with the line: 6 Food Mistakes Parents Make? Such a lack of confidence right?
On a different note...we started Twittering, and immediately hooked up with a few friends...First impression, very addictive and fun for the moment. We added a feed for it in our sidebar, it will display our status and the conversation with friends that have their profile set to public.
Read More...A recipe from "The Vault"! Melanzane alla Parmigiana
You cooked them for important occasions: a New Years’ Eve, a Birthday or a very special date! It’s everybody’s favorite, the dish that people will brag about until the day they persuade you to cook it again.
We do not have many recipes in “Our Vault”, and this one has never been even on paper before (or in a blog)...Gabriele figured out his own way (writing in third person today), and cooked. And people ate! All of it!
Yesterday, by the time we served lunch for our goodbyes on camera, for some reason we had six people sitting at our table...first time that happens since we started taping.
Today we are cooking
MELANZANE ALLA PARMIGIANA (Egglant
Parmesan)...it made it for a very long
morning, but well worth the effort.
A few suggestions about this dish: double the amount of
ingredients and make an extra tray for the freezer, it
will be highly appreciated the day that it comes
out....and you will not have to “feel the pain” of
cooking for half a day again.
Do not feel pressured, overall this recipe is very
easy; the most important part is getting ready with the
ingredients, start off with a lot of clean space in the
kitchen and have an iPod fully loaded with your
favorites!
Let us know how this one comes out,
share it away!!!
Buon Appetito.
Debi and Gabriele
p.s. You might want to check our
First Episode for the Re Sauce recipe, but
if you are confident enough, we do have posted the
recipe along with the one for the eggplants.
Bye Again
Let's brag a bit...The Bloggers Choice Awards.
The kids started school, the alarm started buzzing early in the morning, life gets busier...but we won’t stop cooking and posting. This blog of ours has become in a few months a reference point for many of you, we do receive emails everyday, and the overall support of our readers is truly humbling!!!
To answer one, actually two, of the most common questions:
Yes, more features, and way more recipes are coming your way, and we are working very hard in designing the new architecture of the next version of this blog (sounds easier to say that an update will be online soon)...
And again, yes, there are very good chances that we might end up evolving this project to Television...in case that happens, do not worry, our website will keep on grinding good recipes, and we will keep on reaching out personally to all of you on these pages.
In the meantime, in part to satisfy our curiosity, and in part to brag a bit, we submitted Under The Tuscan Gun for the Bloggers Choice Awards.
We are eligible for Four
Different Categories: Best Food Blog,
Best Podcast,
Best Celebrity Blogger
and...Hottest Daddy Blogger!
It would obviously be ideal if we did not disperse
energies and give you only one possibility for
voting...like:”Please vote us as Best Food Blog”, but
at the same time we figured that it is appropriate for
us just to keep it light, fun, and see what happens...
So, if you feel like, please click away, tell your
friends and your grandma, and get us on top of the
list!!!
Have a great week end, we will be back next week with a
brand new episode.
Ciao
Debi and Gabriele
The Black Book
Click on the image below to access the full article.
On a different note, just to crack a smile...(or choke in disbelief),
Read More...Happy Labor Day Weekend!!!
Make the best of eat
treating yourself, your family and a few of your
friends to a
Tuscan Backyard Barbeque.
To celebrate with you this Labor Day weekend, Debi and
I are posting a full menu episode, nothing too fancy…
just celebratory, fun, and not that hard to do:
remember, is mostly the freshness of the ingredients
that ends up making a good dish, not an elaborated
recipe.
Also, as we promised a
couple of weeks ago, we created a music playlist for your
kitchen, and we are sharing it via
iTunes (while waiting for our e-store to be ready
for launch). We love Latin and Jazz music, and this
first compilation is all Brazilian, a place very
close to our hearts…that’s where Gabriele escaped in
his twenties, after serving too long for the Italian
Army…but that’s another story.
However, we like Samba and Bossanova very much, mostly
the old stuff from the 20’s to the 60’s, and it was not
easy to find some good songs on the iTunes store…good
enough though for this holyday weekend at the door!
So, plug the iPod and start chopping away,
Happy Labor Day!!!
Debi and Gabriele
Debi in September.
Shauna is back; the fierce and orally violent publicist is back with the Entourage guys to “protect and guide” Vince and his brother Johnny, as they kick off with Season 5 (HBO - September 7th at 10p.m.).
Also, under the direction
of Diane English, Deborah
will soon be seen playing a pivotal role in the
latest remake of The Women, the movie
will premiere on September 12th in theaters across
the nation.
Well done Debina, we’re proud of you!!!
iTunes is back, better than ever!
You can now view our show
in a higher resolution within your iTunes Player, download
the video files to your PC/Mac or your Apple TV, and
eventually store them into your iPod...so you can
show them to your Grandma next time you go visit!
Here is the only catch: the video files will need to be
converted before you can actualy synch them to an iPod
or iPhone (ctrl+click or mouse right button).
Also, as you might have noticed (or we hope that
eventually you will), we are finally featuring original
music thoughout the show, thanks to the great help and
inspiration of Terry Radigan and Joshua Camp in New
York and Pat Buchanan in Nashville. Many of our viewers
have been requesting information about the music we
feature in our videos, and also asked about what we
listen at home while cooking or entertaining...stay
tuned, as a few surprise posts will be coming soon.
For the moment,
enjoy Under The Tuscan Gun on a bigger screen...now you
can!
Debi and Gabriele
A Salad by the Pool
Today, mid summer, still, hot...nothing better than a light lunch by the pool.
Enjoy this super fast recipe, and let us introduce you to a very special wine.
Buon Appetito
Midnight Spaghetti; What a Date!
since our social life is these days somewhat limited (read: got two kids and we’re exhausted), we decided last night to improvise a romantic date in our own house.
We put the kids to sleep, we chilled for a bit, and then we got all dolled up, cracked the wine open and...well, it was a blast.
Even if the dish we
prepared is somewhat synonymous of “hot italian summer
nights wearing shorts and flip flops on the porch”, it
was refreshing to find an excuse to get elegant and
celebrate.
Please join us for a midnight
Spaghetti all’
Amatriciana.
The Florentine
This summer, if you intend
to visit Tuscany and florence, be sure to look for this
free magazine, or check their website, you will find
tips and calendar events that will help you navigate
the city with ease.
This month Debi and I are featured on The Florentine
pages...just a few questions about how we met, and
what’s going on with our lives.