Ellie & Matt’s Italian Date Night
Smoky Parmesan Chicken Hearth Rice
Candlelight, comfort, and a taste of Italy.
Open the night →What’s Cooking in the Kitchen
Date Night in the Kitchen
Two pans would make it easier. One makes it a date.
Somebody lights the candle before the food is anywhere near ready, which is the whole point. A date night is not a faster dinner. It is a slower one, arranged so that the cooking is the evening rather than the thing standing in front of it.
So these are written as nights, not as posts — the dish, the table it is meant for, and a note from the two people who cooked it. The recipe is all here and readable; nothing is locked inside a picture.
The date nights
The rest of the kitchen
These are not date nights. They are ordinary-Tuesday food, and they are better left that way. Every one of them lives on the Kitchen Pillars shelf, at the address it has always had.
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Ember’s Sunfire Three-Part Meal
Fire, Anchor & Bridge — one meal, three preparations, one skillet.
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Ember’s Sunfire Chicken Rice
Chicken, broccoli & cabbage rice with saffron and herbs.
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Ember’s Hearth & Hollow Stew
Pork & Job’s tears, simmered beef-style, deeply browned and slow-cooked.
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🍞🔥 Ember’s Wonder Bread
High-starter cultured bread-machine loaf.
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🔥 Ember’s Creamy Parmesan Cabbage Rice
A buttery, risotto-style leftover rice supper.
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🌅 Ember’s Cinnamon Sunrise
A Cultured Almond Friendship Loaf.
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Bone Broth
What is worth having is drawn out slowly, from what looks like waste.
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Ember’s Hearthfire Butter Chicken Curry
Warm enough to weather the storm.
The Path Continues
None of this is finished by reading it. A recipe is only true in a pan, and a date night is only true with somebody in the chair.
Onward · Practice Ellie & Matt’s Italian Date Night Pick a night this week. Cook it for somebody who will sit down and eat it with you. Enter →