Girls Night In! Adventures in Curing and 'The Boy'.

I love perusing isles of stores letting my mind's associations do the navigating. A few weeks ago while in a specialty cooking store-I began looking around to see if they carried limoncello. I recently have made this acquaintance and upon hours of googling recipes (coveted they are no longer)-I found a few that seemed realistic to try. My girlfriend and I began talking about all the recipes we have collected over the last few years. We discovered we both would rather spend our time cooking together, drinking wine as opposed to dropping money in a restaurant on food we have come to appreciate less as the restaurant is no longer a luxury and now a staple. We began compiling recipes that had strong European influence and organized a weekend to hole-up and cook...