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Breakfast Sausage recipe at its best 27 Aug 2013 | 03:05 pm
For a couple of years we’ve been enjoying a single breakfast sausage most mornings. Trying to make it more healthy, but not giving up the pork aspect altogether, we’ve settled on a mixture of half gro...
Ruby Vinaigrette or Italian Vinaigrette 25 Aug 2013 | 03:38 pm
Since you probably already know that I make 99% of my own salad dressings, it’s no surprise I’ve made yet another one from that new cookbook. This one an Italian style. We had a big group on our boat...
Mejadra–an Arab recipe for rice and lentils 23 Aug 2013 | 03:52 pm
Gosh, do I love this stuff. I’ve made a very similar recipe, spelled slightly differently, called Mujadara, and it’s an Armenian dish of the same style. Rice, lentils and onions. This one is slightly ...
Addicted to pepper 21 Aug 2013 | 03:11 pm
If you like ranch dressing, you might enjoy this change of pace – it’s still the mixture of sour cream and mayo, but instead of the herby mixture from the packet, you add some of Penzey’s peppercorn s...
Curried Cauliflower & Apple Soup Recipe with Almonds 19 Aug 2013 | 03:14 pm
With a huge cauliflower in the refrigerator, I’d planned making the Cauliflower Soup with Olive Oil Drizzle, a cold soup that we devoured just a few weeks ago. It was SO good. But then I ran across an...
Hatch Chile Roasting 19 Aug 2013 | 12:24 am
Hatch chiles – so flavorful. In mild, medium and HOT. This was the display at our local Ralph’s grocery where Frieda’s staged a chile roasting event. So, they had these monstrous round bins with a ho...
Peaches a la Piemontese 17 Aug 2013 | 03:44 pm
With peaches in season, this dessert is SO easy and so tasty. Only one thing – you have to have amaretti cookies on hand to make it. I had a few, actually have had about 8 of them sealed up in a vacuu...
Drowned Broccoli Recipe, or Broccoli Suffocated, or in Italian, it’s Broccoli Affogati 15 Aug 2013 | 03:37 pm
This dish, gosh. Hard to describe without it sounding mundane, but it isn’t. And pictures hardly do it justice – purply broccoli? But, it’s delicious. It’s Sicilian, and most often when they serve it,...
Vanilla Bean Panna Cotta and Lemon Panna Cotta 13 Aug 2013 | 03:43 pm
Scrumptious, smooth and loaded with flavor from the vanilla bean and the potent blackberry Zinfandel sauce on top. If you like panna cotta, you’ll love this one. There are 2 recipes for panna cotta h...
Hatch Chiles from Frieda’s 12 Aug 2013 | 11:47 pm
If you’re a chili-head, then you’ll want to know about where you can buy Hatch chiles. I wrote a bit about them a year ago – I tried to go to a roasting event at a local grocery store, but when I got ...
