I fell so in love with Persimmons last week with our Persimmon, Pear & Fennel Salad with Fried Sage, that I decided to make a week of it! A veritable, virtual Persimmon festival if you will. Persimmons are sweet with a hint of tart when they are ripe (when they…
This past summer Greg and I took a month long jaunt to Europe. We swung through Paris – Greg’s first visit. Spent time all over Italy and then swung through Istanbul (which was one of my bucket list items). The cities we visited were beautiful and we have such an…
Now that we are embedded solidly in Autumn aka Comfort Food Season, my body is starting to tell me that I need to stay in bed later and go to bed earlier. It is also telling me that with all the hearty foods I’ve been enjoying I should most decidedly…
I am a big tuna melt fan. I like my tuna melts with a little butter, a little lemon, salt, pepper and a touch of cheese, broiled well. I am also an egg salad fan. I like my egg salads mixed with astringent and tangy things like oil cured olives…
With fall and falling leaves firmly in the air, I apparently have turned to comfort food. For most people, this might mean carb-0-licious carbs, and don’t get me wrong, I love a good carb or two. For me though, comfort food means onions and garlic. Earlier this week, I posted…
Since we are knee deep in Halloween season, I wanted to offer up a recipe that is good for keeping the vampires at bay. Garlic Coleslaw is one of those family recipes that no one in the family is quite sure who in the family came up with it. If…
I am a huge fan of Roasted Chicken with extra crispy skin, dotted with salt and pepper and little else. I love that I can get 2-3 meals out of one bird. The drippings are delicious for roasting veggies. The leftover meat can begin day 2 in a salad, an…
Pasta is a weeknight staple – fast, easy, filling, and requiring little in the way of skill or attention. If you can boil water and heat sauce, you can have dinner on the table in 20 minutes. When I have some spare moments, I like to make a home-made pasta…
Apparently, I am going for decadent as possible in this week’s posts – between the Melted Ice Cream French Toast on Monday and the Duck Bacon Jam today, it would appear that I am trying to take a few years off of all our lives. On the flip side, carpe…
This week was a week of gatherings, get togethers and good byes, peppered with good friends and food. I ‘do’ parties professionally. As in, I’m the gal behind the scenes pulling strings to make everything come together. Here’s the stressful bit about doing events – I always secretly wonder if…