My mother loved to bake. She particularly loved to bake pies.
I remember her glancing at the clock on a Sunday morning, seeing that she had a spare 15 minutes and saying – great, I have enough time to bake a pie!
She did not, however, like to teach.
I never learned how to make pie crust, aka shortcrust pastry.… Continue reading.....
We love stuffing vegetables of all types, but particularly peppers.
The filling for these comes from one of our favorite meatball recipes Meatballs with Preserved Lemon that I have been making before we ever went to Morocco.
If you like more heat – add more spices or you favorite hot sauce
Use any color peppers you like for this but … Continue reading.....
This is it.
The last summer squash / zucchini / courgette post of this season.
I think.
Frankly, I’m getting tired of eating them and cooking them and am very happy to switch to the winter squashes.
Which reminds me….
I was chatting with family the other day and my s-i-l was saying that my brother, once again, wanted pizza … Continue reading.....
Most people cannot resist bacon and cheese.
I cannot resist a white wine / yogurt sauce.
As the weather cools and the cooking returns to the kitchen, my thoughts turn to our favorites.
We have all winter to think about healthy….
The turkey cutlets we get here are so versatile.
They are big, so I normally buy 2 cutlets and … Continue reading.....
I don’t remember the reason and I don’t remember when, but somewhere along the line of my life I decided to stop using pizza sauce.
Instead I use paper thin slices of fresh tomato.
With a sharp, preferably serrated knife, I can get 8 – 10 slices from a medium – large tomato…. More from a truly big one. Two … Continue reading.....
Or you could call it a Potato Zucchini Cake – but that could be confusing. (Cake?)
Or a Potato Zucchini Patty.
The name really isn’t important and the food world seems to use them all interchangeably.
Whatever you call it, it’s easy… A little prep work shredding the vegetables and you’re done.
For those of you who don’t like or … Continue reading.....
This is the time of year that people with vegetable gardens start to get creative.
Perhaps desperate is a better word.
After months of delighting in green squash and yellow squash and fresh, sun-ripened tomatoes and green beans and, and, and…. one almost starts to hope for winter and a butternut squash.
What one does start doing is combining vegetables, … Continue reading.....
I used to love watching Alton Brown’s ‘Good Eats’ when I happened to be in the U.S. It was sometimes corny, usually fun and almost always educational.
One thing I learned, which I have tried on occasion, is slow roasting….. really slow. One sets the oven temperature to the temperature you want the finished food to be, and then ignore … Continue reading.....
