I know that when most of us think of sweet potatoes we think of the fall, but lately I can't get enough of them. I spent the entire month of March exploring roasted sweet potatoes and toppings. What I do is buy two or three small sweet potatoes, wash them, slice them in half [...]
This summer I created recipes for The Anti-Inflammatory Diet & Action Plans, which wa released on October 21st! The Anti-Inflammatory Diet & Action Plans is a cookbook with four different meal plans and over 130 recipes that serve one purpose—healing your inflammation. Whether you love carbs or hate them, need meat or eschew it, there’s an anti-inflammatory diet that’s [...]
Bet you haven't heard that word before! That's Greek for (female) cousin and last week I invited a bunch of my cousins over, and as is typical, it's the girl cousins who came. I made kalitsunia (ricotta filled fried turnovers), butternut squash gratin, galactobouriko (custard filo dessert), kalouria (simple cookie), and cinnamon iced tea and my lovely [...]
My nieces came over for dinner yesterday. It was dinner and Skype day, a way for us to all visit with Claire. I always let them choose what they'd like to eat and they requested Greek, so this time I did an easy Greek family dinner. The kind of dinner we had often growing [...]
Hell ya! Claire won't be coming home for Thanksgiving this year so we did what every red blooded American does, we used that as an excuse to have Thanksgiving in August! Thanksgiving is one of my favorite meals...and is a lovely surprise when eaten off season. Because of the hot weather this was Thanksgiving "light". I mean [...]
A few weeks ago I had invited a couple of friends over for a nice weekend lunch. My friends love it when I cook Greek so I decided to do a Greek inspired menu. I had originally planned on a Swiss chard pie, Potato Wedges fried in Olive Oil, an Orange Walnut Cake with Honey [...]
I had some very expensive uber high quality sprouted blue cornmeal in my pantry which I noticed was about to expire. That's one of my issues, I love trying out new products but after an initial recipe or two I forget and move onto the next new ingredient. When I worked at Whole Foods [...]
Recently I had the pleasure to develop 12 recipes using several different brands and varietals for a wine broker.
For many, many, many years I gave a NY Day party. It started as a NY Eve party when I was in my late teens or early 20's, and then as time progressed it moved to a NY brunch, and then since no one (including the party giver) wanted to get up in time for [...]
For many years I and many of my friends were given a free turkey from our employers. Most of us worked in the food business and typically folks in this industry gift their staff a holiday bird. We started a tradition of having a second Thanksgiving. One Thanksgiving with our family and a second one [...]
