Several of us daughters of the Dimotakis family have birthdays in January and February, and those of us who live close to each other have made it our tradition to get together during our birthday months to have lunch or dinner at Kokkari, our favorite local Greek restaurant and today was the day. Typically [...]
Yesterday was time for the annual cooking club tea. We've been getting together for 17 years now! We aren't as committed as we were 17 years ago, in the past we got together about 6-8 times a year, now we're at one or two times a year, but we still get together, and thats [...]
When I’m off over the holidays I love having everyone over for brunch. It’s so luxurious to gather earlier in the day with the whole day ahead of us for chatting and laughing. Ideas in several new cookbooks intrigued me and they defined the menu. I couldn’t make up my mind about what recipe [...]
Being me, I started buying kitchen equipment before I even moved out of the house. I had a complete kitchens worth of tools and dish wares when I did finally move, but didn't have a bed. I borrowed my brother's air mattress for several months. The family joke was I could sleep on [...]
We started with tasting salts and sugars and we ended with spices and a brunch. The semester flew by and we had our last class this past Friday. We ended up combining two topics. I wanted to touch upon spices, show everyone how easy and economical it is to make a spice rub. By [...]
We had several non cooking classes after our class on Pasta. We were very lucky to have Ronna Kabatznick, the author of The Zen of Eating come and conduct a class. Ronna took us through the stages of mindful eating and posed some interesting questions for us to explore about our relationship with food. [...]
Thanksgiving is one of my all time favorite holidays, not a surprise since it's all about feasting. When I was a kid my parents hosted it and we would have around 40 people attend. Since almost every holiday was 40 or more, this didn't seem odd to me. What was odd was when in [...]
I recently bought some hazelnut flour to use in a recipe for gluten free muffins, it's the recipe in the October issue of Whole Living Magazine and it's really good, here's the link. However that meant I still had the rest of the package of hazelnut flour to use up and nut flours don't last [...]
One of the ways I can get people to eat more vegetables is to bathe them in cream and caramelized onions. I think that's fair, don't you? This recipe can be made with just about any vegetable, but this time of year I want the orange, sweet taste of butternut squash. It really perks [...]
Last Friday the topic of the day was pasta. It's a great topic, one that everyone can participate in and like Pizza really get their hands in some dough. I chose two recipes. The first was Pasta Aglio Olio, a quick satisfying classic dish and the second was Spinach Pasta with Mushrooms and Fennel. [...]
