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 [...]
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 [...]
You gots to LOVE bread pudding! What can be easier, save up bits and pieces of bread in the freezer and when you have enough, whip together a custard, pour it over the bread and bake and in 45 minutes or so you have a warm satisfying dessert or snack. Recently we were on [...]
Recently I was interviewed by Gary House from Food Blog Radio: http://www.foodblogradio.com Gary is on a mission to bring the people behind food blogs out into the open so that we can get to know them, learn what drives them, and what their creative process is. Gary spoke to me a few weeks ago, [...]
Looking at this menu I'm sure you think this is a Super Bowl party menu, and I completely understand why you'd come to that conclusion, but in fact it's all about what was on sale at the market. I'm not a sports enthusiast, never have been and more often than not have planned parties [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
