Gluten Free Winter Lunch Menu
This delicious cool-weather menu is gluten free and includes a brothy fish soup, hot popovers (yes gluten free), and a super-most almond cake.
Winter Breakfast Salad
This is the season for Asian pears and pomegranates so I combined the two in this salad with shaved fennel and baby kale.
Roasted Vegetable and Garbanzo Bean Salad
As we all know, we must eat our vegetables! I wanted to make a vegetable dish that would last a few days and be just as good as a salad or a warm side dish. So I gathered some of my favorite vegetables and combined them, some cooked, some raw. And I topped it [...]
Zucchini Noodle Tomato Olive Salad with Ricotta Salata
I love Ricotta salata, it reminds me of my childhood.
Tuesday Night Supper
I took this week off from work. Didn't go anywhere, just hung around the house, puttered, tried new recipes, sat in the big soft brown chair and read. It was perfect. I managed to rouse myself to invite some friends over for dinner. I love midweek dinner parties because it's such a luxury to [...]
Cooking Class Continued
Class # 2 - Paella I took a survey of students prior to the class to see what folks wanted to learn. Many people said they wanted to learn more about seafood so I chose Paella as our topic since it would allow me an opportunity to discuss many food related things [...]
Grilled Steak Salad with Celery and Arugula
I love the classic Italian dish of grilled steak over arugula with shaved parmesan. This is my version of this. I wanted a kind of Caesar’s dressing for this salad, hence the salted anchovies. For those of you who haven’t tried them I highly recommend salted anchovies as a staple in your kitchen. Whole [...]
Grilled Chicken and Corn Salad with Avocado Cilantro Dressing
We are in full summer now, my favorite season, and the best time to have salad for dinner. Avocados and corn have been exceptionally good this summer and I wanted to incorporate them into my salad. I wanted my chicken grilled with a kick, and the rest of the salad cool and creamy. [...]
Panzanella
Somewhere in the late 80’s, early 90’s American’s discovered Panzanella. Funny since Italian women had been making it for centuries! And not just Italians, many other cultures have bread salads; the Arabic Fattouche is the first to come to mind. When I first discovered Panzanella I was captivated by it. I thought it was [...]
Kalitsunia
Here comes another Yiayia memory! Even though the woman had nine kids, worked like a dog every single day, and wasn’t a very good cook she repeatedly made two things that were both complicated and time consuming. One was a Greek pastry called Thiples or Xerotigina (same thing, two different names) which is strips [...]