It was truly a blessing to have our children around the Passover table with us this year. I have not posted on this blog for a couple of months. After surgery in December for my badly broken wrist from which I have recovered well, thanks to the help of an excellent surgeon and skilled…
Chicago Deep-Dish Pizza (or as I like to call it pizza bread)
Having lived in the Chicago area for 15 years we are big fans of Chicago style pizza! Known as deep-dish pizza, stuffed pizza or simply Chicago pizza, it is, as you probably are aware, vastly different from that of the many fantastic pizzas found in Italy, NYC, or almost anywhere else in the US of…
February Farmer’s Market Finds
Living on the central coast of California for the past four and a half years I am still in awe of the outstanding variety of produce available to us year round. Our local Saturday morning market is made up of an amazing number of stands selling everything from the freshest produce to flowers, plants, olive oils,…
Chicken Cacciatore
Chicken Cacciatore! I love saying it as much as I love eating it! Basically this dish is an Italian chicken stew but you have to agree Chicken Cacciatore sounds much more intriguing! “Cacciatore” means hunter’s style in Italian, and you will find countless versions of this dish. They will most often include onions, garlic,…
Chicken with Roasted-Garlic Pan Sauce
You may think we don’t need yet another recipe for roasting a chicken, but you might reconsider once you try this one for Chicken with Roasted-Garlic Pan Sauce in the September 2017 issue of Food and Wine magazine. I am still recovering from my broken wrist, but feeling more like myself these days. So, with…
Sheila’s Banana Cream Pie
I promised to post the recipe for this Banana Cream Pie which was part of my 2017 Thanksgiving dessert buffet. And since I’m becoming more proficient at typing with one hand now it seems a good time to share it with you. Good cream pies are a favorite of mine, particularly banana and coconut. This Banana…
Boeuf Bourguignon for a New Year’s Eve Dinner at Home
Happy New Year 2018! With my recent trauma of a seriously broken wrist and a fairly long recovery ahead of me it was clear we would be in for New Year’s Eve this year. On my first outing to the grocery store with my husband a few days before New Year’s Eve I suggested to…
Sufganiyot
(above photograph by John Kernick for Food and Wine magazine) Tuesday evening we lit the last candle on the Menorah ending the 8 days of Hanukkah, 2017. I had hoped to post this recipe for the above sufganiyot (Hebrew for doughnut) before the end of Hanukkah, but everything is taking me longer these…
Latkes 2017!
Tonight is the first night of Hanukkah, and I find myself at home recovering from a broken left wrist! A week and a half ago my husband and I decided to resume our tennis careers (very loosely speaking), and go hit the ball around at the new courts at the local high school. As…
Thanksgiving 2017
This Thanksgiving we were fortunate to have my sister and brother seated at our table as well as our children. They came for a visit, spending several days in LA before driving to San Luis with our son and daughter-in-law on Thanksgiving Day. They have each visited Slo before, but this is the first Thanksgiving…