I"m always looking for interesting ways to cook fish. And I love making one pot meals. Not only is the clean up time reduced , but there’s something wonderful that happens when all the various components cook together and the flavors have a chance to meld… think beef pot roast, boeuf en daube, coq au…
Olive-Oil-Braised Carrots with Warm Spices
The Feb/Mar 2012 issue of Fine Cooking featured an article on olive-oil braised vegetables by Tamar Adler. In the introduction she describes this simple method of preparing these delicious tender vegetables…Just drizzle vegetables with good olive oil, and some fresh herbs or other aromatics, and put them in the oven to braise in their own…
Passover Sponge Cake Roll With Strawberries And Cream
The sponge cake roll in the photo above will be on the dessert menu this evening at our Seder. The recipe for the cake roll is from a little paperback book called You Don’t Have To Be Jewish To Be A Good Cook Book by Lois Levine and Karthryn Winer published in 1971. The recipe…
Coconut Macaroons for Passover
Passover begins Friday evening. At this time the Seder which is the ritual meal marking the beginning of the holiday will take place in Jewish homes everywhere. At this meal the story of the exodus of the Israelite slaves from Egypt is retold through special blessings, songs and the partaking of symbolic foods. While many…
Orecchiette With Italian Sausage, Swiss Chard And A Maple Glaze
I recently entered this dish in a contest offered by the online community Food52 for “Your Best Maple Recipe”. I love the combination of sausage and maple syrup. The best part of a breakfast of pancakes/french toast and sausage for me has to be swirling the sausage around in whatever maple syrup remains on my…
Avgolemono (Greek Egg And Lemon Soup)
This classic Greek soup derives its name from the two main ingredients: egg (avgo) and lemon juice (lemoni). My husband and I were first introduced to this soup at a little Greek cafe in our Chicago neighborhood almost 25 years ago. In the years since we have never found a version we liked as much. …
OUR OKAME FLOWERING CHERRY My husband took these photos of our Okame Cherry Tree, which we planted about 10 years ago…each year we look forward to the beautiful raspberry centered pink flowers heralding spring. Some years to our disappointment a frost abruptly ends the show…not this year…with our unusually warm early spring temps it is…
Lamb On Skewers With Tzatziki Sauce
Recently my sister-in-law was here for a visit and I prepared a Mediterranean dinner for the occasion. If you’ve been following this blog you already know how much we love Greek food at our house. Our dinner went something like this… We started with egg-lemon soup, which turned out to be really delicious, creamy and…
Baked Wild Salmon With Almond-Lime Sauce
For dinner last night I made Baked Wild Salmon With Almond-Lime Sauce. It’s been several weeks since I’ve really cooked because we recently returned from our trip to the west coast which included trips to LA, San Luis Obispo on the central coast (with a stopover for lunch in Santa Barbara), and San Francisco. To…
I apologize for being so neglectful of this blog for the last several weeks, but I do have good reason, so I hope I’m forgiven. WE ATTENDED THE OSCARS! I’m not at liberty to disclose how this all happened (just like all the secrecy that surrounds those nominations before the winner is announced), but let’s…