The expression, pulling out all the stops refers to opening the air flow to all the pipes of a pipe organ. In other words, it reaches it fullest sound, its maximum potential. When I first heard that the Tomkats Group, was pulling out the stops to build a new restaurant in the Pinnacle building, I…
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Tuscan White Bean Bruschetta with Crispy Kale and Prosciutto
Continuing down the bean path, I am reminiscing about a trip we once took to Tuscany. We ended up eating lunch one day at a small outdoor cafe in the middle of nowhere in a town called Volpaia. No one spoke English, except Azura, our guide. We ordered several bruschetta including one with a hot…
Pennsylvania Dutch Pork and Sauerkraut, A Lighter Version
I grew up in Pennsylvania where food traditions are embedded in a serious and delicious way. I wrote more about it here. The Pennsylvania Dutch food influence is so strong that you can guarantee that every single household in the area I’m from will be cooking the same exact dish. Pork and sauerkraut will either…
Purple Potatoes with Blue Cheese
How do you marry an 8,000 year old root from South America with a cheese from France or Italy? I’m talking about purple potatoes and blue cheese (or gorgonzola). Both foods are sexy and have a story. The rumor is that blue cheese was discovered in a cave after a young man left his curds…
Snowcap Heirloom Bean Soup with Shrimp, Green Olives, Lime
When I go to Napa, I equally enjoy the food shopping as I do the restaurants. This recipe incorporates Rancho Gordo snowcap beans and Round Pond Estates hot sauce. I bragged about Rancho Gordo before and will probably do so again and again. This is a personal endorsement, not a paid one, and I’m not…
Cooking Italy: Radicchio with Warm Bean Salad
This is a simple salad to kick off the March schedule of Cooking Italy. What I love the most about this group of home cooks is our google group. Not only do we discuss the ingredients that sometimes are not so easy to find, or the outcome of the recipes we cook, we overflow with…
Borscht, the Elixer of Soups; Brown Bread with Watermelon Radishes
The snow fell in colors of white and silver. White by day in big fluffy snow flakes, keeping all the neighbor kids out of school and silver by night in sleet and icy rain, keeping all the adults grounded in the suburbs. This should happen more often. Magical things (aside from the fantastic glitter of…
Arrosticini Abruzzesi – Skewered Marinated Lamb Tidbits
Today we visit Abruzzo, and prepare a dish the shepherd’s made on their outside campfire. Looking at the boot, Abruzzo is the lower half in central Italy. Lamb is the signature meat of this region. This is yet another simple recipe where the time is in the waiting, and the taste is in the fat…
Pick a Peck of Purple Foods
I started noticing how much I’m drawn to purple food when I eyed my first purple sweet potato just a few weeks ago at Whole Foods. One of my most popular purple posts is Purple Sweet Potato Fries. I then started researching purple food just because I was curious (and google makes it easy), and I…
Our Favorite Food Eaten in Italy
It’s almost cliche to say that Italy changed my food life. Even though I was raised in an Italian foodie family that cooked the healthiest, seasonal whole food, before that became “the thing,” Italy changed my food life, because Italy changed my husband. He returned to the states with an Italian palate and a love…
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