When I was a little girl, hominy (reconstituted dried corn), was something that came in cans, waiting for my mother to heat up in a pot on an occasional Saturday morning. She served the engorged soft kernels warm, in bowls with butter, salt and pepper – simple, on its own as one would eat a [...]
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Category Archives: Appetizers
Letting Things Fall
August 31, 2011 – 10:15 am
As we ease into fall, the nights are cooler, yet the days are sunny enough to keep a dewey shimmer on the skin. The cooking in my kitchen is reflective of what is available with the seasons. I can’t get enough of the fantastic offerings from our farmer’s markets as my burgeoning refrigerator can attest. [...]
Savory Wild Mushroom and Green Garlic Custards a la din din
May 11, 2010 – 4:37 pm
Wednesday evening, April 21. IACP 2010 Opening Reception: The ballroom of the very zexxxy The Nines was alive and buzzing with energy emitting from many of the 900 attendees of the 32nd annual IACP Conference held in the fantastic host city of Portland, Oregon. The large main room was jumping with guests exalted practically to [...]
Artichoke Therapy
April 23, 2010 – 12:46 pm
My mother always told me that she found the act of cleaning and preparing vegetables therapeutic. At the time of that statement, as I watched her remove hundreds of tiny, hair-like roots from a huge mound of creamy white bean sprouts destined for a hot blast in the wok, I didn’t quite get it. More [...]
Warm up With a Spicy Dish, Hot Flow and a Cleveland Yoga giveaway!
March 5, 2010 – 9:41 am
Returning to the brutal cold and snow of my Motherland, Cleveland, after spending a lazy sunkissed week in the Mexican Yucatan was just plain old rude re-entry for this self-proclaimed freeze baby. Brrrrr. One snow angel at the first deep snowfall and I am DONE. Once home, I dropped the backpack that carried floaty little [...]
The Recipe That Got Away
February 28, 2010 – 9:49 pm
Back in October of ’08, I was busy in the kitchen, working happily up to my elbows during the recipe testing phase for Michael Symon’s…Live To Cook book. It was during this time that I was presented with a recipe for pickled lamb’s tongue – remember this post?
Broccoli Tahini Spread
December 9, 2009 – 2:21 pm
The holiday season beckons – bedecked and bejeweled with limitless temptation for overindulgence and overdoing – food, drink, social activities, work, and if you are someone like me who has a difficult time saying “enough!”, it also arrives with ample opportunity for self-neglect. Running on foods that don’t necessarily feed the body, dehydration, not getting [...]
Very Special Baked Apples From James Beard
November 19, 2009 – 2:50 pm
A simple treasure culled from my mom’s recipe box, as written:
Not Chopped Liver
September 25, 2008 – 5:17 am
Please take me at my word: this vegetarian spread, lush with toasted hazelnuts and heady apple brandy is every bit as luxurious as any true liver pate. Big, meaty nuances are imparted by the inclusion of barley miso and umeboshi paste. With liberties, I’ve adapted this recipe from the walnut-lentil pate in the Angelica Home [...]
Cookbook Gestation
July 10, 2008 – 6:49 am
When project Symon Says…Live To Cook is finished, I’m going to be suffering some serious post-partum. Keftedes (Mom’s little meatballs) Yield: approximately 20 keftedes Adapted from Chef Michael Symon 1/2 cup minced or grated onion 1 clove garlic, smashed beneath the flat side of a knife and roughly chopped Canola oil for pan frying 1 [...]
