Baked Potato Pizza – Recipe
Here is one of our Pizza Night variations. My family loves the Baked Potato pizza made by one of our local pizzerias, so I thought I’d try to recreate it at home. It’s essentially a good crust topped with sliced…
Piccalilli Pepper Relish
Today, Piccalilli Pepper Relish is still a great way to use up all those sweet and hot peppers that start overflowing in July and August. It has a sweet and sour tanginess that is great as a condiment for pork roast or fried chicken, or greens. Like any good relish, you can also put it on hot dogs and in deviled eggs. You can really use it as a table condiment the same way you use salsa or ketchup.
Low Sugar Blackberry Jam
A step-by-step recipe to make low-sugar Blackberry Jam. We find our blackberries by being urban foragers - finding berries in the city.
Fig and Goat Cheese Pizza – Recipe
Making fig, goat cheese & prosciutto pizza at home with a homemade pizza crust, Fig/Onion Jam, adapted from a recipe found on The Food Network website.
The Mr. 404 cocktail
The Mr. 404 Cocktail combines the bittersweetness of the Aperol with the delicate flowery taste of the elderflower liqueur – St. Germain. Together, it has a pale orange color and a light, slightly sweet taste that reminds me of grapefruit juice.
Pimm’s Cup – a British cocktail for sunny days
In honor of Andy Murray finally winning the Wimbledon trophy for the Brits this week, I’m making the official cocktail of Wimbledon, the quintessential English summer cocktail – The Pimm’s Cup. The Pimm’s Cup is a classic English “fruit cup”… a cool, refreshing long drink made of Pimm’s No. 1 tonic and a lemony or gingery soda and slices of lemon, orange and cucumber.
Caipirinha – celebrating the World Cup with Brazil’s national drink
Similar to the mojito or the margarita, the caipirinha reigns supreme in Brazil. Like the margarita, the caipirinha is a lime sour - mixing spirits with sugar and lime juice. What sets it apart is the main ingredient - cachaça - a distilled spirit that is similar to rum.
Tofu Crab Cakes recipe
It's summer and some of the classic tastes of the season derive from our memories of trips to the beach. Fried clams, fresh oysters, shrimp boils, lobster rolls. Seafood evokes the smell of the ocean and the feel of the…
Making Hot Cross Buns at home – an Easter tradition
If you ever had to learn to play the recorder in elementary school, you probably learned the song “Hot Cross Buns”. "One ha’ penny, two ha’ penny." You know the one. If you’ve never actually eaten a hot cross bun,…
Pegu Club Cocktail
Like many classic gin cocktails, the Pegu Club Cocktail has its origins in the British Colonial Empire. The cocktail was named after the original Pegu Club in Rangoon, Burma - part of the British Empire during Victorian times and now, independent present-day Myanmar.
Eating Dandelion greens – the bitter, delicious truth
Foraging and cooking dandelion greens is a Southern tradition from way back. It's very much a part of the Appalachian Scots-Irish tradition of picking "potherbs" to serve as a salad or boiled up with a bit of salt pork. Especially in Spring, dandelions and other wild greens can be the first things to sprout in the yard, making them easy to forage.
Chocolate Truffle recipe – simple to make at home
Oh my. Valentine's Day is tomorrow and we are snowed in. No chance to run out for cards or flowers or chocolates. I'm going to have to improvise with what I have in the pantry. I do have some good…