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.
Making Pizza Dough at Home – Recipe
Making your own pizza dough at home is really not that complicated. It just takes a little ahead-of-time planning. If you are planning pizzas for dinner, you will need to start your pizza dough in the afternoon. For my Pizza…
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.
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.
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.
Porcini Mushroom Barley Soup
The Italians, especially the Tucsons, use porcini mushrooms, fresh or dried, in sauces, risottos and stews. When you buy them dried, they have a very concentrated savory mushroom aroma. Because I could not bring home the fresh porcini, I was happy to bring home a few vacuum packs of the dried mushrooms as a souvenir of Tuscany.
Easy Thai Tomato Coconut Soup
One cool trick that I've learned is to make tomato soup from canned tomatoes. I always keep cans of diced tomatoes in the pantry. If I dig a little deeper, I can usually find a can of coconut milk, too. So, if I just add some onion, garlic, celery, pepper and fresh basil & ginger, I have a delicious, creamy Thai-flavored Tomato Coconut soup that I can make in about 15 minutes.
Multi-Colored Ham Vegetable Quiche
If it's been a while since I've been to the market for groceries, it can be challenging to come up with dinner. If I dig around in my fridge, most of the time I have eggs, cream, vegetables, cold cuts…
Autumn Pear Sidecar cocktail
With the end of the hot weather, I think it's time to put away the fruity, fizzy drinks of summer and return to the warmer amber spirits. I do love the classic cocktails that use brandy, rye, and whiskey as…
Homemade Sauerkraut – fermented foods at home
It's almost October and the cool weather has started settling in, even here in the muggy South. There is something about the cooler temperatures that sends me back into the kitchen to make food. And one of those foods that is…