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…
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.
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.
Pumpkin Pie from scratch
Thanksgiving is in a couple of weeks and I'm already starting to plan for the annual feast. If your family is like ours, then the Thanksgiving holiday is a time when you put aside new recipes and return to traditional…
Fresh Green Bean Casserole from scratch
If you break it down, Green Bean Casserole is just green beans, plus a creamy mushroom sauce with a crunchy onion topping. If you just change the canned green beans to fresh and make a simple cream sauce with sauteed mushrooms, you're almost there.
Homemade Potato Gnocchi with quick tomato sauce
Gnocchi is Italian for "little lumps", which describes it perfectly. Gnocchi are like light little lumps of potato goodness. When they are done correctly, they should be as "soft as clouds". They are pressed with grooves to hold onto a sauce, making them pair perfectly with a basic homemade tomato sauce.
Italian Pickled Eggplant
As part of apertivo in Fano, Italy, I had eggplant that was delicious. I've had plenty of marinated or roasted eggplant before, but this was a tangy, raw eggplant pickle. When I came home, I knew that I had to try to make pickled eggplant myself.
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.
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…
Dutch Baby Pancake
Dutch baby pancake, or German oven pancake, is an easy breakfast dish that is sure to impress.