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Porcini Mushroom Barley Soup
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
5 min read

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.
Homemade Pumpkin Pie
Thursday, November 14, 2013
7 min read

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…

Pickled Eggplant
Friday, October 25, 2013
3 min read

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.
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