Visiting Florida farmers markets this time of year is so fun. It’s easy to find beautiful carrots with their greens attached, huge celery bursting with crunchiness, bright greens, deep purple eggplant, colorful peppers, big bunches of fresh herbs, and more. I don’t have a bag or basket big enough to carry everything I’d like…
Strawberries & Cinnamon Mascarpone
“It’s time to get off the sugar train!” I exclaimed to my hubby Monday morning. To my surprise, he said he was ready to disembark, too. As I write this, 96 hours have passed since deciding to cut out refined sugar and carbs (for one month, that is, in order to push the reset…
Kitchen Towels For Sale!
Remember the scene in the movie The Jerk when Navin Johnson (Steve Martin) gets a delivery of phone books? He grabs one from the delivery man, frantically flips through it to find his name, then shouts joyously “The new phone book’s here! The new phone book’s here!” That’s how I feel about my kitchen towels….
Farro Salad with Preserved Lemon, Basil & Edamame
Grain salad = easy + portable + hearty + healthy + delicious. I’ve made lots of them and have picked up a few tips to make them especially yummy: Any grain works. Each offers unique texture, so pick what you like like farro, wheat berries, barley, quinoa, spelt or millet. Wild grain rice is also…
Roast Cod with Kumquat-Kiwi Slaw
Valentine’s Day will be here soon! I’m sure there are many of you who relish an opportunity to enjoy a lovely dinner at a ‘nice’ restaurant on the big night, but my guy and I enjoy making dinner at home. We’ve been married almost 15 years and still have fun planning the main course together…
Field Trip Friday – Kumquat Festival
(Field Trip Fridays capture interesting, fun, food-related and/or fishing adventures that I like to share with you!) Taste of Chicago, Aspen Food and Wine Classic, South Beach Food & Wine Festival, and the New York City Wine and Food Festival — just a few of the many, well-known, high-end food festivals out there. But the ones…
Minestrone Soup
This veggie-packed soup is adapted from the Nika Hazelton recipe, as published in the NYT in 1973.
Winter Citrus Salad
Winter has a way of bringing a bit of gloominess to our homes, especially if we live in an area where clouds shield us from the sun for days and days and the weather seems to be assaulting us from all angles. Here in Florida, you may be surprised to learn that it’s not always…
It’s a New Year!
Happy New Year! I‘ve been on a much-needed hiatus from writing, busy enjoying family, travel, upgrading tech components (with a few more things to come) on my blog, AND creating flour sack kitchen towels! Here’s a peek: Getting the towels onto the blog for sale is taking longer than expected, but stay tuned and I’ll…
Hard at Work
Sorry folks, no recipe or post this week. I’m hard at work doing a little refresh on my blog, even adding a few hand-crafted items to sell, so please stay tuned — I’m hoping MDB 2.0 will be ready very soon. And in case I haven’t mentioned it lately, thanks for tuning in each week –…
Cold Poached Salmon
If you cook, you probably collect recipes from magazines, blogs and friends. I have oodles of notes and clippings that I periodically go through to decide which I still like, and I recently came across a post from Daniel Gritzer at Serious Eats regarding cold-poaching, so today’s the day to try it! But a little backstory first….
Field Trip Friday – “One Seed” Program
(Field Trip Fridays capture interesting, fun, food-related and/or fishing adventures that I like to share with you!) 2015 was the first time I heard about Sarasota County’s selection of Orphan Train for its “One Book, One Community” effort, sponsored by the Library system and the Historical Resources department (you might have a similar program in…
