I’ve mentioned before that I love reading food memoirs, and one of my favorites is Judith Jones’ The Tenth Muse. . .My Life in Food. In it, she captures many wonderful stories about her experiences in the culinary literary world, including all the amazing chefs she had the privilege of knowing and working with, including…
Happy Holidays!
I’m lucky to be able to spend time with our visiting Chicago and New York family members this week, so I’m taking a break from blogging! I wish you all a very happy holiday season with your loved ones, too. Please enjoy this sweet illustration created by my artist hubby Brendan. It features our beloved…
Turnip Hash Browns
To be honest, when it comes to turnip, it took me a long time to become a ‘fan’. When I was a kid, one of my mother’s must-haves on the holiday table was mashed turnips and carrots. She said it was her favorite part of the meal and insisted they be the white-topped variety, known…
Apple Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Folks who know me best have heard me say “Anything is better with cream cheese frosting or bacon,” and a combination of the two is simply over-the-top deliciousness, in my book. Today we’re talking about cream cheese frosting. I simply adore it, especially when it’s on my favorite Apple Cake. I’ve written about this cake…
An Insider’s View to Stone Crabbing
This article titled Inside Look: Sarasota Stone Crabbing was originally published at Visit Sarasota. Please follow them on their website or through social media! In what seems a lifetime ago, my husband and I owned a marina shipstore in Nokomis — a busy dock on the Intracoastal Waterway that had a long history of serving…
Mizuna, New Potatoes and Lemon Vinaigrette
If you’ve ever bought a bag of mixed baby greens, you’ve likely had some young Mizuna in there and didn’t even know it. Or, you may have walked right by a bunch of Mizuna at the farmer’s market and never considered what to do with it. Well, today’s your lucky day, because you’ll now know…
Komatsuna with Creamy Polenta
If you consider bitter things, you might think of foods that are possibly poisonous, or remedies that make you feel better because they force you to expel items you shouldn’t have ingested in the first place. Bitter flavors are definitely welcome in a cocktail like a Manhattan, an Old Fashioned or a Rob Roy, but…
Summer Squash Gratin
If you ever had a garden up north, you know that late summer is when all your summer (tender skinned) squash comes into its own and you have so much that you don’t know what to do with it! When I was a kid, my mom made delicious squash bread, fritters, hash, cakes and quiches,…
Butternut Squash Soup
Our long-awaited Florida Fall is here! Temperatures have dropped and the humidity is all but gone! Not only did I open all the windows in my house, but I’ve also been busy in the kitchen prepping squash recipes. Today it’s a batch of warm, creamy soup using Butternut — one of my favorite winter squashes because…
Field Trip Friday – Smoked Mullet Festival
(Field Trip Fridays capture interesting, fun, food-related and/or fishing adventures that I like to share with you!). Florida offers so many big attractions, as well as, small backroads events that sometimes it’s hard to keep up. Figuring out what we’ll do each weekend is a fun project in our house because my husband and…
Spicy Roasted Acorn Squash
Now that winter squashes are in season, I’m a happy girl. I can’t get enough Butternut, Acorn, Hubbard and Kabocha 🙂 But this post is about one particular squash. . .Acorn. You know, that adorable dark green squash with the unique shape that resembles an acorn? Like many winter squashes, it’s packed with stuff like…
Roasted Okra
If you’ve been following me for a while, you know that I am definitely not from the South. . . Still, I’m fascinated by Southern cooking traditions that include delicious dishes like collard greens, BBQ, corn bread, brisket, creamed corn and fried chicken. With one exception: Okra. Okra is something I haven’t been able to convince…