When I was a kid, going out for Chinese food was a big deal. Back then, there wasn’t a Chinese restaurant on every block, but in the suburbs of Boston, we knew where to go, and after 40 years I still remember the aromas that greeted us at the China Plaza. The place was decked…
Greek Flavored Fish in Parchment
If someone said to me “I’ll pay you one million dollars to tell me your one favorite ethnic food” I’d be hard-pressed to answer, because I have two favorites — Italian and Greek. Basically, I’m putty in your hands if you give me a slab of lasagna, a bowl of baked Ziti, a plate of…
Mushroom & Leek Galette
If you don’t like mushrooms, you may want to move on from this post, because it’s all about the delicious fungi, and I simply cannot hide my adoration for them! But if you decide to keep reading, that would really be great 🙂 In my effort to reduce meat intake, I’ve been poring through vegetable-forward…
Strawberry Banana Yogurt Popsicles
The first day of Fall is next week, but that doesn’t stop me from making one last ditch effort to highlight a treat that’s fruity, COLD and fun. Now, I’m not one to have lots of gadgets in my kitchen, but I recently bought a $10 popsicle mold. Just for fun. Because, well, the pandemic. I’ve…
Roasted Stone Fruit with Orange & Vanilla
Sigh. . .stone fruit season is coming to a close! We’ve had a good run, but Fall is fast approaching and we’ll soon be focused on apples and hard squash. If you still have a bunch of peaches, plums, nectarines or apricots, but aren’t sure what to do with them (other than making cobbler or…
Field Trip Friday – Nokomis Beach
(Field Trip Fridays capture interesting, fun, food-related and/or fishing adventures that I like to share with you.) Today marks 30 consecutive mornings of beach swims at Nokomis Beach! My hubby and I started this effort to shake up our daily routine, and found ourselves swimming in all sorts of conditions, having tons of fun, and thankful…
Muffin Tin Herbed Potato Stacks
Have you heard of “COVID Cooking Fatigue”? You may not have heard about it, but I bet you’re feeling it! That’s because many of us these days are preparing 3 meals a day at home, 7 days a week. I don’t know about you, but it seems like whenever one meal is finished, I’m already…
Pasta with Cherry Tomato Sauce
Remember January, 2020, when anything was possible, we made resolutions and travel plans, and blissfully steered toward the road to adventure? We now have new routines, and what was mundane back then seems exciting today, like getting out of the house to visit the grocery store 🙂 My daily routine involves diving into work and…
No-Churn Coffee Ice Cream
There are some things that scream Summer, like dragging a cooler to the beach, lounging on a pool raft, eating watermelon on your back porch, buying roadside-stand tomatoes, and bellying up to an ice cream shop in your wet bathing suit. While I haven’t bellied up to an ice cream shop lately, I have fond memories of…
Panzanella with Peaches, Mint & Cucumber
Like many, I’ve been organizing drawers and closets lately – I guess it’s what we do when we have extra time on our hands, and are trying to regain some sense of control in our lives, in spite of uncontrollable circumstances. . . While sifting through photos, I came across these: I remember the day…
Too Many Kitchen Disasters. . .
Well, folks, this week’s post is really ‘no post.’ It seems that the kitchen gods were not shining brightly on me this week (maybe it’s Mercury in Retrograde?), too many things I have attempted have not ended well, and I have run out of minutes. . . The last time I wrote about my kitchen…
Fresh Peach Ice Cream
Summer offers so many delicious treats – grilled hot dogs (I like ‘em charred), piled-high burgers (with a tomato slab, of course), buttered corn, cold watermelon and, of course, stone fruits — I especially look forward to these (namely, peaches, plums, nectarines and cherries) because they’re in peak season, bursting with flavor. I’m sure at…