Food, Travel, and Cooking!
You know all the favourite little places you have for picking up the things you need or don’t know you need until you see it; the places you have been cultivating for a long time, getting to know the owners, customers coming and going, speaking Italian, practicing your Italian? You’re having so much fun that […]
August for us is “zucchini/tomatoes” 24/7! Tomatoes and zucchini prepared in as many guises as we can come up with! Lucky for us that besides the Sun Gold cherry tomatoes that I grow each year, there’s a guy that I refer to as the “Tomato Whisperer.” He grows outstanding tomatoes on his organic farm near […]
Sometimes we all gripe about Facebook gremlins or having to un-friend someone for some reason or the other. Where situations arise where we are left unfortunate and unwelcome comments demanding that we delete that individual from our friends list. Sadly, this does take place. But we also have a platform at our fingertips that enables us to connect […]
You bet I do…I love the stuff! And can hardly wait, each year, when locally grown lettuce is available at our farmer’s market. My husband Joe and I have had an ongoing “discussion” about the quantities of lettuce I think we should eat for years. When we got married I stepped up and said I […]
A “guest article” for Oracibo…..me? I sent an email to Phyllis extolling the wonders of the Internet for finding recipes and she suggested I write an article so here goes. Do you travel? My husband and I spent a couple of months each winter renting a casita (a two bedroom condo type place) on a […]
A while back I was reading blog about making Corzetti, a pasta shape that has been made since the middle ages. Well…once I clapped eyes on those beautiful disks of pasta imprinted with designs that reminded me of ancient coins, I just knew I “needed” to find those stamps and make the pasta! Here’s the […]
It would be almost impossible for me not to post about my love of tomatoes! Where in the world would I be without them or where would the world be without them? My friend and author of many cookbooks, Marlena Spieler totally understands what I laughingly refer to as my addiction. My husband often tells […]
Our second morning in Florence a few years ago we visited the Mercato Centrale, a totally amazing place. The sight of the fabulous fruits and veggies on offer; it’s a cooks heaven! The selection of fish, meats, fresh pastas and breads was outstanding. There was a stall devoted to nothing but selling offal! The Mercato […]
We were visiting London for a week in 2010 and other than being at Heathrow on previous trips, it was my very first time in England. Me…the English history nut! So, what’s one of the first things we want to do on your first morning in London after leaving our rented apartment was to go […]
It’s the trendy thing these days that’s good for you and I’m not talking kale! It’s… the envelope please “Bone Broth”…that’s right, it all begins with bones, roasted then simmered with water, veggies and a bit of apple cider vinegar, for hours and hours. Bone broth has long been used in cultures all over the […]