Indian Spiced Roast Beets!
This recipe is really different and so good. I love roasted beets on a salad with goat cheese and toasted walnuts. And then we have a family Polish dish of lightly pickled beets with horseradish that...
View ArticleThe cranberries!
Once again, over the years I have tried many different cranberry sauces and relishes. One year, I even did a Martha Stewart version of putting her cranberry sauce recipe mounded on top of halves of...
View ArticleA different chicken dish!
Sesame Braised Chicken with Shiitake, Daikon & Ginger This is a great Sunday dish, as it does take some time. It’s a Melissa Clark recipe from The New York Times that I have altered, again. Not...
View ArticleHerbes de Provence and fresh ginger
Okay, so we got a little respite from Steve’s diet with the beet and tangerine salad in my last posting. I obviously made that before he went on this diet. Hope you will try it as I know you’ll love...
View ArticleSumac!
Sumac is a wonderful spice – not the poisonous kind but lemony and nice! It is used in many Arab, Iranian and Turkish cuisines. I like to use it on roast chicken or roasted vegetables. They say you...
View ArticleTest kitchen tours!
Yesterday was such an interesting, exhilarating and exhausting day!! I enjoyed a day of touring test kitchens as part of Internet Week here, as a guest of Anna Curran from Cookbook Create, a site where...
View ArticleCarrot Ginger Soup – Perfect to Start New Year’s Eve Dinner
Having to cook “clean” – low fat – for my son has forced me to get creative and explore new territory I might not otherwise have tried, and this Carrot Ginger Soup is one of those dishes. I made this...
View ArticlePork with Ginger, Spring Onions and Eggplant – An Ottolenghi Recipe
I have a marvelous neighbor named Marilyn. She takes care of my plants when I am away, keeps an extra set of keys for me when I get locked out and enjoys good food and wine. I try to have her over for...
View ArticlePork Chops with Ginger Blackberry Sauce
My lead construction guy told me, with a wry smile, that this would be my “last supper” in my kitchen. You see, I am completely renovating my kitchen in the city apartment and this recipe that I threw...
View ArticleGinger-crusted Halibut
Beautiful deliciousness in dappled sunlight! I adore halibut. And I love ginger. So I made up this dish of Ginger-crusted Halibut, not sure how it would really work and it was amazing! You must have...
View ArticlePork with Ginger, Spring Onions and Eggplant – An Ottolenghi Recipe
I have a marvelous neighbor named Marilyn. She takes care of my plants when I am away, keeps an extra set of keys for me when I get locked out and enjoys good food and wine. I try to have her over for...
View ArticlePork Chops with Ginger Blackberry Sauce
My lead construction guy told me, with a wry smile, that this would be my “last supper” in my kitchen. You see, I am completely renovating my kitchen in the city apartment and this recipe that I threw...
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