Healthy recipes, Italian cooking recipes and weekly menus for families.
Yesterday I told you about my trip to the farmer’s market and all the produce I bought. With the tomatoes I made this dish also using eggplant from my garden. [Melanzane is Italian for ‘eggplant.’] This is what I picked from my garden after being gone for a week. The tomatoes are wonderful but the plants… Read More
My neighbor’s garden is bulging with banana peppers and before he left for a month long trip, he offered his garden’s bounty to us. Today I dropped in to see what was ripe and was amazed at the quantity of peppers! However, besides slicing them into salads, I didn’t know what else to do with… Read More
Wow. That’s the reaction I got to this new dish. Seriously. I came up with it on a whim. I had read about roasting tomatoes in the winter to bring out the tomato’s natural sweetness. For some strange reason that idea popped into my head today as I looked at the bowl of cherry tomatoes… Read More
I am teaching a Summer Cooking School series beginning tomorrow night. The idea began when a friend of mine asked me to show her some more simple recipes. I had cooked with her one night and she subsequently has made that same recipe several times for her family and wanted to learn some more easy… Read More
I was baking something and noticed that I was running out of baking powder and I had read that you can make your own. A quick internet search led me to a recipe. I increased the quantity by using ratios (math lesson!) and came up with the following recipe: · 1 T baking soda · … Read More