This kiwi fruit tart was practically free! Talk about generous! Each Tuesday the company where I work fills up our staff kitchen with fruit for us to snack on all week long. I know what you must be thinking right now and yes, I do have a day job thankyouverymuch. But yeah, this […]
Frenchified Popcorn
The day after Thanksgiving always brings a ton of cooking and chef supply catalogs in the mail. Do you get as many as I do? I page through and admire the many “fantasy” holiday table settings, linens and cooking gadgetry and then try hard to resist the urge to purchase as they try hard to […]
November 29, 2011 by 15 Comments
Twenty Minute Honey-Glazed Duck Breasts
A good savory duck dish reminds me of the way chicken used to taste 20 years ago before the chicken industry turned most grocery market chicken into the mostly tasteless vehicle for sauce we have grown all to familiar with these days.
November 25, 2011 by 22 Comments
Lamb Tagine with Chickpeas and Apricots
Today is Wednesday, and with this post, I am beginning to see the value of food blogging memes such as “Wordless Wednesday“, “Photos Only Fridays“ and my favorite: “Only Recipes on Every Other Month’s Second Thursday“. I would normally eschew all things “wordless” as wordlessness is not a value I would normally cleave to. Please don’t act […]
November 23, 2011 by 12 Comments
Vanilla Bourbon Bundt Cake aka “Bundt Cake Gladys”
Perhaps you have heard the seasonal music playing in stores around town and wondered how this momentous day seems to arrive earlier and earlier each year? Familiar smells of the season catch your notice as they waft through neighborhood kitchens. You then begin to realize, yup, its that time. Yes, its National Bundt Day today which means […]
November 15, 2011 by 21 Comments
My Grandma’s Saffron Poached Pears
Saffron Poached Pears These are my grandmother’s pears. The recipe comes from the quirky handwritten recipe books she left behind. A dessert so beautiful and so easy to make. It could never be said that her recipe style tilted to the exotic so its surprising that she even knew what saffron was. They […]
November 11, 2011 by 12 Comments
Zinger Blended Herbal Iced Tea
Blah blah blah.As you can see I am somewhat at a loss for words these days. The fellow Food bloggers I’ve been running into this weekend at the Food Buzz Festival have been telling me that this is normal and I shouldn’t get too concerned. “Its perfectly normal! It happens to everyone!” No man […]
November 4, 2011 by 11 Comments
Pissaladière the easy way
French Fridays with Dorie The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear. -Gandhi I don’t know about you but I saw a lot of irrational ‘fear of the unknown’ out there this last week in Doritistan . Who knew so many Doristas were going to be so afraid, […]
October 24, 2011 by 22 Comments
Saffron Coconut Ice Cream
Don’t you love a sure thing? I’m not referring to “Sure Thing” as in the 1980’s definition of the term implying someone who can be counted on to deliver sex on a date. Don’t get me wrong…if I recall correctly those kind of sure things could be nice too and they certainly have their place […]
October 22, 2011 by 19 Comments
BLT Salads – ”Deconstructed”
I’m stuck here all alone in the house today. The clothes washer decided to break last night and the kindly repair man has given us a 5 hour window for him to show up today. As of now I am in the tail in of the 4th hour. Care to give me odds? When my […]
October 1, 2011 by 27 Comments
