Appetizers such as these Peperoncini Stuffed with Salmon Dill Cream always got short shrift in our house so I didn’t grow up with any family specialties to share with you here. My mom used to say that she couldn’t understand why anyone would want to fill their guests up with food right before you sat […]

Today is Mother’s Day (and this is my 100th post!) and I think it is perhaps the first Mother’s Day that I am not actually going to see my Mom. Long story, nothing tragic, but I thought since I won’t see her I would connect with her by sharing one of the early recipes she […]

I’ve already admitted to not really loving the taste of hard boiled eggs. It would seem, however, that I am not alone when it comes to people and their “egg-phobias”. For everyone like me who prefers not hard boiled eggs (I always ask for no egg on my Cobb Salad) there is someone who can’t […]

I was going through some of the pictures I had in my camera just now and chuckled when I got to this picture. I made these last week but now it seems like so long ago. You see, we had two huge buffet feasts over the weekend… When I roasted these chickens, things were still […]

All those summer cocktails have me a bit flushed so I thought I would share a light lunch or dinner recipe that uses up any of those beefy, homegrown tomatoes you might have sitting around. I wasn’t very happy with my last try at a tomato tart. Oh sure, it fit the bill. It was […]

Cherry Tomato Tarts for Lunch The picture doesn’t do these justice. Inspired by two boxes of cherry tomatoes in last week’s Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) box and the discovery of two mini-tart pans in our semi-annual weekend garage cleanout, I set out to make a savory tart for lunch. As good as these were, I […]