While shopping for my Pumpkin soup for my Friday with Fergus I couldn’t resist the winter veggies calling my name! A woman doesn’t live by pork alone! We are getting ready for our Big Pork Blogging Weekend, have you sent us a recipe? I adore salads in the winter, and the fresh puntarelli, from the…
To Market to Market
My market, San Lorenzo,also known as the Mercato Centrale, Central Market Upstairs, there are several vegetable purveyors that have some fabulous mushrooms in season, Porcini being the local specialty. (This is no longer the upstairs, it was restored and revamped in 2014) There are one or two fish mongers that have their own boats, Mom’s…
Bye Bye Julia
I think Julia Childs taught us all to cook and to have a sense of humor while we cook! Thank you Julia. I am so glad she left us with lovely volumes of recipe and great video from her tv show. She will live on in our kitchens. My favorite memory of Julia is her…
Death by Chocolate
This year went by so fast and got a little out of control. I was luckily very busy this fall, making up for the lack of work due to Sadam and SARS. But the summer heat ( record in 300 years!) also made my computers crazy and impossible to BLOG. I have finally caught up…
Watermelon Ice!
Today I got watermelon that was just out of the field, fabulous. I came home and made some granita which will help in this horrible heat wave we are having. This is a Sicilian recipe which I have simplified for my taste. There is nothing like the simplicity of Sicilian granita made with fresh…