Flour + Water By, Thomas McNaughton Finally a book from San Franciso's very popular restaurant Flour + Water. And it comes just in time for some cool weather cooking and in my house that means lots of pasta! This new cookbook inspires home cooks to create simple, creative and exquisite pasta ...
This Soup's for You!
With the recent transformation of my daughter from carnivore to vegetarian, my cooking challenges have suddenly become a whole lot more interesting. My skirt steak loving and lovely daughter Sofia is now a vegetarian and there’s no stopping her. She took one look at “the cutest pig in the world” on ...
Thank Goodness it’s Friday! (TGIF)
Thank Goodness it’s Friday! (TGIF) With two back to school nights in a row, it’s back to school for sure in my house! Battling the early morning hours and exhausted evenings, it was a busy week as we all did our best to adjust to the first full week of school. I managed to squeeze in two cooking ...
On Our Bookshelf September 2014
French Roots By, Jean-Pierre Moulle & Denise Lurton Moulle This lovely new cookbook captures the country lives of a couple defined and enriched by local and regional food. The book eloquently merges the old French rural way of cooking with the modern American way while revealing magical ...
Back to School Cooking with Friends!
Back to school and back to heavy duty cooking. And waking up early to make lunches, after school snacks, homemade cookies and a variety of dinners! As much as we busy moms may enjoy the new quiet in the house, our back to school routines will soon have stress as we juggle homework and activities ...
Sweet and Simple Morsels of Friendship
This is a simple story about how making ravioli refueled a friendship. My 15 year relationship with Debbie began in her kitchen as we cooked and created our way through young motherhood. With our children just in diapers, Debbie and I shared many of the same concerns and issues like what kinds of ...
Humble yet Hearty
I’m just back from another spectacular visit to the Algarve region of Portugal where simple food shines and descriptive words like “farm fresh” and “local” are most at home. I’ll confess that I didn’t cook a lot, though I did prepare humble lunches using basic yet fresh produce. I’d slice and ...
Southwestern Quinoa Salad
This is my go-to summer salad which I will make for every meal and barbeque all summer long. As the locally grown produce becomes available, the salad becomes better and better. Recipe source:cooking with friends kitchenIngredients1 quart cooked quinoa (cook in chicken broth with ¼ less liquid than ...
Memorial Day Marinades
The school year is swiftly coming to a close as each week ticks by toward summer. Though it’s been a slow start to spring and we’ve been able to keep our cooking indoors, with Memorial Day weekend about here, we’ll soon be moving most of our cooking outside as we light up our grills. What I find ...
Homemade Banana Cream Pie in Less than 15 Minutes
Homemade banana cream pie in less than fifteen minutes? Yes, it’s possible. And I don’t mean the kind you make with instant pudding (though that’s entirely acceptable). I mean the homemade hand whisked vanilla custard and graham cracker crust kind. Sounds completely impossible, or at least ...