In the forward of her delightful book, The Pepperidge Farm Cookbook, Margaret Ruskin writes: “Few things are more rewarding to a woman than that happy feeling she has when she knows that the food she has prepared with love and interest brings pleasure to her family, served in a setting more ...
Kitchen Chronicles
Happy Halloween with No Fuss Spiced Pumpkin Seeds
If there's one thing we love in my family, it's roasted and toasted pumpkin seeds. It's a tasty reward for all our messy work carving pumpkins. But we're not the ordinary salted seed family, we like to spice things up. Our two winning flavors are Jamaican Curry and Chipotle Cumin which tingle our ...
Breads and more breads!
There's been a bit of quiet in my blog the last two weeks and there's good reason. I don't have a kitchen right now and you all know how serious a matter this is to me. You see, the waste pipe in my second floor bathroom leaked through my ceiling destroyed my cabinets, microwave and stove. I know. ...
Let the Good Times Roll!
It’s back to school and the evidence is in my kitchen cooking with friends! All the rolling, crimping and freezing happens most often during the school year as my friends and I make healthy foods to serve our kids during these busy weeks. Today, Suzy made burritos while I crimped empanadas and ...
An Appleicious and Plum Fancy Weekend of Cake Making
One friend and one cake Saturday and another friend and another cake on Sunday! If you ask me, that's a pretty sweet way to spend the weekend. The first one, an orchard-fresh chunky apple cake and the second one, a fruit filled sugary plum cake. Sure, both were baked in spring form pans and made ...
Back to School Sauce!
For so many moms around my town, I’m hearing a common refrain. I’m confident to bet that it’s a national one! It goes something like this: “I’m ready for summer to end!” “Thank God school is starting!” “This is the summer that never ends!” But hold on ladies. . .is that what you really want? ...
Jamaican Veggie Fritters
My friends and students know by now that I’m an inspirational, improvisational cook, but if there’s ever been a better of example of a food which encapsulates my style, this is it! Some leftover veggies from an Asian class I taught Monday night in Westfield, plus the incentive to get creative for ...
Eggplant Tendonitis
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Eggplant tendonitis . . . yum . . . Sounds like some kind of phenomenal new dish, doesn’t it? Well, maybe not. But yesterday as I was cooking with friends, my physical therapist friend Suzy diagnosed me with tendonitis on my right wrist and since we were making baked eggplant I thought it a ...
Meatless Monday
Oh lovely eggplant sliced thickly, marinated in olive oil and garlic, breaded in an herbed panko and baked to crispy perfection, let me top you with some shaved parmesan at just the last moment! Come hither my dear brussel sprouts, allow me to slice you in half and toss you in a touch of lemon ...
Not even a little bit Irish but I love St. Patrick’s Day
“Mom, do we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day?” my little guy asked me other day. Without even the teeniest bit of Irish in my blood, I answered, “Of course we do!” I’m a holiday kind of girl, especially when it comes to food and any chance I can get to make something new or different I’ll take it! ...