Summertime is here and I begin cooking dinner after everyone has left for the day. In our old house, the kitchen can easily become the hottest room. I can fully understand before the advent of air conditioning how, many years ago, the kitchen was completely separate from the main house.
By Erica Galindo – You’ll be transported to the French Caribbean when you taste these delectable morsels of Gulf-water shrimp! Tropical flavors of luscious mango, sweet coconut, and just a dash of spicy roasted jalapeno pepper will wow even the most well-traveled dinner guest. Growing up I often experienced the
One of Rome’s iconic dishes is spaghetti cacio e pepe. It’s deceptively simple with few ingredients – spaghetti, pecorino romano cheese, cracked blacked pepper and pasta water. I’ve eaten it at several places in Rome, but no where prepared better than at Roma Sparita, a restaurant in Trastevere. If the weather
Completely You: Food By Karen Cicero for Completely You It’s salad season! With locally grown veggies, fresh herbs, and grilled fish or meat, summer salads are scrumptious. But don’t sabotage their amazing flavor and health benefits by tossing them with a dressing that’s full of saturated fat, sodium and preservatives.
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point…” C. S. Lewis, Screwtape Letters “We are what we read,” David McCullough said. “We get our ideas from what we read. So it’s extremely important when we try to understand the past,
I am so happy to report the first three zucchinis of the season have been harvested from my garden! I only have one plant but that one takes up a lot of raised bed property and with only two of us… I am sure we will have plenty. In spite
Completely You: Food By Densie Webb for Completely You When you’re busy (and who isn’t?), it’s tempting to take shortcuts — especially when it comes to the first meal of the day. But instead of sloughing off breakfast, start off on the right food and set the tone for a
I am a little behind on my posting of the Julia Child recipes – I am participating in an event celebrating Julia Child’s upcoming 100th birthday. For Father’s Day I prepared this amazing chocolate cake – Reine de Saba – Chocolate and Almonds. This is a very rich, delicious cake
Completely You: Food By Nancy Kalish for Completely You Love getting takeout? So do I. But I don’t love the fact that it often comes loaded with extra calories, fat and sodium. For example, an innocent-sounding dish like eggplant in garlic sauce from your local Chinese restaurant can actually set
Last Friday, my husband, daughter and I had appointments to see the eye doctor. It is that time of the year to have the annual check-up. I’ll go into more detail in another post the results of our visit. We traveled one hour to the doctor and afterwards my husband
Last night I dreamed I found a miniature dinosaur in the suitcase I unpacked from my recent trip to Italy. (I’ll return to sharing more posts and recipes from that trip shortly.) Anyhow, so this was a real dinosaur in my dream – kind of like a tyranosaurus rex, but
Simple Pleasures by Cornelia Guest I was simply delighted by the opportunity to review this intriguing cookbook. I am not a ‘vegan’ but I do appreciate the importance and value of eating well. I began to read Cornelia’s cookbook and could not put it down. This is more than a cookbook, it
By Francesca Pucher – What You Will Need: ½ Cup of cooked Quinoa (in water) 2 oz of Unsweetened Almond Breeze Dash of Cinnamon 1/3 cup fresh berries Make your Quinoa according to package and place in the fridge overnight for use in the morning. Take your Quinoa and place
Life & Beauty Weekly: Happy You By Catherine Ryan for Life & Beauty Weekly Mortgage payments, gloomy headlines, critical bosses: It’s no wonder you’re sometimes too wound up to sleep! But having bedroom decor that invites relaxation can make all the difference. “After a day in your busy life, you
“Some combinations become famous just because the mixture was such a happy one that it has lived on and on, pleasing successive generations of palates. Salade Niçoise is certainly one of these, and so famous that arguments exist as to what is the real ting. Being a great fan of
The sunflowers I planted in my cutting garden bed are tightly closed but will open soon! I really love zinnias. They’re so easy to grow from seed here and come in such beautiful colors. Get a package of seeds and try them if you’ve never grown them. You won’t be
Rome has at least 50 museums where you can see everything from paintings to pasta, and I’ve spent a fair amount of time in a majority of them over the years. But I’ve learned that when you’re traveling, it’s nice to step away from museums sometimes and do something a
Happy Monday! Here is my latest recipe for Muffin Monday. I’m a huge donut/doughnut fan and miss them terribly. I have dreams about maple bars, apple fritters and old fashioned donuts. I know in theory I could make them myself but I’m not a fan at all of deep frying
I’ve been back for only a few days and I’m already missing all the places I visited in Italy — from the mountains of Abruzzo … to the beaches of Anzio… From Rome’s well-known tourist sites… to some hidden gems shown to me by a curator friend at the
How I came to stop preparing for emergencies and started living the Pantry Lifestyle… Have you wondered why I use the expressions Deepening the Pantry and Living a Pantry Lifestyle? Well, it came out of the years in the 1990s I wrote for an emergency preparedness website and was among
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