If you’ve never tried chimichurri before, you must stop and make it now! Sorry to be bossy, but it packs mucho flavor and livens up whatever it’s drizzled over. Try it on roasted vegetables, grilled meat or fish, scrambled eggs, even over noodles for a cold pasta salad. But if I had to chose, it’s at its best when paired with a nice steak.…
With the majority of my posts I attempt to tie the recipe in with a holiday, significant event, the seasons, a poignant moment, etc.. I try to tell a nice little story while weaving in the recipe. No real story here. Just scrumptious cupcakes. And maybe that is the story. I’ve been making these plain vanilla cupcakes with buttercream frosting for years and they are…
Yes, I’m now officially part of the blogging community. I’m slowly learning about the subculture of bloggers which involves lots of commenting on and linking to others’ articles as well as nominating each other for awards. Slightly cheesy, yet quite sweet and part of building community and learning about what other people are up to. So I graciously accept my first blogging award,…
Spring is in the air and fresh asparagus is once again in the markets. Yes, it’s available year-round, but nothing beats freshly picked. Buy it from your local farmer’s market, if possible, as asparagus contains sugars that turn to starch once it leaves the ground. The sooner you eat it (and how could you allow a beautiful bunch of asparagus to sit around?),…
Some recipes I hesitate posting because they are embarrassingly easy. Hard to even call it a recipe; rather just a quick assembling of a few ingredients. This recipe falls into that category. The inspiration came from an article sent to me by my Mom. No, not shared via Facebook (she’s not on Facebook). No, not linked via email. Old school,…
Happy Cinco de Mayo!! “Cinco de what??” That’s the reaction from friends here in the UK when I mentioned that I was working on a post for Cinco de Mayo. It’s not exactly a UK holiday; nor much of a Mexican holiday for that matter. Widely celebrated in the US, and parts of Mexico, it’s a national pride day for Mexican…
Three years ago I was living back in the States (Boston) and working a 3-month internship at America’s Test Kitchen, home of Cook’s Illustrated magazines and cookbooks. As part of “graduation” from the internship program, we did a “muffin project” (I promise there will be no more ” ” in this article….) which involved developing a unique muffin recipe and…
Can’t believe it’s been a month since my last post! No, I’m not switching to once-monthly (rather I promise to get back to twice-weekly), just been a busy month of traveling. But I’m back in the kitchen and one of the first home-cooked dinners I’ve made is this healthy, bright, flavorful curry. Despite all the best intentions of eating healthy…
“I love that I’m the girl that shares recipes now!” That’s the subject of an email I received back in November 2008 from my dear friend Maureen. Maureen and I go way back. Prior to this the only recipe I’d probably ever received and/or discussed with her was for mojitos that she learned to make in Cuba. But back in 2008 Maureen…
My refrigerator’s veg bin seems to have an ever-present head of cabbage tucked in its back corner. Cabbage isn’t something that I’ve typically been inspired by. It’s not exactly the sexiest of veg. No one raves about that “amazing cabbage dish” they just had. People don’t scour farmer’s markets looking for that just-picked head of cabbage. Coleslaw is always an option, but…