Today's recipe for grana padano cheese crisps with fava bean hummus and prosciutto roses are a mouthful -- literally and figuratively. I made these little crisps one afternoon when I was looking for a fancy snack to serve before dinner. Also, we needed to use up a gigantic crop of broad beans (also ...
Earlier this month the hubby and I resolved to do another Whole30. Basically, Whole30 is a 30-day elimination diet where you eat only meats, vegetables and fruit. That means eliminating grains, dairy, alcohol (sob), refined sugar and legumes (including soy) from your diet. It is so, so hard. The ...
Today's recipe comes to you by way of food interpreter Eleanora Galasso, who was the special guest host at a dinner I recently attended. The dinner featured dishes made with Parmigiano Reggiano PDO. One of the dishes were these incredible Italian stuffed eggplant rolls filled with Parmigiano ...
I'm a little eggplant-obsessed. The hubby and I keep talking about eating healthier by eating more veggies and less meat, and one of these days, we'll try out a plant-based diet (really, we will). In the meantime, I'm trying to find veggies that leave my voracious appetite satisfied and not feeling ...
Following up on yesterday's post about English bangers and mash, today I'm sharing a recipe for this really delicious celery, apple and mint slaw. It's a tart, crunchy accompaniment that lightens up an otherwise very "stodgy" meal, as the Brits would say (stodgy being super heavy and weighty). ...
I love putting together a good cheese board. Like a flower arrangement or assembling a scrapbook of Joshua Jackson's best poses, there's an art to it. I put together a cheese board any time a party I'm hosting exceeds ten people, because they're a perfect way to give guests an opportunity to graze ...
During my brief stint in culinary school, one of the many recipes we made was smoked mackerel pate. The school provided us with entire smoked mackerels so that we could practice filleting round fish -- when smoked, the round fish fillets much easier than it would if it were raw, giving us a chance ...
Every fall, I look forward to pumpkin season. I love taking my kids to pumpkin patches, bumping along dirt roads on hay-filled tractor rides and making pumpkin desserts. Now that we live in London, fall looks and feels different. When I lived in London 15 years ago, fresh pumpkins were a real ...
