There’s been an awful lot going on here the last few weeks: travel to LA for my father’s birthday, harvesting the last of the tender crops from our garden, drying herbs, pregnancy-watching one of our sows, curing and smoking bacon (interconnected, yes. Apologies to those of you who don’t love the connection). While we were… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Holidays & Entertaining
Vegetarian Stuffed Mushrooms with Roasted Cauliflower and Chives
Come Big Game time, there are plenty of meaty treats available: chicken wings, burgers and their diminutive slider cousins, hotdogs, meatballs and sausage, pulled pork, barbecue spare ribs, beef stew, nachos, chili. Sure, nachos and chili can be made vegetarian, but how often does that happen for Super Bowl? Not often, at least not in… Continue Reading
Orange-Maple Chicken Drumsticks with Orange-Gorgonzola Dipping Sauce
Football is a great excuse for all-day snacking, which JR and I definitely partake of once the weather changes from lovely, golden autumn warmth to the why-do-we-live-here-again cold. It must be the glorious autumn, gorgeous spring, and stunning summer that keeps us here, because it certainly can’t be the frigid winter that does. No matter,… Continue Reading
the gift of cookbooks
Is anyone else in a last-minute gift-getting panic? Or is it just me? Every year, I say that I’m going to get a jump on the gift buying – you know, before Thanksgiving – and each year, the only gifts I manage to get done in advance are the jams, jellies, and dried herbs that… Continue Reading
Feast of the Seven Fishes: Clams Casino
Our Christmas Eve celebrations were always of a red sauce sort. Not surprising, given that my Nana owned an Italian-American restaurant – not a Calabrian restaurant, not a Tuscan restaurant, not a Piemontese restaurant – a restaurant specializing in all things breaded, stuffed, and red sauced. Chicken Parmigiana is still my go-to comfort food. If… Continue Reading