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
Roasted Cauliflower with Hazelnuts and Gorgonzola
And orange. Let’s not forget the orange. So, really, it’s roasted cauliflower with hazelnuts, Gorgonzola, and orange. Because we need more orange in our diet at this time of year. I am starting to understand why oranges became a traditional stocking stuffer (never mind that whole St. Nicholas dropping gold into those poor girls’ socks… Continue Reading
Orange-Honey Shrimp with Broccoli
Holy smokes. Ever have one of those weeks where you’re pretty well convinced you’re going to come down with scurvy? Or, if not scurvy, some other vitamin deficiency that has befallen you because you’ve eaten nothing but starch for, oh, say, 28 straight meals? No? Well, that was me last week. Following the starchapalooza that… Continue Reading
Leftover Turkey and Wild Rice Soup
Oh, what a letdown the Sunday following Thanksgiving is. The best holiday of the year is over, with it, the fun of a long, leisurely weekend with family recedes into memory, and a return to work is only hours away. Boo. Hiss. To add to this year’s Thanksgiving-is-over melancholy, a cold rain has been falling… Continue Reading
Pear-Ginger Chutney
There is a cranberry bog down the street from our house – a number of cranberry bogs, in fact – and I do love watching the autumn progression of the bogs turning bright red, followed by a flurry of bog-flooding activity, the farmer and a gaggle of helpers working frantically to harvest them all as… Continue Reading