Posts by The Culinary Chase
Heirloom Cherry Tomatoes Stuffed with Tapenade and Feta
Local farm-fresh produce is on the grocery shelves and I love it! With Fall on our doorstep, this has to be my favorite time of year. I was in the city yesterday and just had to stop by Union Square Greenmarket (Flatiron District) to get my fill of local. This place is always busy no…
Read MoreSummer Squash Tart
John has been traveling a lot lately and when he comes home he wants light meals. Hotel food and eating out with customers leave him hankering for home-cooked food. After a few days in Dallas he definitely didn’t want any meat! This tart was the perfect welcome back meal. Summer squash refers to pattypan squash,…
Read MoreCorn, Avocado and String Bean Salad with Feta
What inspires you to cook? Is it a photo from a food magazine, cookbook or simply food that’s in your refrigerator? For me, it’s a combination and the other night it was the contents in my fridge that dictated what I would make for dinner. I had a couple of heirloom tomatoes left from Lieb’s…
Read MoreScallop and Pesto Purses – A Tribute to Julia Child
I was in Barnes and Noble bookstore last week and in the cooking section (yes, I know – shock!) when I was about to leave I spied an end unit displaying Julia Child’s cookbook: Baking With Julia: Savor The Joys of Baking with America’s Best Bakers. I paused to take note and began casually flipping…
Read MoreGrilled Maitake Mushrooms
Last Sunday after church John and I strolled around the Upper West Side of Broadway to explore the area. We were searching for a place to eat lunch when I spotted the Columbia Greenmarket. The Greenmarkets of NYC are the creation of GrowNYC which began in 1970 (born on the first earth day). Their markets…
Read MoreThe Best Homemade Lemon Ice Cream!
This recipe (adapted from Gourmet) forms part of another – Frozen Lemon Gingersnap Pie – which I will share with you in another post. There’s something so quintessentially summer whenever lemons are mentioned in a recipe, making any day of the year sunny. Flavored shaved ice (precursor to ice cream) has been used for thousands…
Read MoreFig, Gorgonzola and Prosciutto Salad
Originally posted in 2007 this recipe has come to light again because Kitchen Daily (Huffington Post) liked my photo for their fig roundup. I received an email from Joe, the associate editor of Kitchen Daily wanting to know if it was ok to include my photo in their feature about figs. As you can imagine…
Read MorePanzanella Salad – too hot for cooking!
It’s been so hot out lately and with my husband away dinner needed to be simple and quick. Originally I thought I would make a pasta primavera using the fresh veggies I bought from Lieb’s organic patch but I eyed the leftover focaccia bread on the counter and changed my mind. I would make a…
Read MoreStuffed Zucchini Flowers (Fiori di Zucca Ripieni)
Ciao, pronto, prego, il conto, mi scusi, buon giorno, arrivederci, grazie – some useful words we used when we visited Italy earlier this month – it seems a distant memory now! Don’t ask me to string a sentence together but I can get by with simple words and hand gesticulations. John, on the other hand,…
Read MoreVacation Time!
We are so looking forward to being on vacation. This year has had its challenges for us especially on the job front but that was recently sorted – phew! My husband light heartedly jokes about being employed in the US in that he’s been sitting at the same desk for a year and the company…
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