Lemon Posset
It’s almost impossible to believe that lemon posset, a silky soft dessert, shares a name with a medieval cure-all of hot curdled milk and ale. Prescribed as a cold remedy throughout the 14th and 15th centuries, the original posset was more medicine cabinet than dessert bowl. Thank the ingenuity of 19th-century British chefs for rescuing…
Chanterelles and Turnips with Garlic Butter and Creamy Polenta
I love how social media allows me to connect with people back home – some I’ve met and some only through the electronic foodie world. Home for me means the Maritimes and although I’m originally from New Brunswick, Nova Scotia is where we plan to lay roots. Quite by accident, I stumbled across this…
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…
Summer 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,…
Corn, 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…
Scallop 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…
Grilled 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…
The 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…
Fig, 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…
Panzanella 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…
Stuffed 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,…
Vacation 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…
Raspberry Picante Paloma Pitchers
It’s been a scorcher these past few days and hopefully we’re at the end of a heat wave…I feel like I’m back in Asia! John and I love a simple drink and tequila, however, was never one of them until now. I first made this raspberry paloma pitcher last Sunday…it did not last long! The…