My husband’s birthday was just a few days ago, and now it’s my baby Kara’s turn! As you can see, she’s not a baby anymore. Kara has grown up to be a beautiful woman, inside and out. We are more proud of her than I can say. Graduation from NYU Kara in Panama, where she […]
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Saturday Recipe: Fresh pasta with fresh sage
Fresh pasta is so heavenly. Add fresh sage and it’s even better! If you are a fan of both, you will love this pasta. You will need a pasta machine with a fettucine or linguine cutter. Buon Appetito! Fresh Sage Fettucine 2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour2 Tablespoons minced fresh sage2 large eggs beaten with 1/3 cup water2 […]
Passionate Cooking Inspired by Farms, Forests, and Oceans
The Sustainable Kitchen is all about contemporary cuisine made with the best ingredients grown locally. Sustainable cooking is talked about and discussed with almost every food article you read lately. Today, all across our country, more and more chefs and home cooks alike are in search of fresh, seasonal food. If you haven’t yet explored the […]
An Abundance of Summer Peppers for Southwest Cooking
Peppers of all kinds are popping up like crazy in my garden. I always like to do more than just saute them for fajitas or put them in kabobs. This is the cookbook I always turn to for ideas. Published in 1983, this cookbook from Texan Anne Lindsay Greer offers more than 300 recipes from […]
Lake House in Australia
With many people enjoying our country’s lakes this summer, I thought we would go to a lake house, actually a lake house restaurant in Australia, where my daughters, Kristina and Kara, enjoyed an amazing meal down-under. This beautiful coffee table book is so big, it didn’t quite fit in my scanner. That’s because it’s filled with […]
Cobblers- Not just for Colonial America!
The All-American cobbler is one of our country’s oldest and ultimate comfort foods. It has come a long way from its humble beginnings as an early Colonial-American breakfast dish. Some culinary experts claim a shoe-cobbler’s wife created the dish, while others suggest it is simply named after the cobblestone streets of the time because of […]
Happy Birthday to My Bill! And a Cookbook From Michigan
This is actually where my husband Bill (on the left) would rather be at the moment – fishing with his cousin Benny on the Little Garlic River in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, catching some steelhead. The Upper Peninsula (UP) of Michigan is where many Finns settled after immigrating to America, including Bill’s grandparents, which is why […]
Cookbook Give-Away for the week of 7-5-10
No one wants to heat up an oven for dinner in the summer, so here is a cookbook for easy, summer meals. “Wraps,” from 1997 is fun cookbook filled with such intriguing names as Huevos Wrapcheros, Moroccan Missle, Porkie and Bess, Tofu Twister, or This Lox Rocks. How can you not want to taste these?! If you […]
