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Kale arrived in our produce delivery. I’d never had Kale before. Looking at recipes, potatoes seemed to be Kale’s most popular accompaniment. I decided to make a soup. In the end the flavors/consistency turned out to be a cross between a minestrone and tortilla soup. The kale had a unique taste. The soup was a [...]
Filed under: RECIPES, Starters & Soups | Tagged: Bon Appétit, cooking, food, March 2008, Potato Soup with Kale and Chorizo | No Comments »
You all know I purchased Giada De Laurentiis’ new cookbook “Giada’s Kitchen” in order to attend the signing event. Well, the book is actually really nice. The pictures are beautiful and the recipes are inventive. The first recipe we decided to make was the “Butternut Squash and Vanilla Risotto” (we used acorn squash). Mike “the [...]
Filed under: Main Dish, RECIPES, Starters & Soups | Tagged: acorn squash, Butternut Squash and Vanilla Risotto, cooking, food, Giada De Laurentiis, giada's kitchen | 3 Comments »
I’m not really a salad person. I will have one as a starter but never as a main course. The salads we eat at home are not usually worthy of a post. That is until now. This salad was the bomb! The dill dressing went perfectly with the spicy radish, sweet onions and tart apples. [...]
Filed under: RECIPES, Starters & Soups | Tagged: cooking, dill dressing, food, Rachael Ray, Radish Apple and Onion Salad | No Comments »
We received a Sugerpie pumpkin in our produce shipment from Farm Fresh to You. I really didn’t know what to do with it. My plan was to stick it by the front door and see if it would make it to Halloween but Mike had other ideas. He wanted to make soup and that’s exactly [...]
Filed under: RECIPES, Starters & Soups | Tagged: bon appetit magazine, cooking, food, halloween, pumpkin soup | 1 Comment »
Pete, the winner of Rachael Ray’s Hey, Can you cook?! competition returned to the show to prepare a meal. His dish looked really good so we made it. What do you think? The scallops were grand and the corn I could totally see eating at our next Thanksgiving dinner. They were super buttery and had [...]
Filed under: Main Dish, RECIPES, Side Dish, Starters & Soups | Tagged: cooking, food, Rachael Ray show, Seared Scallops with Roasted Corn and Herbs | No Comments »
I was in the mood for mussels. I order them at restaurants all the time but have never made them at home. I didn’t think it would be so easy. Once you take the time to clean them the actual prep/cook time is minimal. Mike and I picked up 2 lbs of farm raised black [...]
Filed under: Main Dish, RECIPES, Starters & Soups | Tagged: cooking, food, food & wine magazine october 2008, mussels, New Zealand green lipped mussels, Sauvignon Blanc–Steamed Mussels, wine | No Comments »
Tis the season to be eating tomatoes! I was watching the Tomato episode of Jamie Oliver’s show Jamie at Home and decided to make a tomato feast. Mike and I went to the farmers market and got a bevy of heirlooms. They look soooo good this time of year.
We followed Jamie’s instructions for making the [...]
Filed under: Main Dish, RECIPES, Starters & Soups | Tagged: caprese salad, cooking, food, jamie oliver, pasta salad, tomatoes | 6 Comments »
A couple times a year we have a wine & food night with friends. The evening consists of decadent food and many bottles of fantastic wine. This time Mike and I were assigned the salad course.
I attempted to make the Caprese Salad Mike and I ate at Enoteca San Marco last month. I had found [...]
Filed under: RECIPES, Starters & Soups | Tagged: caprese salad, enoteca san marco, food, mario batali, mozzarella, pesto, recipe, salad, tomatoes, wine | No Comments »
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