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Vegetables on the Side-No Butter Please
Are veggie haters born, or made? The answer seems to be both. Some of us have negative veggie experiences from our childhood that come back to haunt us as adults. Maybe you were forced to eat...
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What Can I Do With Fontina Cheese?
Fontina is considered to be one of the world’s best cheeses. Its nutty, creamy flavor is appreciated everywhere. Fontina Italian cheese is a table cheese as well as an excellent cheese for cooking. It...
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Cooking With Salt
Salt has played a key role in most cultures and, economically, it’s been important throughout the ages. Salt has been referenced and utilized in nearly all time periods and cultures from before...
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Pasta with Winter Greens
Seasonal eating is easy in summer when produce at the local farmers’ markets and supermarkets is abundant. But in winter, across wide areas of the world, the options tend to dwindle after the fall...
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Vegetarian Main Dish Entrees
Almost every Italian city and town has its specialties and there are regional specialties also; the end result is a huge number of local cuisines rather than a single national cuisine. However, there...
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Healthy Sides For Your Corned Beef
Did you know that corned beef and cabbage is a traditional American dinner on St. Patrick’s Day and not an Irish one? Beef was not readily available in Ireland and was considered a luxury. Irish folks...
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Fall Pizza
If the chill in the air has you wanting to make some heartier pizzas, look no further for inspiration than the fall farmers’ market. Apples, butternut squash, sage, kale, mushrooms, cauliflower,...
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Cooking with Italian Greens
A Forest of Greens by Carl Warner For decades, Italian country cooks have simmered greens and buttery white beans together. When we eat greens—such as escarole, Tuscan cabbage, spinach and chard—we are...
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Cold Weather Dinners
BEGINNING OF WINTER — By Leonid Afremov The best winter recipes will warm you up inside and out, will warm your home and make your house smell fantastic. Soups, stews, casseroles and chili are very...
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It’s Time For Soup
Soup is a great way to make the most of seasonal produce. Vary your choices throughout the year and stock up on what’s in season. Not only will it taste delicious, it will work out a lot cheaper than...
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Warming Winter Salads
This is not the season for cold potato salad or any other cold salad when you are trying to warm up. Then again, forget any memory of overcooked, withered spinach salads adorned with hard-boiled eggs...
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Cooking with Winter Citrus Fruits
Citrus fruit (grapefruit, lemons, limes and oranges) are at their best in the winter and can add a burst of flavor to your recipes. These fruits are a rich source of vitamin C, which helps protect you...
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Quick Fix Dinners For Busy Nights
The lazy days of summer have disappeared. Those days have gone by so quickly and here we are back into the busy after school activities routine! Soccer, tee ball, baseball, dance, gymnastics,...
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Healthy Winter Weeknight Side Dishes
Make Vegetables Taste Good 1. Use seasoning Salt and pepper vegetables as they cook. Add herbs. 2. Use olive oil Fat carries flavor and provides fat soluble vitamins which tend to be lacking in...
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Healthy Casseroles For Winter Nights
Kate Hackett Ceramics There are many motivations for sticking with a healthy diet. Eating more of the good stuff (and less of the junk) can help you prevent cancer, extend your lifespan, protect your...
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Healthy Italian Comfort Food
This time of year the weather can be quite unpredictable. A few days of nice, warm, sunny weather and them the cold comes roaring back. Those are the days when you want some warming comfort food...
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Italian Cooking with Seasonal Foods – Cabbage and Italian Kale
Below is a dinner we had last week that makes use of “in season” produce: cabbage and Italian kale. It also demonstrates my frugal habits. Italian Stuffed Cabbage This dish goes well with mashed...
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Family Dinner Time
Fall is here and comfort foods are perfect for dinner. This meal is high on the list of favorites in my family. Years ago, I got the idea of combining potatoes with greens for more nutrition and who...
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What To Cook In October
Tuscan Kale Spinach Rapini Greens The fall is the best time to buy greens from a grocery market or farmers’ market. Some leafy greens cook very quickly. Spinach is the best example. But others, like...
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Using Up The Leftovers
Over the past week and a half, I cooked several meals that yielded plenty of leftovers. My plan was to create some new ways to use these leftovers and this post is the result of that planning. The...
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