A couple years ago, my mom got us some exotic jams and marmalades from Swaziland for Christmas. Somehow she placed a double order for the price of one, so we’ve been going through them pretty slowly. Inspiration struck, […]
Inspired by The Cage Free Tomato and Sarah’s idea of blogging on our cultural heritage, I home cured some salmon. My dad’s side of the family is Jewish, and most breakfasts when we visited family in […]
Sarah from Top Chef recently won one episode with her sausage stuffed cabbage. It looked really good to me, so I decided to make it. Sarah (from this blog, not Top Chef) typically dislikes stuffed cabbage, which is usually filled with […]
I was listening to NPR lately and heard Steve Inskeep interviewing Nigella Lawson about holiday recipes (which can be found here). She discussed pumpkin goat cheese lasagna as a good, inexpensive main dish. I had a City Fresh pumpkin around (and […]
With the holiday season fast approaching, I tend to recall family traditions from holidays past. In this spirit, I am going to share with you a family recipe that my mom learned from her mom. My mom was born in […]
Typically late November isn’t considered a great time to eat local produce. We’ve really been enjoying the vegetables, though. For Thanksgiving we brought Rachel Ray’s Brussels Sprouts with Bacon with the addition of walnuts. These were the best […]
Inspired by the Cage Free Tomato’s post, I finally decided to make homemade hot dogs using the recipe from Charcuterie. These took a fair amount of time with a number of steps including grinding, a 24 hour (or so) chill, […]