FENNEL – Venerable Panacea from The Spice Cookbook, 1964This aromatic herb, whose smell is very much like that anise, was believed by ancient scholars to be among the nine…
Forgive me for posting a winter dessert today. I was looking for quinces all winter, unable to find them; a couple of days ago finally I got lucky, and…
The Art of Pastry Making from best-ever Pastry cookbook “There’s a lot of truth in the old adage – as easy as pie. Making pastry isn’t difficult if you…
Usually, I don’t buy ready-to-use bread mix, I cook everything from scratch. But, the first time for everything. I got this bread mix from Bob’s Red Mill company and actually,…
There is nothing more delightful than a complete luncheon of hors-d’oeuvres, especially on a hot day in summer. The color and variety of the various dishes, particularly when accompanied…
A few days ago, I’ve got beautiful homegrown, range-free organic eggs as a present from our dear neighbors, and I decided to make an Egg Sandwich. I truly love…
Chilled Summer Soups/ Other Desserts/ Soups
Papaya-Lime Soup with Strawberries – simply prepared but satisfying end to any meal
Papaya is at its best uncooked, so it typically makes its way into recipes like fruit salad and sorbet. But this soup is a more elegant venue for the…
Different variations of bouillabaisse abound along the Mediterranean coast – every village seems to have its own version – and almost any combination of fish and shellfish can be…
Filled with chocolate chips, apricots, and toasted pistachios, these cookies are just right with a glass of cold milk. I have another version of Chocolate chip cookies, also very…
Breakfast/ Chilled Summer Soups/ Soups/ Vegetables
Sweet Potato Frittata with Tomato Salsa and Melon Soup with Ginger
This Sweet Potato Frittata recipe has very simple ingredients but makes something very unique. Melons are sweet, spicy, and musky, but with their high water content, they are best…
Saffron is the world’s most costly aromatic, for it takes the stigmas (pistil tips) of 75,000 Crocus sativus blossoms to make a single pound when dried. Saffron has been…
Flat bread is something between a crumbly cracker and a crisp biscuit. Once you have mastered the technique, experiment with ingredients to make both sweet and savory snacks. You…
Sweet potatoes and yams: True sweet potatoes are tuberous vegetables with light to deep-red skins and pale yellow to orange flesh. The term yam is also incorrectly applied to…
Leonie de Sounin says of the carrot in her delightful book Magic in Herbs: “So delicate is this vegetable that it is predestined by nature just to be taken…
This amazing event was produced by Food Blog Forum with Jaden Hair of Steamy Kitchen, Todd & Diane of White On Rice Couple, Julie Deily of The Little Kitchen,…