Holiday Cocktails
’tis the season to warm up from the inside out, with a cocktail.
Recent Posts
Slow Cooker Thanksgiving Side Dishes
Last week we brought you a classic Onion Velouté as a simple start to dining for the holiday season. Since the turkey alone takes up almost the entire oven, with perhaps a little space left over for a sweet potato bake, we’re making the most of …read more
White Onion Velouté with Pancetta
While our graphic artist Linda Cassady brings our Holiday Gift Collection to life from her studio, we put our creative palates to work on a series of recipes exclusively for her.
Metta
Definition: Metta is a sincere wish for the welfare and genuine happiness of all beings, without exception. Metta – may you be free from danger, happy, peaceful, strong, healthy, and have ease of being.
Eggplant Parmesan
In Claudia Roden’s The Good Food Of Italy: region by region, the eggplant is heralded as “the most important vegetable” in Calabria, the region of Italy known as the toe.
Texas Brisket “Slow Cooked Chili”
“Can one imagine Mediterranean food without tomatoes?” Jane Grigson asks in her Vegetable book, 1978. Add to that chilis and I declare two of the most used ingredients in my kitchen.
Wisconsin Beer Cheese Soup
No trip to Wisconsin from Chicago is complete without a rest stop at the Mars Cheese Castle to stock up on New Glarus beer and cheese curds, and a detour on the way home to pick apples and drink cider. The inspiration behind our Wisconsin …read more
The Dorito Effect
“Have you ever wondered why those perfectly red tomatoes from the supermarket taste like tap water? And did a simple roast chicken always require half a pound of seasoning? It’s no illusion. The flavor of the food we eat is changing, and has been for more than half …read more
Slow Cooker Poached Italian Eggs
In wrapping up our month of breakfast recipes we turn to comfort food this week. A hot breakfast with eggs evokes a real sense of well being in our house, possibly because it means that we all have time to actually sit and commune.
Bacon & Cheese Breakfast Quick Bread
The smell of sizzling bacon wafting up the stairs is enough to get any member of my family leaping from their beds in the morning without hesitation. The salty, savory slices don’t last long and I usually end up short changed with just the scraps to …read more
Oatmeal Breakfast Bar
The inspiration to focus on breakfast this month is twofold. The idea, brought to life by The Secrets of Happy Families book in Meg’s post last week, that family connections can be nurtured over the breakfast table.
Zen Breakfast
There has been a lot written over recent years about the research showing the importance of the “family dinner.”
