Maple-Banana Muffins and The Ingredients of You and Me for TLC

Nina Bocci’s latest novel includes some heirloom recipes for Cucidati (Italian Fig Cookies), Apfelkuchen (German Apple Cake), Hummingbird Cake, Italian Wedding Cookies (anise cookies), and Ciambelone (Italian tea cakes). Please join me for my TLC review. . . . → Read More: Maple-Banana Muffins and The Ingredients of You and Me for TLC

Live-Longer Granola

I recently reviewed The Blue Zones Kitchen and have really been using this cookbook since. It’s been hard lately cooking from a cookbook because I am not running to the store for needed ingredients. If we don’t have it, we make something else (or totally revamp the original recipe).

Having recently eaten the last of . . . → Read More: Live-Longer Granola

May 2020 “In My Kitchen”

I do so hope that this “In My Kitchen” for May 2020 is finding you all safe and well! Social distancing has been going on in the home office since March 16. (That’s also forty-seven days of no make-up which I am not complaining about.)

As our state starts to open things back up, I . . . → Read More: May 2020 “In My Kitchen”

Midnight in Paris: Food ‘n Flix Announcement

Welcome to May’s Food ‘n Flix round and one of my favorite movies: Midnight in Paris. I am not a huge Woody Allen fan, but I do love this film. You might find more famous dead people in this film than food, but I know you will be able to find some foodie inspiration. . . . → Read More: Midnight in Paris: Food ‘n Flix Announcement

French Bread (and an essential outing)

After a successful hunt for bread flour, I found this recipe in an old cookbook passed on to me by my grandmother. Here’s a comforting (and easy) recipe (and another Cookbook of the Week post). . . . → Read More: French Bread (and an essential outing)

Food ‘n Flix, The Biggest Little Farm, and a Chickpea Salad

The Biggest Little Farm features a 200 acre money pit that Molly and John turn into a flourishing, biodynamic Eden. Join me for a review of this 2018 documentary as well as one of Molly’s recipes. . . . → Read More: Food ‘n Flix, The Biggest Little Farm, and a Chickpea Salad

Blackberry Cobbler in a Skillet

Here’s a very versatile and easy cobbler recipe that works with most any fruit. It’s my latest Cookbook of the Week installment. . . . → Read More: Blackberry Cobbler in a Skillet

Grapefruit Breakfast Cake (and more)

While we clean out the freezer and pantry during our “safer at home” existence, I am coming up with some new recipes. . . . → Read More: Grapefruit Breakfast Cake (and more)

Flatbread Pizza with Grilled Chicken and Peanuts

Here’s a recipe I made in early March and another Cookbook of the Week feature. Hope you enjoy! . . . → Read More: Flatbread Pizza with Grilled Chicken and Peanuts

April 2020 “In My Kitchen”

Still distancing…and baking donuts and drinking tea and eating all meals in. Check out what’s new in the kitchen this month. . . . → Read More: April 2020 “In My Kitchen”