Do you ever want to bring home the flavors of your favorite summer vacation meals? Those special ones that seemingly could not taste better? This is exactly how I feel following an incomparable two weeks on Menorca visiting with my dear friend-since-college, Joan. If…
I recently had the good fortune to meet several “Wine Country Women” who are featured the book “Wine Country Women of Napa Valley at an event at the Kitchen Collective in Napa. Our group was small-ish, so the affair allowed for much tasting, cooking and…
These made-from-scratch pancakes take only a few minutes of preparation and take full advantage of the height of berry season. They are a perfect solution to satisfying a sweet tooth without heating up the kitchen with a full out baking project. I had originally…
In the span of a recent week I had been out for dinner several times and, upon slight reflection, I realize I ordered meatballs every time. Three meals, three orders of meatballs! The selections were of a Mediterranean bent, Italian, Greek, etc. and all equally…
A VEGAN recipe? Well yes, but I haven’t done a 180-degree turnabout from my preferred eating habits. I recently created this egg and dairy-free recipe for a hostess gift to a dear friend who is seriously allergic to both. I brought them to a…
We are finally getting our winter storms here – as I write in the first week of March it’s finally raining. Much needed raining! But previous bouts of warmer weather have brought some spring produce to market earlier than usual, and just in time to…
My publisher made a request for an orange loaf cake – he has a fond food memory of a cake his mother baked; redolent with orange in every bite, including on top of the cake. So off to my collection of classic cookbooks I went,…
Sometimes that one-pound package of ground beef is begging for an inspired use. It just sits there, daring me to come up with something slightly out of the norm to give it a sense of higher value. I worked this up for a quick,…
Is it just me, or did September fly by? I must have been ecstatic last month, (“Time flies when you’re having fun…”). So it’s with a bit of a rush that I prepare this month’s Piedmont Pantry column for The Piedmont Post, because I blinked…
There is a slight Goldilocks’ attitude to my preference for a summer time cake featuring fruit. Not too dense and not to light, but a medium textured, moist cake that seems just right for a satisfying sweet treat during our late summer heat. If…