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Easy-Fancy Potatoes

Hasselback Potatoes are the perfect blend of  “easy but looks fancy!” What are they? Basically they are baked potatoes that have been sliced in a decorative manner. They were a Swedish invention at the...

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Plain & Fancy

Can you guess who ate what? Your choices are: Boston Irish-american guy: plain or fancy? New Hampshire raised country girl: plain or fancy? Boston Irish guy = plain & New Hampshire country girl =...

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A Tale Of Two Patty Pans

  …and a tomato and some garlic. This is not the first time I have written about Patty Pans and in fact I seem to have a habit of buying them in pairs. I guess 1 just doesn’t seem like enough and more...

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Now THAT’s Ricotta!

I recently picked up some fresh ricotta at my local 50,000 sq. foot “Italian food emporium” in Boston and it changed me forever. I realized up until now, I had really never tasted ricotta – just poor...

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Middle-Aged Pasta

Nope I am not referencing my age – just acknowledging the fact that Lasagna noodles were invented by the Greeks but perfected into the dish we know and love by the Italians as early as the middle ages!...

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“Puffy” Quiche

What’s a girl to do when she wants to make a quiche and needs a crust? Get out the flour and mixer and make a homemade pie crust? I think not. Since I use store bought pie crust for my quiche, the...

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Scraps

Sometimes you just have to use up the scraps of things you have hanging around your cabinets and fridge. And that is the very essence of “cabinet stew.” Using what you have on hand to create a meal....

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Dinner In A Bag (again)

Pot Roast cooked in a plastic bag sounds crazy right? But that was the only kind of pot roast I knew as a child. Cooking in an oven bag was this 1970’s concept where you place your cut of meat,...

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Three Goddesses & Lunch (Repost from 2011)

Enjoy this post from 2011 – one of my favorite ways I have spent easter…. We spent Easter Sunday in the presence of Three Goddesses at the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. Ceres, Pomona & Flora...

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Mr. Irish… Meet Mexican Corn

When you have been married to someone for 15 years, you think you know that person fairly well. That is a bad assumption. There is something new to learn at any given moment. Like say when you are on a...

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Easy As 1-2-3

I have written about quiche many times. See here, here, here, here, here and here. I just can’t help myself, quiche is the perfect vehicle for just about anything you want to put into it. This week it...

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Encased Meat

When asked what my favorite cut of meat is I always answers “encased meat!” I love sausages, hot dogs, anything that comes in a casing. in fact here is a fun book on this very subject:...

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