This citrus and olive salad is a sweet and tangy, colorful, full flavored and incredibly simple recipe to brighten up a winter’s day. Beautiful crimson blood oranges (though naval or cara cara will certainly do) are balanced beautifully by marinated red onions, oil-cured black olives, and a robust extra virgin…
“Chocolate, the ‘food of the gods,’ conquered not just the candy shop, but also the kitchen.” – Riccardo Magni Don’t make the mistake of thinking this rigatoni with dark cocoa and red wine short ribs is a chocolate-y or sweet pasta dish, it’s absolutely not. Not even close. Savory and…
I love the calm that January brings. Winter’s rest is palpable in this little town. Most of our local farm markets have officially closed for the season with their fields resting under blankets of ice and snow. So let’s turn up the heat a bit with this Crock-Pot Pulled Pork…
A classic Polish gingerbread cake recipe, Piernik Staropolski. My daughter’s 5th grade class was tasked with a “Christmas Around the World” project in Social Studies and of the three countries she chose to research, she was granted Poland. Seeing as though my children share in their father’s half-Polish ancestry, we…
“Here we come a-wassailing Among the leaves so green; Here we come a-wand’ring So fair to be seen.” For most of us ‘wassail’ is a word we know from a popular Christmas carol though there’s a good chance that most of us cannot explain what it is – and with…