Peppers are in abundance at my Farmers Market - and there are so many colorful new varieties that I want to try them all! The ones pictured above are Sugar Rush Peach Peppers from my friends at Crouching Hippo - and even a few of them lent quite a bite to my Chilaquiles last week! (The ...
Weekend Recipes
Taking the Meat out of Meatloaf
Has Beyond Beef finally created the perfect plant-based ground beef? This was my first time using Beyond Beef, but I already think it is clearly superior to the LightLife Gimme Lean Beef product that I used in my Mini Meat Loaves recipe in Fool a Carnivore: Meaty Main Dishes . . . Minus the ...
Summer Pasta (in Memory of Ida)
Those of you who are friends and family know that my 93-year old mother, Ida Olah, died six weeks ago. My posts have been sporadic (at best) the past six months, since my mom was extremely ill and under Hospice care in her home. Since I did all the cooking for my mom during the last dozen years ...
Baked Ziti Lasagna
Have you ever started out to make a dish you were craving . . . only to discover that one of your ingredients was bad? That’s what happened to me this past weekend. I had a hankering for Eggplant Parmesan – but the eggplant I had purchased a week ago was unfortunately past its prime. The ...
Hungarian Stuffed Cabbage Rolls
With the winter storm battering the Carolinas yesterday, I decided to stay indoors and make old-fashioned comfort food. Since I make a lot more Italian food than Hungarian, I decided to honor my Hungarian heritage and make a vegan version of a childhood favorite - Stuffed Cabbage. I bought a ...
British Cottage Pie
It seems like every week there is another alert about food products that have been tainted with Salmonella. The latest beef recall brings the total up to about 12 million pounds, with several hundred people in 25 states being affected. And right before Thanksgiving, I was stunned to read that ...
Michigan Pasties
I just returned from attending my 40threunion at The University of Michigan Law School. Being back in the lovely city of Ann Arbor was absolutely magical. Not only did we have a picture perfect day for the Wolverines win over Nebraska, I had so much fun reconnecting with classmates with whom I’ve ...
End of summer classics: Stuffed Baby Eggplants and Peach Burrata Salad
The sun is finally peaking through the clouds here in my part of South Carolina - and that's a good thing after three relentless days of rain from Hurricane Florence. Many parts of the Carolinas are still under siege from power outages and rising flood waters, and I pray that the waters will recede ...
