Celebrating life’s milestones with family and friends is one of my greatest pleasures. Last Thursday, I was thrilled to host a dinner party for my remarkable mother’s 90th birthday. Ida Menage Olah (known as Eda to her Cleveland family and friends) doesn’t like to be the center of ...
Italian
Spiderbite Pasta
One of my favorite Easy Weeknight Meals is Marcella Hazan's Bell Pepper and Goat Cheese Sauce for Pasta from her wonderful book Marcella Cucina. In fact, I've made this dish so many times that my hard cover book has cracked in that very spot. I've tried many variations over the 18 years that I've ...
My Favorite Polenta and Sausage Dish
As I was preparing for my Herb Gardening Made Easy class tomorrow at the main branch of the York County Library in Rock Hill, I was looking for my recipes that use rosemary - and found this post - still sitting in "draft" on my website - waiting to be published. Sometimes, I just have too much ...
Brussels Meets Italy
Brussels Sprouts are among the most polarizing of veggies - people either love 'em or hate 'em. I'm a self-confessed Brussels Sprouts lover, but have often resorted to cheese and dairy enhancements to get my carnivores to enjoy them. This week, I stumbled on an interesting idea by Kay Chun in ...
Homemade Meatballs in Honor of National Meatball Day
So according to three emails I received today, March 10th is National Meatball Day. (Who besides me was clueless?) So I decided to remake my meatballs from Fool a Carnivore. Please don't get me wrong - the Quorn Meatless and Soy-Free Meatballs and the new version by Gardein are both very good. ...