Serves 2-4, depending on your eaters. If this is a main course, make 8 cakes, 2 cakes per person. If this is an appetizer portion you could get up to 18 smaller lamb morsels. I made these lamb cakes tonight. I had a pound of ground lamb … [Read more...]
Peaches, Beaches
Peaches are my favorite, if infrequently enjoyed, fruit. My problem with peaches is that they are only good (as in ripe, juicy and tasting like a real peach) for two weeks a year. While I was doing my internship in France, I stayed with a French … [Read more...]
Some Book Recommendations for You
Recently I have been asked for some cookbook recommendations, which just happens to be one of my favorite subjects. I love cookbooks. Cookbooks saved my life when I was a kid. Food magazine made so much more sense than the bible, or those silly … [Read more...]
To Be Or Not To Be Gluten Free……..
The Gritty Truth of the Gluten Free Diet A disenchanted mother finds hope This might be a typical story but it doesn't feel typical because it's mine. We are in a psychologist’s office. A sculpture of Freud sits on … [Read more...]
Gluten Free Lemon Tart…..
It appears as though my eldest has a problem with gluten. It’s a long story how we came to discover this, but I will say the journey has been fraught with more than little resistance on my part. I have a culinary degree, after all. Over … [Read more...]
Billy Collin’s Osso Buco
Osso Buco by Billy Collins I love the sound of the bone against the plate and the fortress-like look of it lying before me in a moat of risotto, the meat soft as the leg of an angel who has lived a purely airborne … [Read more...]