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Red Sauce for Pasta
This recipe is meant as a template. Please alter, add, remove, adapt as you see fit based on your own tastes and ingredients at hand. The ingredients, quantities, and methods are also loose suggestions. (You may substitute homemade sauce in lieu of canned.) Be as spontaneous as possible!
Serves
2 [...]
No, not Honest Cooking, the new food news website I’m writing for but as in do I suck as a cook? I think so all the time! I really shouldn’t because I have both professional training and experience in restaurant kitchens. I’ve also been cooking since I was in my late teens (37 years). As [...]
My great-grandmother, Ora Goodman, and her garden, were the impetus for me to start writing this blog. She was a major influence all through my childhood. She lived a ‘local’ life without realizing she was doing so. She simply lived her life. This [...]
Sun-Warmed Beefsteak Tomatoes
The key to this dish is that the rest of the meal must already be on the table before it is prepared.
Ingredients
Fresh, ripe, garden Beefsteak tomatoes, or farmers market, organic tomatoes
Olive oil
Fresh ground pepper & salt
Method
The tomatoes should be warm and fragrant from the sun, just picked if possible. As everyone begins [...]
Small-Batch Baking for Chocolate Lovers: Recipes for Cookies, Cakes, Pie, Tarts, Muffins and Scones. Debby Maugans. Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press. $21.99. (340p) ISBN: 978-0-312-61224-5
The best things come in small packages. In the case of “Small-Batch Baking for Chocolate Lovers,” the best chocolate things come in small packages. Author Debby Maugans perfected the art of [...]