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Recipe: Cajun Shrimp
I learned most of what I know about Cajun cooking from three great chefs: Justin Wilson (red suspenders), Paul Prudhomme (white beret), and Emeril Lagasse (“Bam!”). When it came to creating my own...
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Recipe: Curried Spinach with Raisins
You can look at this recipe two ways: as a quick and tasty side dish, or a mega-dose of nutritional goodness on a plate. To discover the “quick and tasty”, you will have to take my word for it; for...
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Recipe: Italian Wedding Soup, YSOL-style
Typically, Italian Wedding Soup is made up of chicken stock, tiny meatballs, even tinier pasta (pastina) and escarole. It’s fantastic, but like many traditional recipes, could use a little lightening...
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Spring Dinner Menu
Does the idea of throwing a large dinner party excite you, exhaust you or scare you? Maybe all three? I get it. It’s fun to be the host and gather your family and friends for a special meal, but there...
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Rural Intelligence, meet Your Spice of Life!
I had the honor of being interviewed in Rural Intelligence, by free-lance writer Nichole Dupont. RI covers food, art, style, travel, community and most other things that we cherish in life, so it was...
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Do you judge a book by its cover?
It’s an old adage — “don’t judge a book by its cover”. Taking this literally, unless you are a well-known author, the cover is often the only way that people will stop to look at your book. The same...
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Recipe: “Don’t be a turkey 4-bean chili”
It’s chili time! Yesterday, I took part in a chili cook-off at Catamount Ski here in Hillsdale. This incredibly busy ski resort repeated one of their most popular events, inviting over 20 local chefs...
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Recipe: Stuffed Manicotti with Spicy Turkey Sausage
It’s darn cold around here, these days, so I thought that a nice, hearty lasagna would be just the thing to warm me up. Any excuse to fire up the oven, you know? But lasagna can be a lot of work… so I...
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Recipe: Rockin’ Moroccan Chicken Stew with Couscous
This is my first “illustrated” recipe! The steps for making this Moroccan Chicken Stew are not complicated, but I thought it would be fun to show you the instructions along the way — you know, the...
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Recipe: Spicy Grilled Cod
You’ve heard that fish can be a valuable part of a healthy diet. It’s naturally low-fat, high in protein, and easy on the calories (depending on how you prepare it). The health benefits read like an...
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Recipe: Light & Easy Seafood Chowder
Goodness sake, it’s April 19th and it still doesn’t feel like Spring yet! I’m still in “warm and filling” mode, for my weekly soup creations. When I was deciding what to make this week, an old...
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Recipe: Bread, rolls, pizza, oh my!
I have learned how to bake bread… and I feel like I have just invented fire. Yeah, I am Wonder Woman. You have no idea how proud (and surprised) I am at this accomplishment! Why did I think that making...
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Recipe: Mexican Molé Soup with Beef & Rice
I own over 30 cookbooks, yet I admit that I seldom crack them open — except for this one: “What’s Cooking: SOUPS” by Carole Clements. “What’s Cooking: SOUPS” by Carole Clements It’s the variety of...
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Recipe: Fresh Mediterranean Pasta Salad
Pasta salad is a summertime staple. It’s quick to make, universally enjoyed, and affordable. The only downside to the usual pasta salad? Gobs of mayo, and overcooked pasta. You’re not going to find...
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Recipe: Not Your Usual Potato Salad
I usually have a photo with each recipe, but for some reason, I’ve never taken one of this potato salad! So, if you make this recipe and send me a good photo, I’ll post it here and give you photo...
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Recipe: Mexican Cornbread Muffins
I am not a baker. Really. So why did I tackle cornbread muffins? Because I had a fabulous idea for a Mexican-style muffin, and I wasn’t going to let my fear of baking stop me! Here is the scoop: this...
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Recipe: Fresh Corn Salsa
There are so many variations of “salsa” that the word can mean almost anything, at this point. I’m calling this dish salsa, although “relish” and just plain “salad” would have worked, too! Now that we...
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Recipe: Basil-Sunflower Seed Pesto
As a kid, my family spent some time living in Northern Italy. Since everything is so close together in Europe, we were able to travel a lot on weekends and get to see a great deal of the area around...
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Recipe: No-mayo Kohlrabi Cabbage Coleslaw
My sister and I used to sneak Hellman’s mayo and lettuce sandwiches when we were kids… ahh, a little salt, a little pepper, on some good bread, it was the best. I cannot deny loving me some Hellman’s...
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Recipe: Korma ~ Vegetable Curry with Coconut
I am a lucky girl. Hawk Dance Farm ~ Hillsdale NY I live in the foothills of the Berkshires, surrounded by farms of all types — produce (veggies, fruits, herbs), pasture-raised meats, apple orchards,...
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