I’ve gotten my love of good food and my talent for cooking from my Mom and Grandmother as I’ve told you over and over. This dessert was one of my Mom’s. The funny part of this story has to do with my Mom’s second husband! I never warmed up to my Mom’s second husband. My […]
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Mom, Dad, The Baths on Virgin Gorda, Meatloaf and a Glass of Chianti
When you live on a tropical Caribbean island, you tend to get a lot of visitors. My Mom and Dad were always amongst my favorites. My Dad had a tendency to get a bit queasy, so we always coordinated their visits with very close island friends, Jerry and Lisa, making a trip home to New […]
Cornish Hens, at Anchor on the Back Side of Tortola and the Green Flash
Big green flash” by Brocken Inaglory – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. I’ve done a lot of sailing vacations with friends and family, and quite a few with my dearest friends Pam and Dan. We actually had a sailing vacation every year for almost a decade! They are some of […]
A Winter Dinner Party with Friends…
with a Roasted Beef Tenderloin with a Caesar Crust Every year in late January, I have a dinner party for my very close “snow bird” friends, and of course, a few of my besties from South Florida. This dinner’s motive is to bring us all back together for the winter season with good food, wine, […]
Roasted Cipollini Onions with Balsamic Vinegar
Cipollini (pronounced chip oh LEE nee) literally translates into “little onion” in Italy, hence their popular name. Cipolla is the Italian name for onion. These are also called small onions or wild onions. They taste and look like a small flattened onion, but in fact, they are the bulb of the grape hyacinth. The bulb […]
The Thanksgiving Cruise from Hell
Way back in the early 1990’s, we decided to take the long Thanksgiving weekend and sail over to the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico with some friends and of course, Kali, the tortoiseshell cat that you heard about in some earlier Hurricane Hugo blogs. The plan was to take the approximate ½ day sail over, […]
The Tortellini Tag Team
My Grandmother immigrated to the U.S. as a young mother from Bracigliano, a town in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of Southwestern Italy and just below the Bay of Naples. My Grandparents left Italy hoping for a better life for their growing family as so many did. They arrived through Ellis Island […]
Broiled Shrimp Piccata Scampi
Piccata and Scampi are two different recipes, each incorporating garlic, butter and parsley in each of their recipes respectively. Let’s discuss piccata first. There is no known origin of the term piccata in Italy, and most Italian authorities believe the sauce was termed in the U.S. in the 1930’s by Italian Americans. The method called […]
Cherry and Ginger Soup at Dinner for Two in Santa Fe, New Mexico
You know how once in a great while, you happen upon an exceptional restaurant and your experience with the food you enjoyed there remains in your brain and on your taste buds for weeks. Well, that was what I experienced recently while there on vacation visiting a very dear lifetime friend. We had just taken […]
Pasta with Sauce Bolognese
I’ve done a little research to give you an accurate and succinct background on the origins of a Ragù alla Bolognese. A Bolognese sauce is an Italian meat-based sauce served with egg pasta which originated in the northern Italian city of Bologna. In Italian cuisine, this sauce is traditionally used to sauce a tagliatelle and […]