Thanksgiving is a time to share with family and friends, and I really want to share with you and to Give Thanks for being such great supporters of my cookbook and my website. I really hope you are enjoying the diverse recipes and stories in The Portside Cuisine Cookbook, and are recommending my cookbook and blog to […]
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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, […]