Menu ideas and recipes for soft shell crabs, greens, speckled sea trout, pecans, veggies and sourdough Softies Soft shell crab season is here! Oh, how I love these delectable creatures. I keep it simple—butter, lemon and parsley. Our veggie: greens, the usual Thursday/Friday side now that it’s CSA season. This time, the mix included kale, …
If I bake only one pie for Christmas this year, this is it. It’s been a few years since I made a maple pecan pie. I used to always follow the Fanny Farmer (aka Marion Cunningham) recipe and it was fine. But this! This is freaking fabulous. God bless the cooking geeks in America’s Test …
Bundt cakes, up to now, have made me nervous. I slather butter into the dips and peaks of the pan. I flour the pan if the recipe calls for it. But too many times, when I turn the cake out onto a plate, parts of it stay behind, stuck to the pan. This time would …
A few weeks ago, we got two small bulbs of fennel and a pretty head of radicchio in our CSA share from In Good Heart Farm. The radicchio was a pale green head with flecks of cranberry, not the usual cranberry head with veins of white. I had just seen this salad recipe from The …
Grabbing the Gusto 