Menu ideas for chicken, prosciutto, sage, striped bass, kale, sweet potatoes, shrimp, pizza, and oysters Chicken saltimbocca I haven’t had chicken saltimbocca in I don’t know how long, so I bought some prosciutto and provolone, picked some sage, and followed a recipe from Leite’s Culinaria. I didn’t have semolina, so I used flour instead, and …
Menu ideas and recipes for pizza, linguiça, canned clams, tilefish, collards and kohlrabi Birthday pizza! My birthday fell on a Tuesday this year. Plain regular Tuesday. I was planning to work as usual but then thought, what the heck, this is the one day of the year that’s my day. I’ll take the day off. …
Recipes and menu ideas for a summer Indian dinner, yellowfin tuna, peach andouille basil flatbread and blackened amberjack (or other hearty fish). Fighting the heat with Indian food When the temps are in the 90s, I like meals with fresh, spicy, bold flavors like Vietnamese, Thai, Mexican or Indian. On a hot night recently I …
Give cauliflower crust pizza a try– a great way to replace bread with vegetables, a no-guilt pizza recipe. ~~ I’m fully on board with the cauliflower craze. Cauliflower Faux Fried Rice is now a standard in our house when I’m making something Chinese for dinner. And whoever invented cauliflower cream sauce deserves some kind of …
Geppetto’s Pizza Bianca is the best white pizza recipe you’ll ever come across — fontina cheese, garlic, shallots and herbs on a fabulous thin crust. ~~~ Back in the ’80s and ’90s I was the general manager of Geppetto Restaurant in Bethesda MD. I was young at the time, in my 20s when I took …
Goodnight Irene goodnight. I bet we’re all breathing a sigh of relief that Irene wasn’t as damaging as first feared. The North Carolina coast did take a beating. Folks on the coast will soon tire of the sound of chainsaws and the lack of power. Our lights flickered but never went out. Our house is …
Grabbing the Gusto 