Menu ideas and recipes for soft shell crabs, pasta carbonara, tilefish, blackfin tuna, tuna salad, greens, strawberries, asparagus and gnocchi Softie season The highlight of the week (in the non-pasta department) was soft shell crabs. I love when these exquisite creatures show up in my fish share. I cook them simply: dredge in flour, pan-fry …
Menu ideas and recipes for crab, macaroni and cheese, speckled sea trout, chermoula, fish fillets, black beans and strawberries Special macaroni and cheese Delicious Miss Brown on the Food Network made crab macaroni and cheese a few weekends ago. I was entranced so ordered a pound of lump crab from Locals Seafood along with my …
Today’s post isn’t so much a recipe as a suggestion. It’s hot here. Damn hot. 97 degrees hot. And since I live in the beautiful state of North Carolina that means it’s humid too. I don’t go through the moisturizer like I did in my sweet old city of Sacramento CA where 97 degrees wasn’t …
I’ve often wondered whether it’s a myth that local honey can reduce allergy symptoms. Unfortunately, according to University of Connecticut Health Center researchers, it is a myth. However, I’ve learned from my friend Jimmy Chalmers, a honey beevangelist, that there are many other advantages to buying local honey. It may not cure your allergies but you’re …
I can’t stop buying strawberries! They’re difficult to resist, especially when North Carolina strawberries are in the market. Plus, May is Strawberry Month in North Carolina so I must celebrate and support my local industry. My skin should be turning pink. I add strawberries to breakfast cereal, toast with ricotta cheese and frozen banana smoothies. …
I hope you don’t mind my penchant for Japan stories. I’m sure you understand. A sake brewery representative went on YouTube this week to ask the Japanese people to support tsunami-affected breweries like his by buying their sake for the annual cherry blossom celebrations. Otherwise “secondary economic damage” could result if people heed the Tokyo …
Grabbing the Gusto 