If you read the Fruitcake Bread Pudding post, you already know that I hate to waste, and that, to avoid wasting an ingredient, I’ll make something I don’t need. I bought way too much heavy cream this year. I have one cookie recipe that calls for two tablespoons of heavy cream. That’s it – two […]
I hate to waste. I blame/credit my mother. I do not have any memory of ever throwing out food at my childhood home. Every now and then some milk would go sour, and even then, rather than just dumping the sour milk, we would find a recipe for it, usually a sour milk chocolate cake. […]
Four years ago I did a travel through holiday cookies post from a condo in Brooklyn (Travel through Holiday Cookies – Auntastasia’s Kitchen). I have not posted much since then as we have been adjusting to having a house that is very much in the country (there’s an introduction to the house and “our” bear […]
It has been week/month/year (or more) for a lot of people. Folks are dealing with all sorts of things. Does anyone else remember that “I’d like to buy the world a Coke” commercial from the ’70s. Rather than buying the world a Coke, my choice would be to make everyone soup. With apologies to my […]
If anyone remembers the post that started this blog, I started writing about food because I missed having people at my table sharing food, wine, and stories. Since I have been able to cook for guests again, I have been writing less. I am trying to catch up with writing about some actual gatherings. Recently, […]
Greetings. It has been way too long since I have posted any recipes. I have been doing a little cooking, doing a lot of the work that pays the bills, and spending as much time as possible with one big change. This post is about that change, a new place in the country that is […]
In addition to regional food traditions, Italy has a significant cultural food tradition – Italy’s Jewish food. I thought I had the cookbook The Classic Cuisine of the Italian Jews somewhere, but apparently I don’t. I do know that I have given it as a gift, and I received my copy of Cucina Ebraica as […]
I have been thinking for a while about whether I could create cookies shaped like martini glasses that taste like a martini. The whole concept started with one of my most popular Christmas cookies that friends call the “gin” cookie because of the juniper berry frosting. For the cookie base, I started with a basic […]
It took a lot longer than I expected when I started down this path of “traveling” to every region of Italy through food. When this began, I had this notion I would start in the North West and move through the regions in a logical fashion as if we were actually traveling. Obviously that didn’t […]
This is it, this is the last destination of my attempt to cook something from each of the twenty regions in Italy. And no, I’m not going to start trying to do each province within the regions next. Molise ended up last for a few reasons. I’ve never been there. I know very little about […]