Flounder hot off the grill! How many of you adore eating fish but are longing for ways that are quick and easy and would love to add a new zing to just a regular old piece of grilled fish with EVOO, salt and pepper? And how many of you have a refrigerator full of various condiments that take up … [Read More...]
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Sunny Golds with Bacon Pasta Sauce
Finished Sunny Golds with Bacon Pasta Sauce on Spaghetti. It’s summertime and the living should be easy, right? Well in this Covid/ pandemic time, nothing seems easy. But I hope this super simple, … [Read More...]
Green sauce
So, I had read this article/rough recipe about green sauces in Food and Wine magazine just a few days ago and I thought I would try this myself! I have so many greens and herbs in my garden, and I had … [Read More...]
What We Should Be Eating & Making Now
So, I have been trying out new recipes for you BUT, I haven’t found any that are great enough to share with you. They just aren’t and I’m sorry I haven’t had the time to fuss with them to make them … [Read More...]
Garlic Scape Pesto
Summertime means pesto time, right? Usually it is basil for me but my friend Lainne at Ethel and Tom’s farm stand in Red Hook told me that Kim, from Second Chance Farm was buying bunches and bunches … [Read More...]
Veal Milanese – or Pork
Veal Milanese with Mizuna salad topping. My late husband (Why do they call it late? He’s not coming back, unfortunately, so he’s not late for anything.) would always order this dish – Veal Milanese … [Read More...]
Pasta with Shiitake Mushrooms & Peas in a Light Cream Sauce
This Pasta with Shiitake Mushrooms & Peas in a Light Cream Sauce is a quick and easy dish - perfect for an al fresco lunch or dinner. When I lived in Italy, I would make this dish with … [Read More...]
Banana Bread
Covid Banana Bread! Zooming... I was Zooming with my friend Sherry the other day and told her about this new Banana Bread recipe that I had just concocted and shared through a mailbox delivery … [Read More...]
Grilled Potato Salad
Potato Salad signals summer is here – right? And there are many potato salad recipes out there – with mayo, or sour cream or German style that’s warm with vinegar and the list goes on. But I … [Read More...]
Rhubarb Crisp for an Easy Memorial Day Dessert
It’s the season! I adore rhubarb and right now it is in season! This rhubarb crisp recipe is perfect for an easy Memorial Day Dessert, so you can still relax. Because the recipe has all the … [Read More...]
Pasta all’Amatraciana
This dish, Pasta all’Amatraciana gives me great joy to make and is so full of amazing memories. You see, when I ran off to Italy by myself for two 3-month periods after Steve passed, I would fly into … [Read More...]
Dinner
Summer cocktails
I love cocktails! I usually like basic strong stuff. I grew up with this big family of males and somehow I thought I needed to show them that I could drink too. I will never forget when my oldest … [Read More...]
MSI Shares the Love – Giveaway and Fantastic Crispy Potatoes!!
A handful of our wonderful investors in MARY’s secret ingredients crowdfunding campaign were also avid subscribers so they said they didn’t need their boxes (duplicates) from the campaign. So we would … [Read More...]
Appetizers
POURfect Measuring Beaker with Roquefort Dressing for Baked Crispy Wings
POURfect products are simply perfect - in the words of my good friend, Margaret! She calls this a handy-dandy measuring cup, because it is easier to see the point on the cup where the surface of … [Read More...]
Our Life Now and The Best Hummus Recipe
My husband has renal cell carcinoma. There. I said it. It's in his right kidney, a tumor that has grown out of the kidney and invaded about 20% of his liver, and 3 lymph nodes nearby. Our … [Read More...]
